Level Up Your Homelab With The Raspberry Pi CM4 Compute Blade

Level Up Your Homelab With The Raspberry Pi CM4 Compute Blade

Today we’re taking a look at the Compute Blade, a rack-mountable PoE carrier board for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. These are designed to allow you to stack up to 20 blades, each carrying a CM4 module, into 1U of 19″ rack space. So you’re able...
Raspberry Pi’s new PoE+ HAT uses too much power!

Raspberry Pi’s new PoE+ HAT uses too much power!

The new PoE+ HAT has some issues, like using almost twice as much power for its own operation as the original PoE HAT. It does supply more power to the Raspberry Pi, but at least for the Pi 3 model B+ and 4 model B, does that even matter? Mentioned in this video:...
Raspberry Pi CM4 Boards arrive! Waveshare PoE and PiTray mini

Raspberry Pi CM4 Boards arrive! Waveshare PoE and PiTray mini

As the new year gets fully underway, commercially-available boards for the Compute Module 4 are finally becoming available! In this video, I talk about two boards I recently received in the mail, the Waveshare Compute Module 4 PoE board, and the Sourcekit PiTray mini....