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| awallin:
--- Quote from: unitedatoms on January 11, 2020, 02:27:41 am --- 1. LXI … No thank you, I will keep my money for myself and sanity for a real job 2. Desktop PC … No, it is shelf thing, should be small and I have no 8 projects to fill it, only 4 at most. 3. 19 inch Rack … No, it is shelf and very shallow and narrow one. Also there is no that much money I am willing to spend on metal and shipping 4. Arduino … No. Is it even a backplane ? How do you address the shields when you have more than one ? 5. USB hub with star of cables … I already have it and I am not full time writing high level software or Signed Certified Device Drivers, thank you 6. Kamak … Too high, it is named "Crate". I don't live in nuclear bunker next to particle accelerator 7. GPIB … I can possibly build things that can fit inside this connector alone 8. Eurocard … No, the backplane is rigid and pinout is taken for who knows what purposes, but I will take your aluminum profiles for panels with screws if sold for reasonable price. 9. PC104 … No. It looks like very expensive Arduino 10. PCI-Express … No, I am too old to learn FPGA and too poor to pay for identificators or whatever is there involved, I only need few bytes to bit bang 11. Automotive Radio Formfactor … No. Too small to be a crate, too large for single project. 12. Some random HP or Tektronix frame... No the formfactor is there, but size is unyieldy 13. VME .. No. It is vertical and obscure 14. Some other standard I am not aware about … No. Because that is exactly the reason: the fact that I am not aware bout this standard. --- End quote --- 15. CPCI-S https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactPCI_Serial (open hardware backplane there: https://ohwr.org/project/diot-crate-hw/wikis/home) - not sure what the connectors cost? hopefully not too much. They seem to use 220mm or 160mm deep cards, while 100mm would be nicer for small projects and racks. |
| Rerouter:
If you wanted to be a bit of a mad hatter, you could always grab a server drive shelf chassis and re purpose the hard drive sleds into slots for your equiptment, could even replace the backplane with your own |
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