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+title: "Raspberry pi cluster Step 2: Assembling the hardware"
+date: "2014-09-10"
+template: "post"
+category: "Homelab"
+tags:
+  - "raspberry"
+  - "cluster"
+  - "pi"
+description: "Assembling all the parts and creating a cute little cluster"
+disqusId: "3"
+---
+
+So today I finally received the required parts to finish up my Raspberry pi cluster and I was **extremely** excited! To share this excitement with you lot here's a picture of all the parts I'll be using:
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+![picture of all the parts spread on the mat](./media/pi_overview_full.JPG "all the bits!")
+
+I began by building the Raspberry pi "tower", sadly I forgot to take a picture with the DSLR so I only have this one cell image to show you guys:
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+![2 raspberry pis stacked in their cases](./media/sneakpeek2.jpg "rising up!")
+
+On the picture above you can clearly see how the "tower" is being assembled.
+I'm basically using the stand-offs that come included to mount the pi to the bottom plates and then instead of attaching a top plate I attach a bottom plate again. I did have to customize the plates a bit to prevent the pi's from overheating (because there now is pretty much no room between a pi and the top plate).
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+After mounting all 4, the "tower" now looks like this: (oh, I also added SD cards)
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+![a picture of the front, back and side of the tower of pis](./media/pi_sides_prev.jpg "Assembled tower of pis")
+
+Then I attempted to glue the tower to my switch.... Some complications came up though. First I glued my knife to my finger and then my finger to another finger. Once I had successfully managed to glue the tower onto the switch I needed something to apply pressure to let the glue dry. Since I didn't have anything heavy handy I had to improvise. And so I did, in true nerd style:
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+![a mini laptop on top of the cluster to keep some pressure on it](./media//improvising.jpg "balancing a weight.... a netbook")
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+Yes, those are 2 packs of cards (which weren't heavy enough) and an old netbook.
+I went to have dinner while I let the glue dry and when I returned everything was all glued firmly into place.
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+After adding the cables and the usb switch I am left with my beautiful raspberry pi cluster:
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+![front and back of the cluster, all cabled up](./media/pi_front_back_prev.jpg "looking great!")
+
+In my next blog post, I will cover how to install raspbian on a raspberry pi in general and how I plan on cloning the install across all pi's