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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: <bp@www.zefox.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Seeking cable management ideas.... Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:56:09 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: <v4av7p$1emoc$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:56:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="01961fe6d76ef4ad175dba2acf93dcdc"; logging-data="1530636"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19aqOZh0sc7LXmOY0ljWbXJQZFnO+RT75s=" Summary: What's the best way to hide overlong cables? Keywords: cable management compute cluster User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (FreeBSD/14.0-RELEASE-p6 (arm64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e7rT6x33Wt07oqknrqXXRU2PrUc= Bytes: 2269 Has anybody come up with an inexpensive way of organizing cables among groups of Raspberry Pi hosts? The problem tends to be power supplies. Most come with a fairly long cord and coiling it results in a sort of bird's nest. Shortening it might be possible for the older Pi's, but probably not for the later USB-C models. Stock length cables are better a foot long than an inch short, so in the end they're all at least a little too long. Adding usb-serial adapters for monitoring serial consoles, powered usb hubs for external disks and the disks themselves makes for a very confusing and hard-to-trace nightmare. It's all made worse by a need to individually remove and replace hosts and components without disturbing others. For example, when testing suspect components. More than once I've unplugged the wrong Pi to hard reset a stalled host. There's a very old photo at http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/pi_cluster. Now the tangle has grown to seven Pi's plus a few hubs and drives. The network cables were re-routed but USB and power remain a mess. I'm working on a cleanup while waiting for the new Pi5 to arrive, but progress isn't impressive. Has anybody come up with a way to make the excess cable "dissapear" while preserving the ability to change connections? Thanks for reading, and any ideas.... bob prohaska