3D Printed "Cube" Mini rack

[paulgrove]

3D Printed Cube Mini-rack

I love mini racks! just over a year ago I designed and printed 26 U of 10 inch mini rack and shared the design online on Printables and Thingiverse.

I really hope that Jeff's video and project will bring about more awareness and more products and 3d printable designs to the world.

My Cube rack system is designed to be easy to print - and needs only a 3d printer and a handle full of M6 Cage Nuts to construct.

A constructed frame is a perfect Cube with 5U of usable space on each size, and outer dimensions of 6Ux6Ux6U where 1U on each face makes up the frame itself.

The frames can be stacked in various ways, similar to the mini rack in Jeff's video:

The frame can be used stand alone as just a frame, or additional optional addons can be printed, which include:

• Feet
• Magnetic Side Panels
• Wall Hook Mount

I always intended to make handles for the top of the rack like in the video - but never got around to it :(

Here is a picture of the wall mount/hook and the magnetic side panels:

The side panels come in various designs and can be attached using either magnets or more M6 fixing hardware.

My wall mounted mini-rack in my office:

Currently racked equipment:

• 1u 10" 3 Way Horizontal Power Distribution Unit Strip UK Miniline PDU Rack Mount
• 1U 10" SOHO Cable Management Brush on ebay
• 1U custom 3d printed rpi enclosure for 2 pi's with integrated power - not published as the design has many issues
• 1U Ubiquiti Edgerouter X and some cheap unmanaged 5 port switch in a custom 1U enclosure - not published
• 1U Kauden 12 Port SOHO 10" Patch Panel CAT6 Network Ethernet Rack Mount Data IDC - listing no longer available

I also have a custom 1U plate at the bottom with 8 Cat6 and for incoming power:

With the side panel off you can see how the patching is done internally:

And finally in my loft I have this monstrosity:

Which has the following equipment:

• 1U PDU from old equipment at work - I'm not sure where it's from but its make out of some sort of module box extrusion that I could cut down to size
• A POE injectors sat on top of a switch
• 1U Zyxel 8-Portl Gigabit switch GS1900-8 with 3d printed 10 inch rack mounting ears/thing
• 1U Philips Hub that is now unplugged but still sat in the rack
• 1U custom hotswap hdd bays for my server OS (only 1 ssd populated)
• 3U face mounted GPU (GTX 1070) - see my printable page for all the parts I used to mount that
• 2U Supermicro X10SL7-F LGAS1150 E3-1230L V2 with 32GB ECC - which doesn't really quite fit in the 2U - custom 3d printed mounting plate that can't be removed without taking out all the other equipment first
• 9U containing 3x Startech 5 bay hotswap enclosures (can't find these online anymore - probably discontinued) for my 14 drive (spilt into 2 7 drive RAID-Z2)
• 2U for the server's PSU

I haven't got any photo's, but the back of the rack has rack mounted fans for cooling which are hooked up to the server's fan controller.

You can see the frame holds those heavy 14 drives no problems.

Hope you all like it :D

[paulgrove]

I can't seem to find how to add the build showcase label, if you can for me thanks!

[geerlingguy]

@paulgrove looks amazing! I've added the label, added your showcase to the site, and also added your 3D cube system to the 3D printable section too. Love the simplicity!