Cruiser use cases
A Gigabit PoE+ switch, 2.5GbE uplink, NVMe, SATA and an ESP32-C6 radio on one board for a Raspberry Pi CM5.
An all-in-one camera site
Switch, recorder storage and compute on one board. Plug cameras into the PoE+ ports, record to SATA or NVMe and run the VMS you choose.
- 8 Gigabit PoE+ ports on Cruiser, 4 on Cruiser Lite
- 2x SATA with hardware RAID (DIP switch) or Linux software RAID, plus M.2 NVMe
- Bring the VMS your customers already use
Read the post: The DeskPi 2U Case: A Purpose-Built Home for the Cruiser
An edge AI box
Put a Hailo-8 accelerator in the M.2 slot and run detection next to the cameras, on a Raspberry Pi CM5, without sending video off site.
- M.2 Key-M (PCIe Gen 2 x1) for a Hailo-8 or an NVMe SSD
- PoE+ cameras on the same board
- Raspberry Pi CM5 compute
A homelab rack node
A PoE+ switch, 2.5GbE uplink and mirrored storage in one mini-rack slot, powered from a single 48V supply.
- 2.5GbE uplink to the rest of the rack
- Fits a desktop mini rack in the DeskPi 2U case, or stands alone in the Cruiser Desktop Case
- Add an Interceptor PoE Board for 8 more PoE ports (10/100)
Read the post: The Cruiser and the Mini Rack: One Board to Run It All
