ARM yourselves! The Compute Blade is here. 

As a datacenter operator -> This blade format is amazing, we are getting close to commercial viability to offer RPis as dedis.

Ivan is a model for me. He shares A LOT on twitter and I hope he gets a lot of backers not only because he is a nice guy but because it's worth it too :)

Love the thumbnail 😁 And yes, the Compute Blades are really cool, makes me wish I had a use case for them

I've been eagerly awaiting hearing about this again. Also, feels good to see Jeff back at home healthy making videos. Good to have you back my guy.

"Jeff's On!" - And it's not even my birthday!!! 🙂 - Cheers! - Judson & Buddy !!!

24 Seconds in and I'm reminded to why I freaking love Jeff 😂 - comedy, wholesomeness, tech, and genuineness. Jeff, you're the whole package man! Much love!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. A rack of these (or something like them) would be fantastic in a classroom. Each student gets access to their own over the network and any work they do on it lives in isolation from the others.

I adapted Ivan's 3D printable Raspberry Pi cluster for my mini 3-Pi CI cluster. I'm pleased he still innovating in the field. This one looks sweet.

thumbnail/title game is good

While you were out at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I computed the blade

This module definitely looks like a new blade standard. Fantastic!

Man, these things are just so cool. I have this wet dream on using cephfs and docker swarm on these to create my own cloud for my gaming community / close friends so that we can finally have a proper shared platform where we can hang out and help each other with things in life. So cool...

LMAO What the hell is that thumbnail?! Hahaha, 10/10 on it bro I love it so much. Edit: Oh my gosh, it just hit me that you mocked it over Blade from the movies, aptly named Blade

Nice thumbnail :-) Cool product, even if it's not for me.

These look like a ton of fun for a home lab if the CM availability improves like we're hoping. Even with the relatively high cost it seems like a great way to learn and play around with a lot of concepts.

Jeff, thank you for sharing such useful information; I usually keep up with your videos to learn about all the latest Pi info. You rock!

So happy you seem to be bouncing back well! AND of course for pairing up with Ivan to get even more news about this amazing #ComputeBlade out to the masses! As always, thanks so much for what you do - and can't WAIT to get me some of these!!!

Interesting! Good to see you back and at work. Looks like you recovered ok from surgery. I hope it gave you a break! Good Luck!

Glad your well after the op matey

Great video Jeff! I've been following Ivan's journey on Twitter and this video brings it all together!

With so many blades, this video is sharp!

Things just keep getting better!

Thanks for the pre-recorded video, wish you recovery going smooth and back in a better shape.

Very nice thumbnail hehe. Trying to get a pi zero w 1 so I can have it auto inject PS4 Hen 9.00 without me having to get up and put a usb in it after every start up. Unfortunately, chip production not go brrrrrr until Q2 or something

That physical security on the TPM is amazing

Best thumbnail and title ever! And really great coverage of cool tech too :D

Ivan is the reason there are no raspberry pi 4 compute modules in stock 😂

These blade modules remind of "isolinear chips" on Star Trek: TNG. They were smaller than these, but the shape is very similar. :)

I watched this yesterday. But I just noticed the thumbnail for the video. Looks GREAT!

Amazing work and progress from the early design. Totally interested.. looking forward to have a chance to have them ...

Very cool project! Thanks for the summary Jeff

This looks awesome. I shelved a blade style project awhile back because of these, so Ill have a pick a couple up. I have 5 CM4s that have been sitting in a drawer for a few years just waiting to be used.

I’m jealous you got them already. Can’t wait I have been signed up since your first debuted them.

Awesome! I think I might have to work a miracle so I can get a dev board. Good to see you're feeling better. Hope everything is healing and going well.

I would not worry that much about the heatsink machining, those seem to be die castings (note the rough surface everywhere, if they were machined they would be smooth) so it's probably affordable enough for mass production.

Your thumbnail game is insane... haha Great video as well! Can't wait to see what all you do with these while I struggle to keep up with what's going on 😂

This is an insane project D: also as someone who has taken CNC programming classes and am almost done, as long as you have the model right, it wouldn’t be too hard to machine at all. I saw another user mention it’s probably casted from a mold. That would probably help with the cost quite a bit.

The thumbnail - I just can’t…. Lol - awesome video, thanks for the info!!

I have been looking forward to these for so long!!! I am ready to back 16 Dev Boards!

that thumbnail is so good oh mah gawd. also I love watching these so much, I can't wait till I'm moved out and have my own router so I can set up a pi-hole

Good to see you back at videos man! I can see that classic Crohnie fatigue look on your face though. Make sure you are looking after yourself still bud. Remember we can wait for videos! Go at your own pace. Don’t try to beat the algorithm. Love the work. ❤

Although this is beyond my ability to understand but it looks so satisfying, Thanks Jeff

Good to see you back on your feet and looking healthy bro, keep up the good work. As for the Blade ... #wishlist!

Glad to see a new video from you Jeff, hope the tummy is treating you well.

I want to buy one just to kick the tires! Thanks Jeff. I have the BigTreeTech combo and while it hasn’t delivered the results I was hoping for it has been a good test of how low I can go for the use case I have on a Pi.

I want Been waiting SO LONG for a product like this!

And I was of course desperately waiting for this!

I came because of the thumbnail. A++ work my friend. Video was good too.

Awesome news. I was following his blog and it looked like he was going to shelf it and do something else and forgot about them. I definitely want some of those if they make production. If I was better at circuit design and had time: I always wanted a backplane built that each pi blade socket has power and ethernet. The power, cooling, and ethernet are ran by a chassis controller MCU blade with a backup of course. The CM4 cluster boards you showed do what I want but want it as a chassis with hot swap slots for lots of blades. I work in telco so I am thinking in those design. Every cell tower today needs a shelf of compute and networking blades inside to run it. The scalable power of ARM may be an interesting way to get compute with better power efficiency in our ever-growing concerns of energy consumption.

Feels good to see Jeff back and feeling good enough for some honest to goodness ninja turtles action

What a great product, what a great video!

I’m excited to try one of these(or more) I’ve been on the hunt for cm4 for a while now.

Nice work on the thumbnail! And I’m very excited for any future OCP Time Card content. If I can afford any special board that pairs it with a CM4 and the Time Card and a Pi Camera that’d be a dream for me and my time lapse camera project.

The heatsink looks really easy to make, actually. Not machined at all, just as-cast, masked, and anodized, with thermal pads rather than paste to accommodate the roughness. The clones' incompatibility with the heatsink is another strike against them.

Glad to see you have the energy and ability to jump around 👍

Hi Jeff! Delightful as always. I hope today is a good one for you :-)

A video an monday from you and the week is saved :)

Great video again, thank you. Now i go back on my DTH22 sensor and python.

Acknowledging the effort put into the thumbnail 👌

Agreed on the Pine ecosystem. They’re doing some great cutting edge stuff, but there’s quite a learning curve there.

This is your best thumbnail yet

HSM module looks awesome!! 👍👍👍

that fancy fan board is cool

is good to see you back in the basement, this blade pi looks pretty cool

ive been curious to updates on this for a while. being patient yet keeping an eye out if it gets to release. im so glad this project didnt stop at all. while there's no likely usecase for me for rackmounting (with how expensive cases are, let alone machining or 3d printing custom io panbels and such as i dont have much other choice here), i do see alot for low power clusters indeed. i might try a setup with somepi blades in a 10inch network rack once the cm4 (or compatible boards that work in it) get available more readily without the current price gauging. have a asrock deskmeet in a 19" 4U rackmount (should fit with custom mount when i checked the size of it) for network based vr streaming rig using wake on lan together with using the pi4 cluster for: 1) Wake on lan for diverse machines / virtual servers 2) smb server using 2TB m.2 ssd 3) setup / config / disk archiving with sync to a hdd nas 4) pi-hole 5) snort packet inspector 6) home assistant 7) cctv system using wireless esp32-cam modules on their own vlan 8) vlans to iolate network traffic from home automation, hdd archiver to nas, and isolate guest access as well. 9) a self hosted moonrider (beatsaber x audiosurf, made with nodejs) instance 10) own vpn that i can connect my phone, and such to that all traffic still goes through my pi-hole to block ad networks. right now i have most of the things realized in a ryzen 2600 pc i have with proxmox. but power efficiency is fdar from ideal (even tho i dont pay my electricity, i don't wanna throw efficiency out of window cuz of it preferably) tldr, its a nice option to dive into for my usecases as side project, but no high priority for now. also, glad to see you're back at making content again :D

Seems like a ton of effort put into these!😮

I don't need an ARM server, but damn does the blade look hot!

Wow. Great video.

The thumbnail is glorious

Excellent video name!

Cool. The only "improvement" I would make is to offer a version of the chassis specifically designed for 2U, keep the blades the exact same, but stack them 2 high. That way you can use a single fan 4 times the size of those ones - more airflow and quieter. I'm not sure what the extent of the market for such a solution is, but just knowing it exists is cool.

Was looking at these as a possible for multiple sdrs but the lack of rear facing USB was a killer. Might still get a few for things like my pbx

The lack of compute module stock (Rasp Pi or otherwise, they're all having stock issues) will seriously stunt sales for stuff like this... I'd love a set of 4 with some 8GB Rpi4s :(

hey jeff, hope you are doing well thats all. just wanted to let you know that im glad you are uploading again and the thumbnail is pretty funny :D

yo dawg, that thumbnail was gold, again

JEFF I recently saw a fan on a chip! Solid state no moving parts semiconductor based fan! Coming out in products near the end of '23.

Ivan’s the man. Been watching his stuff on Instagram… Good stuff.

The compute blades are the closest thing that what I need in CM4 carrier board. They're fully featured. And I can't wait to get my hands on them. /chef's kiss

Nice. I watched Explaining Computers' video yesterday and I gotta say Rock Pi 4's performance is quite impressive for an SBC

Those heat sinks would be easy to machine: The workpiece mounts on a jig with four posts through the mounting holes. Run program 1, flip, run program 2, done.

Ready to order these once online

Every now and then you come up with a thumbnail masterpiece.

Cant wait!

Best thumbnail ever

Wesley Snipes just turned in his grave...

Hilarious that I just asked you about the RK3588 CM5.

lol the thumbnail is awesome! :P

I’d love getting a few of those and building a cluster but i don’t have much hope for snagging CM 4 with 8GB of RAM. Heck, I ordered the very expensive Turing Pi 2 and I don’t think I’ll be able to fill that one either. 😢 Either way great video and exciting product (if it wasn’t for the reality we live in)

cant wait to have my dream kubernetes cluster

Getting data from RAM or a TPM chip with a physical attack usually involves flooding the computer you're attacking with liquid nitrogen, then unplugging, and quickly placing electrodes or putting the ram into a specialised reader. Law enforcement does it quite often this way when they raid houses.

Really cool stuff

Nice to see you getting healthier again. :) ♥

I really dig that thumbnail.

Man, those things are slicker than snot on a doorknob!

The cover video is amazing 🤣

I think it would also be interesting to see how these sbc work under OpenBSD

I love the thumbnail :D

When will it come out? I'm tuning in every week and waiting. Personally, I think it's the best solution.

Ohhhhhh. This looks amazing!!! I work in a data center environment and love blade formats... If only you could have a chassis with a backplane that connectected then all with built in switch hardware and single config interface... Maybe a blank spot in the market to create???

That may or may not be the best title ever.