[drum55]

Just be aware that you’ll be stuck with wifi, or spending far more on ethernet adapters for them. If you want cheap with ethernet there’s other devices supported by Arabian in the same price range which have ethernet. It’s fun for sure to have a huge number of very cheap machines, I have an old arm cluster made of Odroid boards for that purpose.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I actually think I can run network over the USB connections to the head node anyways, though WiFi is also fine.

Actually, you raise a good point: I should spend some time browsing the Armbian supported hardware list...

[reerdna]

Wanted to reply to you directly also to increase the chance you see this because I think I had exactly the same intrusive thought as you, and actually built such a cluster recently. Would love to hear what you think: https://x.com/andreer/status/2007509694374691230/photo/1