Cluster social Computer - Home Office Hub

I picked up a shelf from the garbage dump.

I will put two monitors ( = a cluster with 2 subordinate units) in the shelf.

I quickly made a sketch.

The top shelf will host the monitor (cyan boyes in the back of top shelf), and I will place a pair of two way mirrors in front of it.  I took the idea from Matt of DIYPERKS. ( see the tilted cyan plates in from of the top shelf)

The Cameras will be placed in the top shelf as Matt showed (green boxes).

On the left side of the camera, at 5 degree Tilt, there will be a e-Ink screen. On the right side will be a pair of clocks, driven by the raspberry -'s GPIO pins. (see the slightly tilted panes at both side of the camera).

The top shelf is divided in two parts. On the divider, we have a status display (yellow pane). This will show, for example, whether both video conference streams are isolated from each other, or whether one stream is being forwarded to the other .. or all kinds of useful information.

I still have to finalize this.

The second shelf will have a keyboard and a mouse and a kvm switch.

Below that, on the third shelf, we will have storage (hard drive and power bricks , blue and maroon ) -  one dedicated to each stream.

The fourth shelf will have the raspberries themselves, one per stream.

Finally on the 5th shelf, we will have the master raspberry connected to my router, and the LAN switch.

This now looks a bit overkill, but it should be good.

I have no shown the wiring in this simple sketch.

Components are ordered, sadly not yet received.

I have been trying to find a proper framework that can work as I want it to.

The service that comes to mind is Jitsi. It seems it has a webRTC based system that I can use : Github Link here.

This now brings me several challenges. I am still studying Jitsi.

Finished High Level Layout

Chosen SBC : Raspberry Pi Zero

Chosen Switch : DLink DES 1008D

Chosen Monitors : Some Dell Monitors Laying around

Chosen Camera : Cheap USB cam

Chosen Microphone : In camera

Chosen RTC : TBD

Chosen Storage : Sandisk 64 GB

Chosen SD Card Reader : TBD

HDMI to DVI converter