The Beast!

Hey guys, we're back with a new update on The Beast. We were just at Maker Faire Rome last week, and we had the pleasure of being featured on one of Make's live facebook videos! Take a look at the video below, jump at the 8.00 mark for Resin & Beast!

https://www.facebook.com/makerfaire/videos/10154886222272687/

And here are some cool pics!

Le wild beast appears!

Blinky!

Take a look at Resin.io's tweet for our a colorful GIF of The Beast in action!

Hope you've all been having as much fun reading about The Beast as we have building it! Here's another timelapse video of us setting up the Beast tower by adding the Frames, which are the back-side  of each Tile.

More juicy bits coming soon!

Hey everyone, time for another update! A couple of weeks ago the whole Resin.io team got together to catch up, have some beers, eat some great food, and build a Beast!

If you've ever wondered what 40 people building a cluster of 360 Raspberry Pis looks like*, here's your answer:

*by the way this is a very, very strange and specific thing to wonder about

So, as we said, the first goal was modularity. To that end, The Beast comprises of a number of interlocking modules, called Tiles. A Tile is basically 12 Raspberry Pis, as well as the supporting Networking and Power Supply infrastructure. The Tiles can connect Vertically or Horizontally, which allows us to expand the network as we want. Think of it as computational lego. You add as many blocks as you want, daisy chain them, and it will just work.

Here's what a single Tile looks like:

This particular one has standoffs that allow it to sit cosily on a desk. The same standoffs can be connected together on the top of the tile to form a handle, which makes it amazingly easy to carry a Tile around.

In the next updates, we'll discuss more about the tile, we'll show a working one, and we'll start adding some design files!