One Board for an 8-Camera Site: The Interceptor as Switch, Recorder, and Storage
Thursday, October 15, 2026 in Blog
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A typical small camera site, like a dental office, a storefront, or a storage facility, looks something like this: A PoE switch for the cameras. An NVR or a small server to record them. A few drives. Power bricks and patch cables tying it all …
Cruiser Firmware 1.2.0: Zigbee Mode for the Built-in Radio
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 in Blog
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Cruiser boards can now run a Zigbee network. The built-in ESP32-C6 radio gives you a choice of mode: PoE + Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, the stock firmware, or the new PoE + Zigbee firmware, poe-fw 1.2.0. Zigbee mode works on Cruiser Full, Cruiser Lite, and Keel. …
One Board, Your Choice of Module: Interceptor with a CM4, CM5, or Banana Pi CM4
Thursday, October 08, 2026 in Blog
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The Interceptor turns a compute module into a NAS or NVR: five SATA ports with software RAID, a 4-port Gigabit managed switch, and up to 16 PoE+ ports with add-on PoE boards. The same carrier takes the CM4 and the CM5, so you can start on a CM4 and …
The DeskPi 2U Case: A Purpose-Built Home for the Cruiser
Saturday, March 07, 2026 in Blog
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The Cruiser is a Mini-ITX board, but it’s not a typical one. With 8 PoE+ ports, dual SATA, 2.5GbE uplink, HDMI, USB, and barrel jack power, there’s more IO on it than any standard ITX case was designed to accommodate. DeskPi saw that as a …
Why the Cruiser Has Qwiic Instead of RS-485
Wednesday, March 04, 2026 in Blog
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The Interceptor had RS-485. The Cruiser doesn’t. If that sounds like we removed a feature, keep reading. RS-485 is a serial bus. It connects one class of device: industrial controllers, sensors with serial output, Modbus equipment. It requires …
The Cruiser and the Mini Rack: One Board to Run It All
Friday, February 27, 2026 in Blog
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A typical mini-rack lab looks something like this: A Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant. A PoE switch next to it to power everything else. Two power supplies. A handful of cables. It works, but it’s two devices doing a job one device could do. …