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   Has anybody come up with an inexpensive way of organizing cables   
   among groups of Raspberry Pi hosts? The problem tends to be power   
   supplies. Most come with a fairly long cord and coiling it results   
   in a sort of bird's nest. Shortening it might be possible for the   
   older Pi's, but probably not for the later USB-C models. Stock   
   length cables are better a foot long than an inch short, so in the   
   end they're all at least a little too long.   
      
   Adding usb-serial adapters for monitoring serial consoles, powered   
   usb hubs for external disks and the disks themselves makes for a   
   very confusing and hard-to-trace nightmare.   
      
   It's all made worse by a need to individually remove and replace   
   hosts and components without disturbing others. For example, when   
   testing suspect components. More than once I've unplugged the wrong   
   Pi to hard reset a stalled host.   
      
   There's a very old photo at http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/pi_cluster.   
   Now the tangle has grown to seven Pi's plus a few hubs and drives.   
   The network cables were re-routed but USB and power remain a mess.   
   I'm working on a cleanup while waiting for the new Pi5 to arrive,   
   but progress isn't impressive.   
      
   Has anybody come up with a way to make the excess cable "dissapear"   
   while preserving the ability to change connections?   
      
   Thanks for reading, and any ideas....   
      
   bob prohaska   
      
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