🧪 This is a TEST article. It exists only to preview how the Blog feature looks and behaves. The story below is illustrative, not a real build report — please delete the file blog/2026-09-20-five-lessons-10-inch-rack.md after testing.

✍️ This post was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by the DeskPi team before publishing. It shares personal build experience — treat it as a story, not a specification sheet.

Last month one of our engineers finally moved a small pile of Raspberry Pi boards from a desk drawer into a proper RackMate T1 10-inch rack. The build itself took an afternoon; the planning took longer, and that is exactly the point of this post. Here are the five lessons that saved us the most time — plus the two mistakes we made anyway.

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A quick meta note for the curious: this wiki is organized around one question — you have a board, what fits it? Everything else hangs off that.

The four shelves of the wiki​

• Product pages — one page per case, rack and accessory, each with specifications, package lists and assembly steps.
• The compatibility matrix — the single most-linked page on the site, because "will it fit?" beats "what is it?" most days.
• Guides — longer narratives like the RackMate build guide that walk through a whole project instead of one product.
• Support pages — the troubleshooting and downloads sections that catch whatever the product pages do not cover.

Why a blog, then?​

Product pages have to stay factual and stable: a specification is either right or it is not. Experiences, build stories and lessons learned do not fit that format — they are opinionated, dated and conversational. Giving them a separate stream keeps the reference pages clean while still letting us share what we learn. That is exactly the split you are looking at now.

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✍️ This post was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by the DeskPi team before publishing.

We keep an eye on the questions that land in our support inbox, and a clear pattern shows up: most confusion about compact racks comes from the same five places. Here they are, with pointers into the wiki where the full answers live.