I recently sponsored the development of a carrier board to fill a need I saw within my day job. It is meant to make the raspberry pi a more "naturalized citizen" of the industrial cabinet: -25 to 80c temp range limited by the compute module 9-36V power supply (obviously primarily targeting 12v and ...

Interesting design. As always, a good question is... How much? Also, how does the cost of the blade 'carrier' compare to the cost of populating the extra components directly on the motherboard? (Still keeping the CM and SSD mounted vertically but held only by their vertical mount connectors.) And is...