Sanctuary Systems Launches Sentinel Core Carrier Board
Sanctuary Systems is launching Sentinel Core, an open-hardware mini-ITX carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, heading to crowdfunding on Crowd Supply soon. The board exposes two CM5 connectors, gigabit Ethernet, USB-C, two USB 3.0 ports, dual HDMI, GPIO, 24-pin ATX power, and a full-size PCIe x16 mechanical slot wired as a single PCIe lane. Sanctuary will publish schematics, BOM, and setup scripts under a permissive hardware license.
Key Points
- 1Offers a mini-ITX carrier exposing Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 with full-size PCIe x16 slot and ports
- 2Addresses expandability by adding PCIe but remains limited because CM5 provides a single PCIe lane
- 3Enables practitioners to prototype local LLMs, media transcoding, and custom add-in expansions in open-hardware
Scoring Rationale
Practical open-hardware expansion for CM5 makes Pi more versatile; score limited by CM5's single PCIe lane reducing performance.
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