Some ideas are probably mentioned somewhere but im in a hurry and cant read the entire thread right now (have to leave the house in a few minutes)
Ideas
- Mounting bracket to attach a NUC to the system. Doesnt need to be a hard mount, just a soft bracket to slot it into. Stick with the general form factor for nucs, not the skull canyon (its the only one in that form factor), or make a new standard for the mount and produce specific brackets for each nuc.
- Modular End. I mentioned wanting to design the accordion of eGPU cases a little bit ago, but never had the time. Essentially design the base station for the mITX variants and have a pull out design that allows it to be pulled out on rails to extend the end of the case to allow longer cards and a simple thumb screw or pressure mount to lock it in place.
- Modular PSU support. Some people want a brick, some people want an internal. Find a way to make it a reality. If you do the modular end idea, putting the psu at the end of the case could allow for someone to mount a SFX or a pico psu (their choice) with a selection of mounting bracket for the power inlet.
- USB power off. Make a circuit to control the power to the eGPU. I see quite a few eGPU cases that have a switch to turn off their psu's for if the consumer doesnt need it. A simple power circuit using a usb to check if power is coming from the 5v to turn off or on the eGPU would be a nice addition. Since most usb power starts transmitting as soon as the motherboard turns on or shortly after post, there shouldnt be much issue with boot errors in windows from connecting a GPU too far into the boot sequence.
Thats what i have thought about so far when i was going to make a similar project lol. Hope to see it take off sometime soonish (within the next few months)
