{"slug": "hands-on-with-raspberry-pi-s-cm5-programming-jig", "title": "Hands-on with Raspberry Pi's CM5 Programming Jig", "summary": "Jeff Geerling tested Raspberry Pi's CM5 Programming Jig, a tool designed to simplify flashing Raspberry Pi OS to multiple Compute Module 5 units, addressing the tedious process of plugging modules into carrier boards and managing imaging software for clusters of four or more Pis.", "body_md": "In the before-times, when Raspberry Pi CM5s were (relatively) affordable, I built a number of Pi clusters ([example](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-regret-building-3000-pi-ai-cluster/)), and one of the most annoying parts of the build was flashing Raspberry Pi OS to all the Pis.\n\nOne, two, or even three Pis isn't a big deal, but once you hit 4+, the process of plugging the Compute Module into a carrier board, plugging that into a computer, managing Raspberry Pi Imager, and trying to match up details like a hostname, MAC address, and the physical Pi itself, gets annoying.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hands-on-with-raspberry-pi-s-cm5-programming-jig", "canonical_source": "https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/cm5-programming-jig/", "published_at": "2026-08-19 07:13:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-19 07:40:50.232640+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Raspberry Pi", "Jeff Geerling", "CM5 Programming Jig", "Raspberry Pi OS", "Raspberry Pi Imager"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hands-on-with-raspberry-pi-s-cm5-programming-jig", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hands-on-with-raspberry-pi-s-cm5-programming-jig.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hands-on-with-raspberry-pi-s-cm5-programming-jig.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hands-on-with-raspberry-pi-s-cm5-programming-jig.jsonld"}}