A small team building measurable, living-room-ready infrastructure.
BLOCK VECTOR Technologies, LLC is an early-stage company designing the NODE ER-series: a furniture-grade rack and testbed where Bitcoin full nodes, miners, and networking gear can be deployed, measured, and explained without hiding in a back room.
Based in the U.S. • Focusing on transparent methods, reproducible builds, and applied measurement.
Why a furniture-grade micro data center?
NODE started with a simple question: what if the thing that looks like a piece of furniture in the living room was, in fact, a serious test rig? Instead of hiding noisy, messy hardware in a closet, BLOCK VECTOR designed around the reality of homes, small offices, and classrooms.
From home labs to NODE
Like many engineers, BLOCK VECTOR’s founder has spent years running “temporary” gear on folding tables and wire racks. Those setups are great for tinkering, but hard to explain to non-technical audiences—and even harder to document in a way that grants and partners can reuse.
NODE takes that same hardware—Raspberry Pi 5 boards, Bitaxe and NerdMiner units, ER-series routers—and gives it a repeatable home: a 12U wooden cabinet designed for real rooms, not just server closets.
Documentation first
A big part of BLOCK VECTOR’s work happens in the documentation layer. The NODE platform is being built alongside a documentation suite so that others can:
- Recreate the cabinet and testbed in their own spaces.
- Understand the assumptions behind each test run.
- Map hardware choices to measured outcomes.
- Include NODE builds and data in proposals, classes, and reports.
Practical engineering, measured results.
BLOCK VECTOR sits at the intersection of home labs, professional networking, and grant-aligned documentation. The company’s process is straightforward: build carefully, measure honestly, and write things down in a way others can reuse.
- Favor hardware and layouts that real people can actually deploy.
- Instrument power, temperature, and networking from the beginning.
- Design for clear isolation between management, nodes, miners, and labs.
- Use small, understandable building blocks over magic black boxes.
- Write for both practitioners and reviewers: fewer buzzwords, more diagrams.
- Keep build steps and test procedures versioned and traceable.
- Align figures and datasets with what grants and STEM programs expect to see.
- Leave room for collaborators to add their own modules, sensors, and analysis.
From concept to grant-ready platform.
NODE is intentionally being developed in stages, so hardware, test procedures, and documentation stay synchronized. That makes it easier for partners and grantors to see where their piece fits.
- 2024 Early concept work: cabinet sketches, hardware selection, and first versions of the NODE manual.
- 2025 Refinement of the ER-series rack layout, multi-WAN design, and internal tooling (spreadsheets, configurators, and documentation templates).
- 2026 Target window for a fully instrumented prototype NODE ER-series cabinet, plus supporting testbed and grant-aligned documentation.
- Beyond Potential expansion into additional NODE variants, classroom kits, and small fleets for labs, makerspaces, and pilot programs.
If you’re a grantor, educator, or technical partner interested in measured, repeatable infrastructure you can put in a real room, BLOCK VECTOR would be glad to talk about where NODE might fit.