Furniture-grade micro data center concept

A 12U ER-Series rack for Bitcoin full nodes, miners, and real-world measurements.

The BLOCK VECTOR ER-Series is a small-footprint, furniture-grade rack system that quietly hides a fully instrumented micro data center inside a warm wooden cabinet.

BLOCK VECTOR Technologies, LLC is building a living-room-ready showcase rack that combines Raspberry Pi 5 full nodes, Bitaxe & NerdMiner clusters, multi-WAN networking, and metered power—without looking like a server room.

12U ER-Series rack • Raspberry Pi 5 full nodes
Bitaxe & NerdMiner test cluster
Multi-WAN & failover network lab

Explore the ER-Series racks Grants, STEM & research

ER-Series 12U layout • Rev 0.2

U12 Network ER707 • 3-WAN router layer
U11 Core Pi 5 full node • primary Bitcoin stack
U10 Dual NVMe storage • chain data & lab datasets
U9 Router / AP test bay • parking spot for whichever router or gateway is under test
U8 Access-point test shelf • AP placement and coverage experiments on the LAN
U7 Mining Bitaxe • ASIC miner test cluster
U6 Mining NerdMiner • low-power teaching & metrics node
U5 AUX sensors & spare shelf • thermals, airflow, and power instrumentation

Active devices: 8 × Raspberry Pi 5, 4 × miners, plus routers, APs, and sensors as needed. Power envelope: < 1.5 kW • Indoor-friendly, RF-aware layout tuned for living-room deployment.

Why the ER-Series rack?

The ER-Series is designed to bridge the gap between “white-paper” concepts and real-world deployments: a piece of furniture that can live in a living room, office, or studio while still acting as a serious lab for decentralized infrastructure, networking, and energy-aware design.

Introducing the MARC–AURORA™ Platform

BLOCK VECTOR’s patent-pending MARC–AURORA Autonomous Relay System is now the company’s lead platform for off-grid communications, autonomous routing, environmental telemetry, and fault-tolerant micro-infrastructure. Learn more on the MARC Platform page.

→ View the MARC Platform Page

Documented, reproducible bill-of-materials and wiring maps
Measured power, thermals, and performance across miners and nodes
Multi-WAN and failover scenarios for resilient home-office networks
Data-ready platform for grants, STEM programs, and applied research