Xerxes Home Lab for Raspberry Pi and NVIDIA Jetson

A project in Sydney, AU by Rob Newport
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Private, flexible and affordable Raspberry Pi® & NVIDIA® Jetson platforms built for home labs, servers, automation, and AI.
Backers: 18
Average Daily Pledges: $2,872 AUD
Average Pledge Per Backer: $479 AUD

Funding: $8,616 AUD of $10,000 AUD
Dates: Oct 11th -> Dec 10th (61 days)
Project By: Rob Newport
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Latest News

Mini Rack Magnetic Latch Fasteners!

August 28th - via: kickstarter.com
We just wrapped up a major improvement over the last design by using magnetic latch fasteners to keep the Xerxes Pi in place more conveniently and easily.  Click on the link above to see the video on YouTube.The modification allows each Xerxes Pi to... (Read More)

Prototype 2 boards - Xerxes Pi (2026) and Xerxes Nano

August 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Our new prototypes are in! Check out the new Prototype 2 Xerxes Pi (2026) and Xerxes Nano pictures below.  Xerxes Nano (left) and Xerxes Pi 2026 (right). PCBs shown with breakaway tabs yet to be removed.The Xerxes Pi (2026) has M.2 functionality for... (Read More)

Xerxes Pi 2 tested with I2C!

June 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Some Xerxes Pi testers have said that having more than a couple devices makes it difficult to track down their hostnames and IP numbers in their racks. So we decided to make this very simple with Xerxes Pi 2 by introducing these options: Open Source... (Read More)

Xerxes Pi M.2 for CM4 and CM5 Now Fully Supported and Tested

June 15th - via: kickstarter.com
We have a stable prototype using M.2 with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4! We are currently testing it with various NVMe drives and AI Accelerators.  Click on the link above to watch a video where we demonstrate a Hailo AI Accelerator displayed... (Read More)

Cohesive Xerxes Home Lab System

June 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Hello everybody! thank you all for your support, we have some exciting news! We got some constructive feedback about the design and got to work right away. We finished early prototyping of both the Raspberry Pi® and NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano® boards... (Read More)

Xerxes ML Prototype 1 | Jetson® Nano Carrier Board

January 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you all so much for following our progress on the new Xerxes ML! Our goal for this board is to make it an absolute rocket for its cost and size.  We plan to accomplish this in 3 ways: Fit: Keep the size and cost small by removing unnecessary... (Read More)

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