Turn your hardware into a research instrument
Sensors, instruments, GPUs, or workshop tools β share them on a schedule and earn.
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Heavy tier
Linux machines (Pi, Jetson, server) running full agents and edge inference.
Examples: GPU rigs, Jetson Orin, NAS, lab PCs
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Medium tier
Microcontrollers exposing sensors and simple actuators over MQTT.
Examples: ESP32, STM32, Pi Pico
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Light tier
BLE / LoRa endpoints aggregated through a Heavy bridge node.
Examples: environmental sensors, GPS trackers
Average earnings
Top contributors earn 50β500 HC/hour depending on rarity of capability and uptime.
24h
1240 HC
7d
8920 HC
30d
38600 HC
node capability manifest
{
"node_id": "node:9a7b2f...",
"owner": "user:1234",
"location": { "country": "IL", "lat_approx": 32.0 },
"capabilities": [
{
"type": "sensor",
"subtype": "rtl_sdr",
"frequency_range_hz": [24e6, 1.7e9],
"max_sample_rate_hz": 3.2e6
},
{
"type": "compute",
"subtype": "edge_inference",
"model_capacity": "yolov8n",
"tops": 21
}
],
"availability": {
"windows": [{
"from": "22:00",
"to": "07:00",
"timezone": "Asia/Jerusalem"
}]
},
"rates_hc_per_hour": 50
}