Setup Guides

This guide assumes you have completed (or will) the deployment of a Raspberry Pi Cardano node. The focus of this off-grid guide is the thoughts and approach to building your own Solar powered setup.

Our Current Setup

For this guide we have modified the Armada Alliance Raspi-Node guide for our own development uses as early minting node for Revelar. We have documented a full start to deployment guide as part of another Catalyst Fund 7 Proposal we were awarded. If you want to follow along with our build exactly as we have setup ours, please use this guide:

Easy Cardano Node Deployment

Other Raspberry Pi Setup Guides

• Raspi-Node (Armada Alliance) - https://docs.armada-alliance.com/learn/stake-pool-guides/raspberry-pi-os

• Pi-Node / Pi-Pool (Armada Alliance) - https://docs.armada-alliance.com/learn/stake-pool-guides/pi-pool-tutorial

Other solar projects

• Shoutout to WCat (Wayne) for such an inspirational setup that has been the "Most efficient stakepool on Cardano" for far longer than this off grid guide was even a thought

  • Profile: https://armada-alliance.com/identities/wcat-otg

  • Stakepool: https://adamantium.online/ Hardware Specs (~7.28kADA time of writing) https://armada-alliance.com/stake-pools/c825168836c5bf850dec38567eb4771c2e03eea28658ff291df768ae

It is good advice to setup and run a node locally before getting off grid, as there are some early syncing decisions to make before taking it out in the bush and relying on more variable to troubleshoot.