Hearthmind Node 01
One household-owned AI node, measured storage, local networking, and a documented path from design to operation. This is what your contribution funds today.
Status: FUNDING.
SOLYSTOPIAHelp build it
Fund Hearthmind Node 01
Solystopia is an argument and a manual, but arguments do not build a machine. Hearthmind Node 01 is the first thing the Fund is building: one household-owned AI node, priced, measured, and published as it happens — not a donation drive for something abstract.
The honest number
£0 raised of a £6,000 goal.
Nothing here is rounded up or estimated to look better. If no contribution has landed yet, this reads £0 — that is the truth, not a bug.
Contributions£0
Expenditure£0
Remaining to goal£6,000
Build statusPhase 0 — design and procurement. No hardware has been purchased.
Next purchaseThe DGX Spark-class node itself — nothing is ordered until it is fully funded or a decision is made to buy ahead of the goal.
£5
One-time £5 contribution toward Hearthmind Node 01 — the household-owned AI node this project is measuring and publishing.
£20
One-time £20 contribution toward Hearthmind Node 01 — parts, storage, or power-measurement equipment for the first machine.
£49
Founding Supporter — one-time, lifetime access to the Field Manual, Tools, Map, and Builders directory as each ships.
Not ready to give? Run the Household Audit first
Where the £6,000 working target comes from
An indicative allocation, not a quote
These are current UK price estimates, not invoices. Every line is labelled that way until a real purchase locks in a real number — see the honest-state module above for what has actually been spent.
NVIDIA DGX Spark (or equivalent unified-memory node)
~£4,200The machine itself — the largest single line.
Power measurement + UPS
~£500A metered smart plug from day one, plus enough runtime to shut down cleanly.
Networking
~£300A managed switch and cabling to the rest of the household network.
Storage contribution
~£600Toward Hearthvault 01's first tier of resilient, mirrored storage.
Cabling, contingency, and delivery
~£400Real installation costs that a spreadsheet always underestimates.
Working target£6,000
Modelled estimate Allocation modelled from current UK retail pricing for comparable hardware, not a supplier quote.
Before you give
What a contribution actually is
Who receives the money
Contributions go directly to Solystopia via Stripe. There is no separate foundation or intermediary taking a cut before it reaches this project.
What it funds
Hearthmind Node 01 specifically — the allocation table above is the real, current spending plan, updated as prices and purchases change.
Support, not equity
A contribution is a gift toward a specific purchase, not an investment, share, loan, or reward guarantee beyond what is stated for the £49 tier.
The £49 Founding tier
Lifetime access to the Field Manual, Tools, Map, and Builders directory as each ships. This is the only tier with a standing benefit attached.
If £6,000 isn't reached
Any money already committed goes toward real purchases already made. An unspent balance rolls forward to the next stage of Hearthmind rather than being refunded piecemeal — this is stated here so it is never a surprise.
Refunds
If a purchase this money was meant to fund does not happen within a reasonable time, email hello@solystopia.tech and ask — refunds are handled individually, not automatically.
Who owns the hardware
Equipment purchased for Node 01 is owned by the household running the experiment and documented publicly, the same way any Hearthmind hardware purchase is recorded.
01
Give
Fund the households, workshops, and small builders already doing this work, without the overhead of a foundation between you and them.
02
Build
Apply for a grant to build capability where you live — a tool library, a repair space, a microgrid, a seed bank.
03
Back
Co-invest in ventures that make high technology, low dependency commercially viable, not just admirable.
Projects with an honest status
Hearthvault 01
A tiered, integrity-oriented archive for models, documents, datasets, and household operational memory.
Status: RESEARCH.Infrastructure 001
A ward-scale AI commons that follows household proof, federation, and evidence rather than preceding them — the horizon Node 01 feeds.
Status: CONCEPT.Just want to follow along?
Not ready to give, build, or back anything yet? Leave your email and we will send one update when Hearthmind Node 01 numbers change — no noise, no drip campaign.