Hardware

A home server you can plant in the yard.

The Cauldron is purpose-built hardware for VP3. Solar-powered, fanless, weather-rated. Comes pre-installed with the Cauldron Browser, Ollama, Whisper, Stable Diffusion, and the eight subdomain apps. Plug it in, point it at the sun, and your home server is online — off the cloud, off the grid.

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cauldron-v1 — pre-order — ships Q3 2026

VP3 Cauldron — solar-powered home server appliance

What's in the box

Everything VP3 needs. Nothing it doesn't.

A self-contained appliance. No assembly, no Linux skills, no NAS config. Open it, plug it, talk to it.

Solar power

120W flexible solar panel + 1.5 kWh LiFePO4 battery. Runs the appliance through the night. Optional grid-tie kit if you want to push back to the meter.

NVIDIA Jetson Orin

Edge GPU rated for local LLM inference. Runs Llama 3 8B at conversational speed, Stable Diffusion in seconds, Whisper STT in real time.

2 TB encrypted SSD

NVMe storage with hardware AES-XTS. Holds your VP3 database, brain folders, audio archive, video renders, family photos. Hot-swappable.

Pre-flashed Cauldron

Ships with Cauldron Browser, Ollama, Whisper, Fish Speech, Stable Diffusion, Cloudflare Tunnel, and all eight subdomain apps already installed and configured.

Mesh-ready

WiFi 6E + Ethernet + LTE backup. Cloudflare Tunnel ships activated — visitors hit your subdomain over SSL with zero port-forwarding.

Tamper-evident

Sealed enclosure with on-board secure element holding the Ed25519 node identity. Cracking the case wipes the keystore. Your data dies with the device unless you've backed it up.

Why a dedicated box

A laptop is not a server.

The Cauldron Browser runs on any computer — that's the point. But laptops sleep, dual-purpose desktops fight for resources, and rented servers aren't yours. The Cauldron is a single-purpose appliance: VP3, full-time, on hardware you own.

✓Always on, never sleeps
✓Solar-buffered — survives outages
✓Encrypted at rest by hardware
✓Tunnel + SSL pre-configured
✓Three-year warranty

SPEC SHEET

        compute: NVIDIA Jetson Orin (40 TOPS)

        memory: 32 GB LPDDR5

        storage: 2 TB NVMe (AES-XTS)

        solar: 120 W panel + 1.5 kWh LFP

        network: WiFi 6E + GbE + LTE

        identity: Ed25519 secure element

        cooling: passive (fanless)

        ip rating: IP54 (outdoor capable)

        size: 240 × 180 × 60 mm

        weight: 2.4 kg (incl. battery)

A home server you can plant in the yard.

Everything VP3 needs. Nothing it doesn't.

A laptop is not a server.

Reserve a Cauldron.