A miniature 10" server rack in a 256mm³ cube that fits almost 5U of rack-mountable equipment in any orientation on any face. What will you put in yours?

Home WiFi with the mess of cables hidden away. A media centre. A NAS. A compute cluster. A network switch with Power over Ethernet to every room in your house. Or skip the geekery and put a cushion on it and make it a stool. A nightstand. Junk drawer. Cat house. Nightstand with cat house and phone charger on top. Why not? It’s modular and eminently hackable.

Our sense of compute has become far too abstract when everything is just an API accessed through our laptops. We perceive better when we bring all our senses into play. The cube is a playground for understanding compute, or, you know, just play.

We host cube building sessions within other events. Next up: at Rootconf 2025.