Research and Development
Xerxes for NVIDIA® Jetson Nano™
A compact NVIDIA Jetson™ compatible blade with SFP+, NVMe, and PoE for home labs, local LLMs, and hardware-accelerated video workloads.
Prototype
Sydney, Australia
SFP+
Cluster Ready
POE+
Network Ready
M.2
Fast Storage
I2S
Qwiic Connectors
“Our core mission for the Xerxes is to make them accessible, extensible, and inexpensive. Accessible, meaning they can be fit into anything from short single cases for POE cameras to clustered in home lab racks. Extensible, meaning they can be fit with POE, I2C, M.2, and active cooling. Inexpensive means affordable for home lab users.”
— Rob Newport
In action
Home Labs and Server Racks
Xerxes Pi Rack
Home Lab, 2025
M.2 2280 on back
Home Lab, 2025
Pick and Place
Collaboration Hub, 2025
“Another Blade” (©Jeff Geerling)
YouTube, 2025
About
Research and Development
I’m Rob, a Sydney-based engineer and scientist who was frustrated with the high cost of development boards, lack of clear documentation, and inconsistent availability in Australia. So I decided to make my own line of boards to support our development both at work for our clients and at home for automation.
I hope our customers can benefit from consistent availability, price stability, and clear documentation with our line of affordable and flexible boards.
Based in
Sydney, Australia
Education
USA & Australia
Office
CSIRO
Collaboration Hub