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Ambitious ideas transformed into smart, reliable solutions
blackdevice is an engineering company focused on hardware, embedded software and connected products.
We help companies turn ideas into reliable, production-ready devices through a structured, hands-on approach.
We handle the complexity, so you don't have to
Bridging innovation and industrialization to deliver smart products built to perform and scale.
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blackdevice brings together electronics engineers, embedded developers and designers with hands-on experience building real products.
Innovative product design & engineering
We fuse industrial, mechanical, and electronic expertise to transform ideas into intuitive, actionable blueprints that lay the foundation for breakthrough products.
Advanced development & software integration
We convert creative concepts into high-performance products through cutting-edge firmware, software, and IT solutions—ensuring seamless, robust integration.
Scalable production & end-to-end support
We turn prototypes into market-ready products with efficient, scalable manufacturing and integrated IT support for competitive performance.
Not just smart, engineered to perform
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Building a Raspberry Pi NAS in 2026: An engineer’s guide to performance and reliability
14/09/2026
Discover how to transform your Raspberry Pi into a budget‑friendly NAS (Network Attached Storage) server for secure backups, centralized…
The tool we built to flash multiple Compute Modules at once
25/08/2026
We built Flashrock to batch-program up to seven Compute Modules at once. Discover how it works, why we built it, and how we use it to…
Raspberry Pi Connect guide (2026): Setup, security, and headless configuration
15/08/2026
Learn how to connect remotely Raspberry Pi securely in minutes with our step-by-step Raspberry Pi Connect installation and setup……
Hive mechanical design evolution. Raspberry Pi compute platform
03/08/2026
Hive's latest prototype marks another important step in the evolution of our Raspberry Pi compute platform. In this article, we take you…
Installing local LLMs on Raspberry Pi CM5: Performance benchmarks and the Gemma3 surprise
02/08/2026
We installed Ollama on our Pi Hack (Rasperry Pi CM5 8GB) and tested multiple local LLMs. Gemma3 (270M & 1B) proved the best tradeoff of…
Hive Community Survey #2: What the Raspberry Pi community told us
29/07/2026
Our second Hive Community Survey brought together feedback from 60 early supporters and revealed valuable insights into Raspberry Pi…
Introducing HiveLab. Build the first community projects on Hive
17/07/2026
Hive Lab is our new community hub for Raspberry Pi, homelab and self-hosting enthusiasts who want to build real projects with Hive. Learn…
What we learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster, and how those lessons shaped Hive
22/06/2026
A year after deploying our early Raspberry Pi compute cluster prototype, it came back to the workshop for maintenance before heading to a…
Insightst from the first Hive community survey
15/06/2026
We sent our first community survey to Hive early supporters to better understand who is joining the project, what they want to run, and…


















