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Infrastructure became invisible. We're making it physical again
It moved to the cloud. And somewhere along the way, it became untouchable, hidden behind subscriptions, abstracted into dashboards. impossible to own.
DIY clusters brought it back. But only halfway. Boards, cables, and compromises. Powerful when it works. Fragile when it doesn’t. Not designed to last.
There’s a gap between good enough and enterprise or nothing.
Hive lives there.
Physical infrastructure. Modular by design.
Built to the same standards as the hardware we deploy in industrial environments, because that’s what we do.
Meet the beenode
In a hive, every bee has a role. Remove one and the colony adapts. Add more and it grows stronger. The whole system is defined by what each unit can do, and by how the work together.We designed Hive around the same principle.
Each beenode is a self-contained compute unit: Raspberry Pi CM5, RAM, NVMe storage, and networking in a single hot-swappable module. It slides into the chassis in seconds.
No rewiring. It identifies itself the moment it connects.
Assign it a role, controller, worker, AI inference, CI/CD runner, storage, edge. Change that role when your needs change. Move it from Hive Mini to a full rack unit without replacing anything.
The beenode is not a component. It’s the unit of growth.
What is Hive
A modular Raspberry Pi compute infrastructure that actually makes sense. Up to eight beenodes, each running its own CM5, slide in and out in seconds. Hot swap, tools-free. No downtime.
Run Kubernetes, self-hosted services, or distributed workloads, a private cloud. Split roles across nodes. The hardware scales. The workloads follow.
128GB
Max RAM total
<10s
Hot-swap any node
8CM5
Raspberry Pi
Two formats. One ecosystem
Hive
Designed for production workloads. For the rack. For infrastructure that earns its place alongside enterprise hardware. Everything under your full control.
19" rack - 2U rackmount - 8 CM5 - 128 GB RAM
Hive mini
Designed for homelabs, developers, and anyone building serious infrastructure without a server room.
Quiet, compact, and fully capable.
4 nodes -10" desktop/mini rack - 4 CM5 - 64 GB RAM
Both run the same beenodes. Both follow the same expansion model. Start where you are. Grow when you are ready.
Every beenode works in both formats. Your hardware investment never expires.
Every beenode works in both formats. Your hardware investment never expires.
Built by people who build hardware for a living
blackdevice is an official Raspberry Pi Design Partner. We design and manufacture connected hardware deployed across global networks, certified for international markets.
Building reliable systems isn’t a side project, it’s what we do professionally.Hive went through full in-house development: electronics, custom carrier architecture, firmware, thermal engineering, power systems, and mechanical validation.Our systems team at ipglobal has been running early Hive units in production environments.
That experience shaped every design decision, and made the system significantly better.
Designed, engineered and made in Europe
Designed with Weetbe, backed by ipglobal. Every component, every decision. Built to last.
Industrial hardware deployed worldwide
Certified IoT devices running in global retail networks. We don’t just design, we manufacture, certify and ship at scale.
Official Raspberry Pi Design Partner
One of a select group of certified hardware developers. We work directly with Raspberry Pi Ltd. to push CM5 further than anyone else.
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