SMALL HARDWARE. REAL POSSIBILITIES.
Your next idea.
Meet Solana.
A little gateway from the physical world to the blockchain. Plug in your device, send a command, and let Soldger Alpha take it from there.
02ON THE WORKBENCH
Real hardware. A working starting point.
Two boards, a button, and a UART connection. This is the setup behind the demo.
Physical → digital
Devnet prototype01
Push button
The physical trigger
Physical input02
ESP32
Sends the transfer request
UART · 9,600 baud03
Soldger
Validates, signs, submits
Solana JSON-RPC04
Solana Devnet
Returns a transaction signature
See the actual prototype

Keep your controller simple.
The sender can be any board that supports UART. Security-sensitive and blockchain responsibilities sit on the gateway side; the architecture identifies the NXP EdgeLock SE051C2 secure element.
Follow the transaction all the way.
Alpha validates the base58 address, converts SOL to lamports with integer arithmetic, and requests a fresh blockhash. Temporary submission failures can retry the same signed transaction up to three times.
04SEE IT IN ACTION
A little more under the hood.
Two moments from the Solana Devnet prototype: the physical input and the on-chain result.
