Very cool. I'd really love it if someone made a distributed systems project in a box. i.e. make a raspberry pi that can be added to like a lego brick, so you c

Very cool. I'd really love it if someone made a distributed systems project in a box. i.e. make a raspberry pi that can be added to like a lego brick, so you could put like 10 together, and make it trivial to rapidly deploy like 4 copies of an app to each one and have all the networking set up automatically so it simulates having 40 machines on the internet. This would be a really cool way for prototyping out distributed applications, and possibly even making a common framework for developing actors that are cooperative but greedy, with lots of strategies for balancing the needs of an individual actor with that of the group. Torrent swarms and bitcoin are two examples of such distributed systems and making an easy way to prototype more would help us replace more and more centralized systems with distributed ones.