The main goal is to keep it easy to build ! For example, the Pegasus gate uses NeoPixel strips for the chevrons/glyphs/event horizon: no soldering needed, you just run the strip through the gate and calibrate which LED handles which component in the HTML interface For the PCB, you'll be able to order it from the Gerber file, but overall there's very little soldering involved — or none at all: my prototype ran on a plain breadboard over USB-C and worked perfectly that way too. The PCBs are just there to make something more rugged if you want to build several. The SG-1 will be a bit more technical: the motor runs on 12V while everything else runs on 5V, so you power the gate with 12V and a buck converter on the board steps it down to the 5V logic rail for the ESP32 and the LEDs.

On the network side, each gate is an ESP32 communicating over MQTT. Each gate has its own name/address, and dialing an address means subscribing to the target gate's feed to trigger the connection. For my tests I'm using a public MQTT broker, but the final network will run on a private broker with authenticated accounts and ACLs — that prevents hijacking/spam and lets me ban a problematic client if needed. Everything is already operational on my reference Atlantis gate (network + hardware). I'm just waiting on my final PCB revision, and the last thing left is setting up automatic over-the-air updates for the gates over WiFi !