Nodes

A node is a machine you add to a workspace. A scene pinned to it runs its computer there: your laptop, a Raspberry Pi in the lab, a server in your own rack. By default scenes run on machines we operate; a node is how a workspace brings its own.

One command adds a machine

On the machine, run daslab node join with a workspace key. The node connects outward to Daslab; nothing opens on your side, no port, no DNS record, no firewall rule. Within seconds it appears in the workspace as a tile, and stopping the command removes it.

The tile says what the machine offers

A node's tile carries what the machine can do: the processor architecture, how much it can run at once, whether it reaches a local network and which one, the address its traffic leaves from, the devices plugged into it, a GPU if it has one. The agent reads the same tile. A scene running on a node knows it can reach nas.local because the node says so, and knows when it cannot.

Pinning a scene to a node is linking it

Drag the node tile into a scene and that scene's computer runs on the machine from the next job on. A scene without a pinned node runs on the workspace's own nodes if it has any, and on our machines otherwise. Where a computer ran is recorded with every run, and minutes on your own node are not metered.

Some things only a node can do

Reach the machines on your local network. Make requests from your own address rather than a datacenter's. Talk to hardware plugged into the node: a camera, a serial port, an arm. Run next to a GPU you own. Keep a scene's work inside your building.

Who may use a node

A node is a tile, so it sits in a layer like everything else. A node you add lands locked: the whole workspace sees it, and only you can pin scenes to it until you open the lock or name people. Add it to your private layer and only your own runs can use it. A node serves the workspace it was added to and no other.

A node that is away makes its scenes wait

When a machine is off or offline, the scenes pinned to it say so and wait. Their computers are not moved to our machines: a scene that was pinned to a machine on your network stays on it.

What's next

Updated 2026-08-23