Good luck getting the hardware for that eh?

That's the rub. There is no such thing as "anyone that can supply hardware cheaply"

Either it's an established vendor with designs and fabs or it's a newcomer that needs to invest a massive pile of cash in designs and fabs. Neither are cheap.

I volunteer my laptop, I suggest you and others do the same. We can hook them up in a VPN with E2ee. We just need 1 public IP. Lets Go!