what does it take to set it up?
I just set one up two days ago and this is what it took.
1) laptop with windows 10 8gb of ram and 450gb ssd disk
2) download bitcoin core from
https://bitcoin.org/en/download3) wait to sync, for me it took 2 days over a fast WIFI in nothern Europe
Make sure you have at least 300GB or more as the full node is closing to the 300GB mark and you dont want to move the data again.
Good Luck
/KX