Technology

Twenty-three-year-old Jacob Cook is on a mission to help you create your own small piece of cloud on the internet, freeing you from other providers for services like file storage and sharing, web hosting, e-mail, calendars, music, and photos. His project, ArkOS, is built to run on the Raspberry Pi, which means there’s only a small investment to get a server up and running in your home. It’s a Linux distribution that includes a web-based interface to serve and manage self-hosted cloud services.

In front of a packed house at Engadget Expand, The Sea Slugs took the title for the first-ever Raspberry Pi Make: Off. Their web-based wireless device locator impressed the judges for its ambitiousness and resourceful use of materials, many of which were taken from the show floor at the Jacob K. Javits Center. For winning, […]