Arm Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

Inspired by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

, Libre Web Services (LWS)

, also known as "Raspberry Web Services (RWS)"

, is a concept built during Hack Club's

Winter of Making

2023 Winter Hardware Wonderland

"10 Days of Making" event is a hackable, scalable, load-balanced, home-hosted, multi-node aarch64 Arm-based

cloud powered by Kubernetes

& Docker

, created by @alialiwa2005 ("Hack Cat"

), a veteran

Hack Club community member

& founder 🧭 of Gaynor McCown Hack Club

, established in November of 2020

. Libre Web Services

on Hack Club Scrapbook

| Libre.hackclub.com

Winter of Making Day 5 While the remainder of the LWS cluster case prints, I've flashed SD cards & booted Ubuntu Server

, before completing basic setup and networking... The 4 nodes will have consecutive static IPs for ease of access and identification. Here's a screenshot of a CPU info command executed through ssh to one of the Libre Web Services

nodes. As you can see, it's an aarch64 ARM

Cortex A53 cpu, a mighty cpu for it's size and power efficiency.

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Winter of Making Day 4.5 Here's the first successful print of a node rack platform (it's screwless!), as well as a freshly unboxed piece of credit-card-sized, Arm-powered

Libre Web Services

hardware infrustructure!

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Winter of Making Day 2 Introducing Libre Web Services

, inspired by Amazon Web Services

. • Gigabit Fiber-Optic • 16 ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.4GHz • 16GB DDR4-2133 SDRAM • 4 ARM Mali-450 @ 500MHz A hackable, scalable, load-balanced, home-hosted cloud service powered by Kubernetes

& 16 Arm cpu cores

Logo design incorporates Libre Computer, Hack Club, and Kubernetes.

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