I feel constantly overwhelmed and inundated by both our ever-growing stock of digital photos and the need to pay multiple companies to store said photos. This clever and handy project from maker Alonso Vidales proposes a DIY solution to that very issue:

Google Photos and iCloud are convenient, but they keep a family’s photos on someone else’s servers, behind a storage plan that keeps growing. I wanted the same convenience at home: phones that back up by themselves, search that finds any photo, and sharing with family and friends, on a box the family owns, with no storage subscription and nothing that needs a terminal to set up. Off The Cloud is that box.

Check out more project details here on Hackster.io