I started on !Freedombone at the end of 2013, although I had been running a server on a Sheevaplug since 2010. In 2013 I had started a new job in Manchester and had run out of steam on robotics projects so was looking for something new. The Snowden story was in the news a lot and so I though I would try to add more security to the server and either start running FreedomBox on it or do something similar. I checked the status of FreedomBox but it seemed to be effectively an abandoned project, so there was really only one choice: do something like FreedomBox but on newer open source hardware which was the Beaglebone Black.