The PirateBox has been featured in over 200 international online and print publications, including New Scientist, Le Monde, Ars Technica, and Wired Italia.
PirateBox has inspired over 30,000 tweets on Twitter and several thousand reader comments. The project has been forked and spawned several derivatives, including the LibraryBox, the BiblioBox, and the CowBow (CoWorking Box).