20 posts authored by “Alan Boris”

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Raspberry Pi 5 available now on balenaOS

Today Raspberry Pi Ltd. announced the new Raspberry Pi 5, and we are pleased to announce the release of balenaOS for this new board! With the struggles brought on by supply chain issues for the past few years, many assumed no new iterations of the Pi would be introduced until at least 2024, so we are thrilled by this great news! Post header image Raspberry Pi 5 image courtesy of Raspberry Pi Ltd…

September 28, 2023 / 3 min

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balena EtcherPro Saves Jeff Geerling's Life (not literally)

Post header image What does YouTube tech star Jeff Geerling do when he needs to flash hundreds of SD cards accurately under extreme time pressure? He uses the balena EtcherPro as documented in his latest video: In this video, Jeff had to build a voting system for one of MrBeast’s shows. (In case you aren’t familiar, MrBeast is one of the most subscribed YouTubers in the world and is known for his…

September 20, 2023 / 2 min

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Comparing performance of Jetson GPUs on balena

The NVIDIA Jetson is a popular IoT device for machine learning on the edge, and balenaOS supports over a dozen different models including the new Orin series. There’s plenty of benchmarks, specifications and marketing material available to ascertain the relative computing power of all the different NVIDIA Jetson devices. You’ll often find charts that compare AI performance in TOPS, GPU cores, CUDA…

September 06, 2023 / 5 min

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Running An AI Model On The Jetson GPU And CPU Simultaneously

There’s a popular breakfast dish in Philadelphia known as scrapple, which consists of pork scraps and trimmings - all the leftover parts of meat after butchering that could not be used or sold elsewhere to avoid waste. An AI project that we presented last year reminds me of scrapple because its goal is the same - leave no waste and utilize every bit of computing power of a NVIDIA Jetson Nano. This…

July 14, 2023 / 5 min

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Using balenaOS Amazon AWS AMIs

Back in February, we wrote a post about the then-new availability of BalenaOS Amazon Machine Images (AMI) for Amazon AWS. In this post, we’ll examine in more detail what AMIs are, why you would want to use them with balenaOS, as well as an example use case you can try out for yourself. Post header image What is an AMI? We will start out with the assumption that you are already familiar with Amazon…

June 12, 2023 / 9 min

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Using NVIDIA Jetson NGC containers on balenaOS

Balena’s container-based technology streamlines development, deployment, and management of IoT Linux devices. However, when those devices include NVIDIA Jetson-based AI carrier boards and modules, there is the additional challenge of configuring an ML software stack such as PyTorch or TensorFlow and all of its underlying dependencies. BSP drivers, JetPack versions and CUDA libraries must match…

May 05, 2023 / 15 min

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Deploy and manage Plate Recognizer with balena

A popular use case for simple machine learning on current single board computers is license plate recognition. (Also known as “automatic license plate recognition” or ALPR) ALPR is used by many industries but is particularly useful for toll collection, property management and in the parking industry. blog header Plate Recognizer is a company that has a variety of paid and free products that…

January 20, 2023 / 10 min

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How to use NVIDIA Jetson devices on balena

The Jetson line of modules brings accelerated AI to edge devices, allowing for truly innovative uses for IoT devices. The balena platform supports these modules (Nano, TX2, Xavier, Orin), enabling you to deploy, maintain, and update fleets of one to hundreds of thousands with ease. This is the third update of our series about how to use Jetson devices on the balena platform. How to use edge AI…

January 11, 2023 / 17 min

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Introducing balenAir: an affordable air quality monitor for the home or office

Learn why we decided to build an indoor air quality device under the new balenAir brand powered by our own platform and product-building tools. Introducing balenAir It’s a mission to not only create an amazing product for people all over the world, but also to demonstrate how to use the balena ecosystem from end to end: using balena Blocks and App Enablement to create the code, balenaCloud to…

July 26, 2022 / 4 min

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How to use an NVIDIA GPU on an x86 device with balenaOS

Some projects, especially ones utilizing machine learning require access to the computing power of an attached graphics processing unit (GPU). This is the case for software that depends on CUDA, NVIDIA’s parallel programming model. Use NVIDIA GPU on x86 device with balenaOS We've demonstrated how to enable CUDA on Jetson-based devices running balenaOS, but in this guide, we'll outline how to…

December 21, 2021 / 6 min

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How to use BLE to communicate between an Arduino running Edge Impulse and a Pi running balenaOS

In this post, we’ll look at how Edge Impulse and balena work together and what led me down the path to improvise a solution using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) so the two could communicate with each other. Illustration of Edge Impulse and balena project I’ve been fascinated by the work of Edge Impulse, which is a platform that allows devices such as microcontrollers and single board computers to…

September 30, 2021 / 7 min

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balenaSense v2: Updated temperature, pressure, and humidity monitoring for Raspberry Pi

Welcome to version 2.0 of balenaSense, featuring a number of radical changes that rendered previous guides somewhat outdated. Using an outdated guide is no fun, so, we present a new project tutorial for balenaSense v2. balenaSense was designed to make it easy to take temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and other readings from sensors and provide a dashboard to see this information at a…

July 09, 2021 / 17 min

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balenaBlocks in-depth: Sensor and Pulse

In this post, we introduce the sensor and pulse blocks, both designed to make it easy to bring data from sensors and other equipment into your projects. We’ll also look at the decisions made during the development of these blocks in order to keep their setup and usage simple, as well as a few example projects that utilize multiple blocks. In a previous post we introduced balenaBlocks, which are…

May 04, 2021 / 13 min

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How to use NVIDIA Jetson devices on balena

Access the full capabilities of Jetson devices in balenaCloud. Recent versions of balenaOS provide easy access to JetPack components, giving your containers access to the GPU’s power. Learn how to build a project to start accessing a world of AI tools, including CUDA and OpenCV, below. How to use edge AI tools with NVIDIA and balenaOS Hardware refresher Nvidia Jetson is a series of embedded…

December 15, 2020 / 14 min

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Analyze sounds using Coral AI on the edge and fleet intelligence, Part 1

Can we use AI to help us identify and quantify noise pollution? In this project, we’re using a Coral Dev Board or a Raspberry Pi 4 with an attached Edge TPU to listen to ambient sounds 24/7 and categorize them for us. Use AI to identify and quantify sounds with Coral + balena We’ll also demonstrate how we could deploy a fleet of these devices (e.g. across an entire city) and feed new information…

October 22, 2020 / 14 min

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Using OpenDataCam and balena to "quantify the world" with AI

Learn how to run OpenDataCam on balenaCloud, which adds a number of features to make managing a device (or a fleet of dozens) easy. This guide features deployment, remote configuration, how to use the built-in VPN, a public URL, and monitoring device diagnostics. What is OpenDataCam? OpenDataCam is an open source project, by move Lab, that tracks moving objects with live video analysis using CUDA…

June 19, 2020 / 12 min