12 posts authored by “Andrew Nhem”

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balenaPodcast episode 05: Consilience, how we can better understand everything and each other

In this episode, we’re joined by Tom Beakbane, author of How to Understand Everything: Consilience: A New Way to See the World. Tom and Alex dig into consilience, the twin sibling of science. While science helps us better understand the natural and physical world, consilience is how we agree and understand the approaches of those subjects. The two discuss how the practice of consilience can help…

November 23, 2021 / 72 min

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balenaPodcast episode 04: Better orgs for the future, applying systems thinking, and what's next for Agile and Lean

Software Development Coach, Chris R. Chapman, joins the balenaPodcast to talk about what next-gen engineering leaders need to build better organizations. Chapman discusses why systems thinking is critical for any new leader, as well as applying psychology and empathy into the mix. He reminds us of the management thinking of luminaries like Deming, Ackoff, Taguchi, and more, while encouraging new…

September 22, 2021 / 93 min

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balenaPodcast episode 03: Open hardware and empowering humanity with technology

Our guest, Jason Kridner, Co-founder of BeagleBoard, joined Alex Marinos, CEO and Founder of balena, to discuss overcoming supply chain issues and artificial barriers to technology, the future of open, modular hardware, and how technology should empower (and not limit) humanity. Watch the full episode embedded above or on YouTube. You can also listen to the audio version on Spotify, Apple Podcasts…

September 09, 2021 / 69 min

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balenaPodcast episode 02: Bringing industrial-level 3D printing capability to the masses

For our second episode of the balenaPodcast, we spoke with Dival Banerjee (Vuecason) and Matt Parlmer (GenFab), two 3D printer entrepreneurs on their own missions to bring industrial-level manufacturing capability to everyone. Check out the two-part episode. Here's Part 1: Here's Part 2: You can also listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app: Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Please…

August 10, 2021 / 118 min

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Introducing balenaPodcast, an interview with Eben Upton, Founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation

Pretty exciting news here: we launched a podcast! We had the opportunity to record a one-on-one chat with Alexandros Marinos, balena Founder and CEO, and Eben Upton, Founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation for our very first episode. The two talked shop about how hardware manufacturers manage the global component shortage, the future of RISC-V, and how manufacturers aren’t paranoid enough (about…

June 23, 2021 / 47 min

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Five ways you can contribute to the balena community

Calling all balenaCloud and openbalena users-- we’d love to hear from you and see what amazing things you’re doing with the platform. Learn five ways you can contribute to the balena community, share your work with the world, and get some cool swag while you’re at it. Why should you contribute? We’re always on the lookout for community members who do amazing things with balena, like create edge…

June 09, 2021 / 5 min

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Introducing Open Fleets and self-submitted apps and blocks on balenaHub

We are excited to introduce open fleets on balenaHub. Now any ambitious edge developer can create an Open Fleet, Project, or balenaBlock, self-submit it to balenaHub, and share it with the entire world. We launched these changes as part of a Release Party. Now anyone can contribute edge and IoT apps to balenaHub or join an open fleet to add a device to an interesting project. What’s a release…

May 13, 2021 / 7 min

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Release Party: Making balena UX improvements to support new users

We're excited to introduce some UX improvements that can help new users starting with Deploy with balena on balenaHub. From application and release build speed improvements, to new UI elements, we added a number of new features to remove the friction from the first-time user experience. What’s a release party? Every once in a while, our team gets together to sprint on releasing a new feature. In…

April 23, 2021 / 4 min

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Keep your plant-friends happy and healthy with automated watering: balenaPlant

Even when you remember to water your plants, did you water too much? Not enough? This project combines a Raspberry Pi, balenaBlocks, environmental sensors, and water pump automation to help keep your plants watered with a data-driven touch. Meet balenaPlant Access a dashboard showing your plant data from anywhere in the world using balenaCloud. Add new plant monitors quickly and easily using the…

January 27, 2021 / 10 min

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Introducing balenaHub: an easier way to find and publish apps and projects for edge devices

Now you can find IoT and edge projects created by other product builders, like you. Simply go to balenaHub, find a project that you want to try, add your devices, and begin. We're excited to announce balenaHub! We built this feature as part of our second Release Party. Massive thanks for every teammate who contributed to launching this next exciting step of how we share and build IoT and edge…

November 25, 2020 / 4 min

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Introducing lightweight high-level device metrics in balenaCloud

Now you can surface and view device performance metrics on the balenaCloud dashboard. This is a lightweight way to get a high-level summary of CPU, RAM, and storage utilization, CPU temperature, undervoltage warnings, and other important metrics on every device within your fleet. This device metric summary is now available in balenaCloud without any extra work. For our advanced users, access this…

September 03, 2020 / 3 min

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Summit 2019, Barcelona: that’s a wrap

Last month we brought the entire balena team to Barcelona to meet, greet, hack on projects, plan for tomorrow, and have a great time together. Here are some highlights from balena’s 2019 annual summit. Why do we do this every year? Being a fully remote company, the annual summit gives the entire team a chance to socialize, collaborate, share ideas and make plans for the year ahead. There’s only so…

November 07, 2019 / 3 min