8 posts authored by “David Tischler”

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Building a DonkeyCar Autonomous Vehicle with balena

Over the past several years at balena, we have noticed more and more customers, potential customers, and even makers and hobbyists asking about balena’s ability to manage fleets of autonomous vehicles and robots. While we do indeed have customers that use balena for their fleets of drones, submersibles, and delivery bots, I thought it would be neat to explore the topic further and build a sample…

March 23, 2022 / 12 min

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Beware of false, harmful software claiming to be balenaEtcher

It has come to our attention that there is a false and harmful version of our software, balenaEtcher, being promoted online. This post is an examination of the discovery, and a reminder to only download balenaEtcher from our official sources: the balena.io website, or GitHub repository. What happened? We recently discovered that there is a quite convincing copy of the balenaEtcher website at…

March 10, 2022 / 3 min

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Raspberry Pi Zero 2W now supported by balenaCloud

It’s no secret that here at balena, we are huge fans of the Raspberry Pi single board computers and the ecosystem of sensors, HATs, and other add-ons that enable the small device to function as an IoT or Edge platform. balenaCloud now supports the Pi Zero 2 W So when the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2W launched a few weeks ago, we immediately set to work building our custom BalenaOS for the new device…

December 03, 2021 / 3 min

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How to run edge AI with OpenVINO on balenaCloud

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process from start to finish and show you how to deploy an AI application using an Intel NUC and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit, fully containerized and ready to scale to any number of devices with balenaCloud. Developers getting ready to begin AI projects have no shortage of options when it comes to platforms, frameworks, models, and sample…

July 27, 2021 / 18 min

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IoT fleet monitoring with Datadog and balenaCloud: How small agent containers make a big impact

One challenge of managing a fleet of dispersed IoT devices is gathering and monitoring device metrics in real-time. Let’s check out how companies like Datadog are adding monitoring capabilities using lightweight containers that are ideal for IoT and edge devices. Datadog’s newest monitoring agent requires as little as 36MB of memory, 63MB of disk space, and very modest network throughput to…

February 24, 2021 / 9 min

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Etcher broke my USB stick … or did it?

We put USB sticks and SD cards through a lot of work (and abuse), and sometimes it leaves them in a state where they’re unreadable. Learn how to determine if this happens to your tiny data drive and get some tips on how to make it usable again. Let's try and restore and repair that USB drive or SD card! As you can probably guess by the types of projects we build and the contents of our blog posts…

July 22, 2020 / 6 min

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Balena enables more devices to join Rosetta@Home to research COVID-19

Editor's Note: Today the Balena team announced the Fold for Covid project, a simple way for anyone to contribute spare compute power from home to support research of COVID-19 treatments. For more background on how and why we created the project, here’s our Developer Advocate, David Tischler. Like many folks, I have been preoccupied with finding a way to help combat the global coronavirus pandemic…

April 16, 2020 / 6 min

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No hardware? Use VirtualBox to simulate a device for balenaCloud!

We receive quite a few inquiries from people wanting to use balena on their own developer machines in a VM. Maybe the board you're using is still in the mail and you can't wait to get started? Or perhaps you'd like to try balena with a fleet of devices, but don't have enough boards. This post will show you how to use an x64 NUC image to create one or more virtual balena devices with VirtualBox…

July 05, 2016 / 4 min