3 posts authored by “Konstantinos Mouzakis”

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balenaFin has reached end of life

TL;DR - From 01/02/2023, balena will cease manufacturing the balenaFin and move to releasing the design files for commercial usage, under a permissive license. Our mission has always centered around removing sources of friction for our customers. Back in 2018, we recognized a void in the market for a hardware device that could support our customers' scaling ambitions. That's why, in 2018, we…

June 27, 2023 / 2 min

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Refactoring Our Mission Statement

For several (transformative) years, balena’s mission has been to 'unlock the potential of physical computing by removing friction from fleet owners'. This mission served as a north star, driving our efforts to make a significant impact on the friction encountered by developers and businesses across the globe whilst working on IoT and edge computing challenges in the real world. We are incredibly…

May 17, 2023 / 3 min

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Taming the 'hard' in hardware in 8 steps - a product development journey

In 2017, we (balena) embarked on a mission to build the ultimate flashing media. As a software company, we didn't realize the hornet's nest that we had stepped into. Little did we anticipate that in the process, we would end up re-examining the wheel at every step, going through eight design iterations and creating our own board from scratch. Nor did we expect it to take a full two years -- four…

July 02, 2019 / 20 min