8 posts authored by “Lizzie Epton”

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How Dyson uses balena for air quality monitoring

Dyson has been a long term balena-champion since 2018 for multiple R&D projects across the company. We recently sat down with David, Chris, Mohammad, and Fred from Dyson to discuss one of their recent Balena-based projects: air quality monitoring backpacks. Dyson header image Building an air quality backpack In 2018 Dyson was invited to participate in Breathe London to contribute to a project…

April 24, 2023 / 4 min

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How Carbon Co-op is reducing home carbon emissions with balena

Did you know that as a charity you can get a 20% discount on your balenaCloud subscription? We think that cutting-edge technologies should be affordable and accessible and love knowing that we are enabling our customers to have a positive impact on the world around them. Carbon Co-op header image We recently sat down with Sam from Carbon Co-op, a UK based energy services and advocacy co-operative…

March 07, 2023 / 2 min

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Marketing balena: Why we transferred our marketing site to Webflow

You might have noticed some changes to our marketing site recently. Over the last two months we have been transferring our existing site from being custom coded to using Webflow, and in this post we want to tell you a bit more about why we did this, how it fits in with balena’s culture and our approach to marketing. Marketing website launch header Why did we want a new website? We soft launched…

January 25, 2023 / 5 min

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Join the largest network of open-source, low-cost, greenhouse gas detection sensors

Editor's Note: The Ribbit Network project is a balenaHub Challenge winner. This guide is contributed by the project creator, Keenan Johnson. Try it out and join this amazing citizen science effort. Congratulations, Keenan! The Ribbit Network is a large network of open-source, low-cost, Greenhouse Gas Detection Sensors. This citizen science project aims to create the world's largest Greenhouse Gas…

April 29, 2022 / 10 min

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QVNTRA leverages balena to scale Aging-in-Place IoT solution

The United States Census Bureau shows more than 54 million people were over 65 in the US on July 1 2019, and it’s projected that by 2050, that number will increase to 83.7 million. With a rapidly aging population causing an increase in demand and an ever-shrinking labor market, senior living providers are seeking to scale their resources and services through technology. QVNTRA, an emerging senior…

February 01, 2022 / 4 min

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balenaHub Challenge 2021 - Introducing the Finalists

The balenaHub Challenge was open for entries in October and November 2021, and throughout December Hub users have been ‘voting with their Fleet’ by joining the new Fleets and trying out Projects. Here are your balenaHub Challenge 2021 finalists The top five most popular Projects and top five Fleets have made it through to judging. Read on to check them out. What is the balenaHub Challenge? Last…

January 07, 2022 / 7 min

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Holiday gift suggestions for the hardware hackers in your life - 2021 edition

The holidays are coming up! If you, like me, are not an engineer but have a lot of them in your life, here are a few ideas crowdsourced for the balena team to inspire your holiday shopping this year. Gear & Tools Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Here's a Raspberry Pi The brand new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is on every developer's wish list right now. It’s just as small as the original Pi Zero but five times as…

December 08, 2021 / 14 min

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Introducing the balena Ambassador Program

This March we are kicking off our Ambassador Program. We’ve invited six outstanding members of the balena community to join us to learn more about building with balena and to encourage other community members to do the same. Here’s an overview of the program and an introduction to our first class of ambassadors. What is the balena Ambassador Program? At balena we focus on being product and user…

March 08, 2021 / 4 min