6 posts authored by “Rahul Thakoor”

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WiFi-enable USB printers with a Raspberry Pi and share it over your network

Do you have a printer that only connects using USB? Wish you could print from your phone, tablet or a computer from another room? Turn a Pi into an AirPrint-friendly printer server! Turn a Pi into an AirPrint-friendly printer server! This guide will walk you through setting up and sharing your printer using a Raspberry Pi so you can print wirelessly from any device in your home network. Before you…

April 14, 2020 / 11 min

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Control your devices from a web browser using Bluetooth

Here’s how to use the Web Bluetooth API and balena to control Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices remotely from a browser. This guide shows you how to build a simple LED setup that you can switch on and off from a web browser. We’ll also dive into how this works and how it can drive other awesome ideas. Build a simple LED setup that you can switch on and off from a web browser with balena. In this…

February 04, 2020 / 10 min

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balena monthly roundup - November 2019

Happy November, everyone! Welcome to another packed update from team balena. We’re all freshly back from our annual summit, which this year (for the second time) was in Barcelona, and we're ready for another year working hard to make life easier for all you IoT fleet owners out there. See the balena team at work It’s was a great opportunity for our new team members to get on board and meet their…

November 12, 2019 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - October 2019

What’s happening, everyone? We hope you had a good month. It’s time for another update from balena-land. The first thing I want to mention this month is our Barcelona Hackathon 2019, tickets are selling fast and so if you want to join us, make sure to head over to the Eventbrite page as soon as you can. We’ve been busy digging into the power circuitry on the balenaFin, working with a mixed 32 and…

October 10, 2019 / 6 min

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Using Web Bluetooth to communicate with Bluetooth devices

balena web ble project Adding Bluetooth to your IoT project usually means developing native applications to interact with your devices. However, the new Web Bluetooth API specification allows web browsers to communicate directly with Bluetooth Low Energy devices. While the specification is not finalized yet, we can already experiment with it using Chrome on macOS, Linux, Windows, and Android. In…

September 12, 2019 / 7 min

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Make a web frame with Raspberry Pi in 30 minutes

Last updated: 26th October, 2020 Try balenaDash, a simple project to quickly get you up and running with a web frame to display family photos, dashboards, videos, and more. Introduction balenaDash is a Raspberry Pi powered digital photo/web frame with a difference! It can display a fully GPU accelerated web page or app of your choosing and allow you to update that content from anywhere. Here're…

November 22, 2018 / 12 min