8 posts tagged with “balenaHub”

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Introducing balenAir: an affordable air quality monitor for the home or office

Learn why we decided to build an indoor air quality device under the new balenAir brand powered by our own platform and product-building tools. Introducing balenAir It’s a mission to not only create an amazing product for people all over the world, but also to demonstrate how to use the balena ecosystem from end to end: using balena Blocks and App Enablement to create the code, balenaCloud to…

July 26, 2022 / 4 min

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The road to multi-app, mile 2: surfacing Apps on balenaHub and balenaCloud

In the first part of this series, we renamed the old concept of balenaCloud “applications” to Fleets. Due to that work, today, we’re able to surface a new concept on balenaHub and balenaCloud to continue driving down the long and winding road to multi-app: Apps. Road to multi-app Previously, we removed the concept of applications by renaming it to Fleets. That change ultimately enabled what we’re…

July 19, 2022 / 5 min

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Prototype, deploy, and scale robotics solutions with balena

In my last post, I walked through a high-level look at how one could use balena and ROS a platform to create one or many edge device robots. Since then, I’ve published several balena Blocks that help bring this vision to life, and in this post, I’d like to walk through how anyone can use these blocks to prototype, deploy, and scale an IoT robot fleet. Create a robotics project using balena Blocks…

June 24, 2022 / 17 min

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How to set up Blues Wireless to backup sensor data on Raspberry Pi using balena

In this post, I’ll introduce Blues Wireless, and how to use it as a backup method of connectivity with embedded devices, like Raspberry Pis. We’ve packed the power of Blues Wireless into a balena Block so that any edge developer can add it to a fleet and provide extra connection redundancy to your devices. Set up Blues Wireless as a backup connectivity method for your balena fleet We’re all used…

June 15, 2022 / 7 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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Improving our device image management workflow with the balenaHub Container Registry

Good news everyone! As we very recently hinted, we have been working hard on giving users a complete image management workflow for blocks, including image release management and image references that consumers can use directly in their docker-compose files. Introducing the balenaHub Container Registry What’s a block again? In a nutshell, they’re a container you can drop into your fleet to provide…

March 31, 2022 / 5 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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How to make your own balenaBlocks: simple, drop-in edge app functionality

In a previous blog post, we introduced balena Blocks, intelligent, drop-in chunks of app functionality built to handle common tasks. Then we showed off some examples of blocks we have already made (like audio, sensor, and pulse). This post is going to explore the anatomy of a block in more depth, and hopefully inspire more people to make and share their own blocks. balenaBlocks are drop-in bits of…

August 17, 2021 / 8 min