64 posts tagged with “balenacloud”

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What's New in Version 13 of Balena Python SDK

In this blog post, we will provide you with a concise overview of the new features and breaking changes introduced in Version 13 of the balena Python SDK. We have focused on enhancing the balena Python SDK to further streamline your IoT development workflow. This release brings a wide range of new features designed to enhance your experience with the SDK, as well as some breaking changes that may…

June 28, 2023 / 12 min

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Creating an IoT marketplace and launching Fleets for Good

Today we’re launching a big update to balenaHub, creating a marketplace to find and share resources for IoT building products and services. Alongside, we’re launching Fleets for Good (formerly open fleets), our way of sharing our technology to enable users who want to use our platform for a good cause. balenaHub rebrand Back in November 2020 we launched the first iteration of balenaHub. Then in…

March 01, 2023 / 5 min

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How to use an external AWS S3 provider for openbalena

EDITOR’S NOTE: We welcome this community contribution by Bart Versluijs, also known as bversluijs on the balenaForums. As a constant contributor and prototyper using openbalena, we couldn’t help but have him share some build tips and tricks. In this post, we’ll be connecting an external AWS S3 provider to openBalena, instead of using the integrated Minio S3 container. How to use AWS S3 external…

June 01, 2022 / 7 min

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Blocks: new management functionality and a public roadmap for what's next

Today, our concept for IoT app enablement graduates from a concept to a first-class entity in the balenaCloud dashboard, with plenty of exciting roads still left to travel. It's a long, interesting road for balena Blocks This post is about what you can do with blocks today, why we needed to correct course, and where we are heading with Blocks in the future. Buckle up– here we go! What’s a Block…

March 03, 2022 / 8 min

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The balenaCloud dashboard: why we change stuff and move things

There’s a lot of thought and reasoning behind what seem like trivial changes that I want to share with you all publicly. From the outside, I feel that the effort that we put in to ensure things such as product longevity, maintainability, and reliability may not be obvious, so I want to explore that today. Chris here, your friendly neighborhood product guy, back with another attempt to take down a…

February 14, 2022 / 12 min

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Create a fleet of centrally-managed Bluetooth low-energy(ble) beacons with ble-lighthouse and balena

Low-energy Bluetooth beacons bridge the physical and the digital world. Whether it’s navigating indoor devices or broadcasting sensor information in a connectionless state, beacons have efficiently enabled the Internet of Things(IoT) to be part of many use cases. Introducing ble-lighthouse, the best way to build fleets of Bluetooth low-energy beacons As a part of my balenaLabs Residency, I decided…

January 26, 2022 / 8 min

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Build a heartrate monitor using an e-ink reader, a Raspberry Pi, and balena

Are you looking to decrease your stress and improve your mental well-being? Follow along with my DIY guide for monitoring your heart rate during the work day! Introducing balenaHealth, a heart rate monitor based on balena and a Raspberry Pi I built a heart rate monitoring system for my home office using balena technology as part of my balenaLabs Residence. Use the steps from this guide to follow…

January 12, 2022 / 15 min

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Interfacing balena edge devices with AdafruitIO

If you’re someone like me who can solder wires together, and knows how to program a single board computer to blink addressable LEDs, but always struggles when it comes to creating a beautiful front-end user interface to control them over the web, this blog post is for you. Learn how to use AdafruitIO to interface with balena devices Let’s explore how to interface edge devices on balena using…

January 06, 2022 / 7 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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balenaLabs Residencies: our quest to improve onboarding at balena

Onboarding is more than learning your new role and meeting teammates. It’s also about managing your own expectations, that of others, and finding a way to get as much context about your new role and company as possible. balenaLabs logo Here's how balena used the feedback and observations of new joiners to try a new way to onboard new teammates and put them on a path toward success. I remember my…

December 02, 2021 / 11 min

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balenaCloud outages: their causes and what we’re doing to resolve them

While we always work with scale in mind, our platform has recently been less reliable than our customers have come to expect during these last few months. balenaCloud has experienced an explosion of growth which has put the platform under a lot of pressure, exposing areas that require improving. We want to apologize to our customers for the impact these outages have had and explain our plan going…

November 26, 2021 / 4 min

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Build a self-hosted, voice-controlled mood tracker using Rhasspy and balena

Mood trackers keep a record of a person's mood at regular intervals. Their purpose is to help look for patterns in mood variations over time caused by different situations and circumstances. However, manually feeding data into a mood tracker can be a cumbersome task, and some people may have privacy concerns about using third-party mood tracking services. In this blog post, I’ll show how I…

November 24, 2021 / 17 min

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Build one (or many) robots with balena: Introducing the tech stack and robot block

From my earliest conversations with balena, it was clear my role would be to help integrate robotics tools such as ROS (Robotic Operating System) with the balena ecosystem. I found this as the perfect excuse to start building upon a decade-long dream: an accessible robotics platform that can be used to teach, learn, and develop for years to come. Introducing the balena robot block and our approach…

November 04, 2021 / 10 min

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Improve your sleep (or other parts of your life) with automated curtains at home

While there are plenty of home automation lighting projects out there to help you automate and control LEDs, I wanted to control something physical within the home - curtains or blinds. Check out my balenaLabs residency project where I prototype a way to automate curtain or blind movement to adjust the heat and light that enters my home. Why is this important? Circadian rhythm is an important…

October 28, 2021 / 15 min

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How I built a video game prototype with custom hardware and balena

I’ve been wanting to make this alternative controller game for a while and found the perfect opportunity to do so at balena. Read on to learn about my idea, how I used balena to prototype my project, and what next steps I’ll take to bring this edge project to life. Animated GIF of project My game is about an ancient spirit trapped inside of an ornate brick. The picture below shows some concept art…

September 27, 2021 / 11 min

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The road to multi-app: transitioning balenaCloud Applications to Fleets

Applications on balenaCloud are now Fleets. We’ve changed this to progress us towards our long-term vision of disentangling devices from software, allowing you to manage both independently and solve for use cases of ever-increasing complexity. We want to provide ultimate flexibility for fleet owners and believe that working within the confines of the application scope was limiting what we could…

August 09, 2021 / 6 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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balenaSense v2: Updated temperature, pressure, and humidity monitoring for Raspberry Pi

Welcome to version 2.0 of balenaSense, featuring a number of radical changes that rendered previous guides somewhat outdated. Using an outdated guide is no fun, so, we present a new project tutorial for balenaSense v2. balenaSense was designed to make it easy to take temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and other readings from sensors and provide a dashboard to see this information at a…

July 09, 2021 / 17 min

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Release Party: Making balena UX improvements to support new users

We're excited to introduce some UX improvements that can help new users starting with Deploy with balena on balenaHub. From application and release build speed improvements, to new UI elements, we added a number of new features to remove the friction from the first-time user experience. What’s a release party? Every once in a while, our team gets together to sprint on releasing a new feature. In…

April 23, 2021 / 4 min

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Offline Updates make it easier to update balena devices without the internet

Many balenaCloud users enjoy the seamless integration between their connected IoT devices and our tools that make device monitoring, managing, and updating easy. However, what if your devices have limited connectivity by design? Introducing Offline Updates: a process that lets you to preload and reflash a device so it retains its unique balena identity, apps, and configurations-- all without a…

February 09, 2021 / 6 min

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Introducing the new balenaCloud sidebar

During balena's Release Party 3, our team designed and deployed a new sidebar on balenaCloud in less than eight hours. This includes improvement of the menu experience and innovative breadcrumbs. Thanks to every teammate who contributed to redesign the sidebar. Better navigation for better fleet management We’ve been looking to update the balenaCloud dashboard menu for some time to make it more…

December 22, 2020 / 2 min

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Balena introduces new collaboration and organization management features

We’ve been thinking a lot about how companies and teams work together on balenaCloud, and wanted to make it easier to collaborate without sacrificing control or security. The result of our work is a new top-level feature called Organizations. Start using Organizations in balenaCloud today With this release, Organizations become central to device, application and user management across our platform…

December 17, 2020 / 4 min

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Introducing balenaBlocks: jumpstart your IoT app development

Our mission at balena is to “reduce friction for fleet owners and unlock the power of physical computing”-- it’s what guides every balenista’s work. However, there’s still complexity to be found in developing applications for your fleet, and we’re on our way toward solving this part of the puzzle. Meet the blocks balenaBlocks are an exploration of what we’ve been working on to reduce the friction…

December 16, 2020 / 11 min

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Introducing balenaHub: an easier way to find and publish apps and projects for edge devices

Now you can find IoT and edge projects created by other product builders, like you. Simply go to balenaHub, find a project that you want to try, add your devices, and begin. We're excited to announce balenaHub! We built this feature as part of our second Release Party. Massive thanks for every teammate who contributed to launching this next exciting step of how we share and build IoT and edge…

November 25, 2020 / 4 min

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Build a Scratch server using a Raspberry Pi and balena

Ever wonder what an 8-year-old child would build if you taught them balena? Building their very own Scratch server is at the top of the list. All it took was some encouragement, a Raspberry Pi, and some simple steps. For parents and educators who want to start quickly, our tried-and-true guide steps are available here. Or read on to enjoy the tale of an eight year old boy and his quest to build…

November 19, 2020 / 8 min

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Why is the balenaFin right for fleet owners? Part 3: Networking

This is the third in a series of posts about the key features that make the balenaFin the right choice for IoT fleet owners. For those who aren’t familiar with the balenaFin, you can take a look at this introductory post. We’ve divided the series into three posts that cover the main categories: storage, power and networking. When it comes time to choose an IoT device for professional workloads…

November 16, 2020 / 6 min

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Receive and store LoRa sensor data from TTN using a Raspberry Pi (part 2)

Back in the first part of this series, we detailed the process of building a simple LoRa-connected weather station to monitor temperature, humidity, and pressure, and send the readings to The Things Stack (TTS). In this second part, we’re going to take a look at how you can capture that data, record it and produce a dashboard and graphs to visualize the data. Note: 28th June 2021: The Things…

October 28, 2020 / 9 min

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Build a simple solar-powered weather station with LoRa & The Things Stack (part 1)

We’ve covered a couple of ways to build a LoRa gateway for The Things Stack (TTS) here on the blog and on YouTube, but what about if you want to take advantage of your own gateway and deploy some sensors in your home or garden? Build a simple solar-powered weather station This two-part series will explore how to build a simple, solar-powered weather station, and in the second part, set up a way to…

October 27, 2020 / 11 min

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Cellular + IoT isn't as hard as you think

I’ve always been a bit hesitant to add cellular networking to my IoT projects because I figured the cost of bandwidth and the hardware requirements were more trouble than they were worth. But after some experimentation, I got over my fears and found cellular wasn’t nearly as expensive or as complicated as I thought. In this blog post, I’ll explain how I went about adding cellular network service…

October 27, 2020 / 10 min

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Analyze sounds using Coral AI on the edge and fleet intelligence, Part 1

Can we use AI to help us identify and quantify noise pollution? In this project, we’re using a Coral Dev Board or a Raspberry Pi 4 with an attached Edge TPU to listen to ambient sounds 24/7 and categorize them for us. Use AI to identify and quantify sounds with Coral + balena We’ll also demonstrate how we could deploy a fleet of these devices (e.g. across an entire city) and feed new information…

October 22, 2020 / 14 min

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Infarm uses balena to make farm-to-table work

Sustainably feeding the planet is at the heart of the farm-to-table movement and the motivation behind a new breed of tech companies working to make locally grown herbs and vegetables commercially viable. Balena is there to help. For Berlin-based Farm-as-a-Service company Infarm, the answer to food-to-table farming is remote-controlled microfarms that use edge technology to optimize growing…

September 22, 2020 / 5 min

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How to classify socks using a Raspberry Pi, Edge Impulse, and balena

We’re going to create a project on a Raspberry Pi with a Camera that distinguishes between socks using the Edge Impulse Machine Learning system running on balena. We all know that matching socks is a nightmare, so having an affordable, intelligent system saying if a sock matches with another sock is the best weekend project ever. Use AI on a Raspberry Pi with Edge Impulse and balena to determine…

September 14, 2020 / 11 min

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'Deploy with balena' makes it easier to deploy and share IoT apps

Have you ever shared an open source IoT project only to be overwhelmed with questions about how to deploy it, or underwhelmed with the lack of adoption by the community? Even if you labor over your README instructions, it can be hard to make device provisioning and deployments simple and repeatable. Streamline how you deploy your IoT application Our new Deploy with balena capability lets you…

September 03, 2020 / 5 min

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Introducing lightweight high-level device metrics in balenaCloud

Now you can surface and view device performance metrics on the balenaCloud dashboard. This is a lightweight way to get a high-level summary of CPU, RAM, and storage utilization, CPU temperature, undervoltage warnings, and other important metrics on every device within your fleet. This device metric summary is now available in balenaCloud without any extra work. For our advanced users, access this…

September 03, 2020 / 3 min

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Never lose your stuff again: tracking Bluetooth beacons with a Raspberry Pi

Never lose something important to you again by using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and Raspberry Pi sensors to track your stuff. Are your keys at home or in the office? By following this guide, you’ll soon know. Introduction Contrary to my family’s opinion, I have a terrific memory. I can remember the words and theme tune to almost every 1980’s UK TV advert ever made, for instance. However…

August 18, 2020 / 14 min

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How my cat helped me build a better IoT app

Modernizing my app made it far easier to spy on my American Shorthair. My cat Tucker is a somewhat predictable animal who likes to curl up in predictable spots around the house, so he’s the perfect subject for surreptitious video surveillance and just the sort of motivating force I needed to rework a Raspberry Pi project I’d been putting off for some time. I’d previously set up video surveillance…

August 18, 2020 / 13 min

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Make a security camera system in 30 minutes or less

Use a single-board computer or spare laptop, a webcam and free software to build your own surveillance system. There are many reasons for wanting security cameras: watching blind spots around your home, keeping a remote eye on your children playing, or finding where the delivery person lobbed your package. In fact, I have all of these reasons and more, so I set out to see how easy it would be for…

August 13, 2020 / 7 min

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balena monthly roundup - August 2020

This month we’re excited about partnering with Coral to help developers bring their local AI projects to life. We made a bit of a splash with the Steampunk Geiger Counter project, presented a simple way to start up a LoRa network with Basics Station, and helped users fix those corrupted USB or SD card drives. From the community, we’re happy to spotlight this project guide on using balenaOS to…

August 05, 2020 / 5 min

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Deploy a LoRa Basics™ Station gateway with TTN and balena

In the past we have showed how to deploy a The Things Network (TTN) LoRa gateway with balena, and how to build an outdoor TTN LoRa gateway with balenaFin. In this blogpost, you will learn how to deploy a The Things Network (TTN) v2 and The Things Stack v3 LoRaWAN gateway running the newest Semtech Packet Forward protocol, the LoRa Basics™ Station. build a LoRa Basics Station with balena This…

July 22, 2020 / 13 min

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Balena partners with Coral to enable AI at the edge

Today we’re announcing that balena and Coral are partnering to simplify how developers deploy and manage AI applications at the edge. Coral is a platform of hardware components, software tools, and example models for building devices with local AI. Coral's on-device ML acceleration technology helps developers build fast, efficient, and affordable solutions for the edge. Balena helps developers…

July 07, 2020 / 3 min

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Build a simple radiation monitor using a Raspberry Pi, InfluxDB and Grafana

We wrote in detail about our Raspberry Pi geiger counter project in another post, now this guide focuses on the basics necessary to build your own. Read on to discover how to assemble a background radiation monitor with a web dashboard to show pretty graphs (who doesn’t like pretty graphs?!). Introduction We build and feature projects that monitor the environment around them quite frequently at…

July 06, 2020 / 6 min

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Show & tell: a steampunk desktop background radiation monitor

I was always a fan of the steampunk style, and having also had experience building steam engines in the past, there was only one real direction this project could go. Once I had my radiation detector kit hooked up to my Raspberry Pi running InfluxDB and Grafana, I found myself woodworking, machining, and fabricobbling an enclosure out of mahogany, brass, copper, toggle switches and, because it…

July 01, 2020 / 15 min

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Using OpenDataCam and balena to "quantify the world" with AI

Learn how to run OpenDataCam on balenaCloud, which adds a number of features to make managing a device (or a fleet of dozens) easy. This guide features deployment, remote configuration, how to use the built-in VPN, a public URL, and monitoring device diagnostics. What is OpenDataCam? OpenDataCam is an open source project, by move Lab, that tracks moving objects with live video analysis using CUDA…

June 19, 2020 / 12 min

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Send personal messages and inspirational quotes with this e-ink display project

Introducing Inkyshot: an inspirational e-ink display delivering a daily shot of encouragement through a quote or personalized message for you or your loved ones. Based on a Raspberry Pi Zero and e-ink display, Inkyshot is a perfect weekend project whether you’re completely new to IoT or an experienced developer. Introducing Inkyshot Follow this guide to build your own Inkyshot for yourself or…

June 08, 2020 / 8 min

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Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Wi-Fi access point or repeater

Remote work brings more opportunity to tackle projects from different parts of the home. However, without strong enough Wi-Fi strength, your productivity might sink. Use this project to create a Wi-Fi access point or repeater out of a Raspberry Pi so you can improve signal coverage while working from home or remotely on the road. Extend Wi-Fi coverage with this project In today’s modern life…

May 18, 2020 / 10 min

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Deprecation of Python 2 base images in balenalib

As of January 1st, 2020, the Python Software Foundation announced the sunsetting of the Python 2. This means that from that date there will be no further improvements, even if someone were to identify a security risk. Their very strong recommendation is to upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. In light of this, we are announcing the deprecation of our Python 2 base images in balenalib. When are…

May 12, 2020 / 1 min

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Check yourself for a fever with this DIY thermal scanner

Many people all over the world do not have immediate and easy access to health care. For some, that means thinking of creative ways of contributing toward taking better care of ourselves and improving response times to reacting to potential illness, like via this handheld, personal body temperature detector. Build a device to check your own skin temperature GitHub user Gilbert François created a…

May 05, 2020 / 7 min

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Put friends and loved ones on the big screen with this instant video call project

Maybe you know someone who doesn’t know their Hangouts from their Skype, or who doesn’t have any internet connected devices at all, but would love to see you on a video call. How about connecting a TV and webcam to a Raspberry Pi and turning it into a video window you can remotely administer? Let’s go! For some households, having the whole family crowd round a tablet to video call friends or…

April 29, 2020 / 10 min

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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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Local Mode and livepush make balenaCloud app development faster

Editor's Note, 25 March 2021: Edge developers can now access balenaBlocks pre-built containerized services ready to drop into new applications. Check them out on balenaHub. Developing containerized applications can be time-consuming, particularly when they have multiple services and you want to ensure they run properly on different platforms and IoT devices. With balenaCloud Local Mode and…

March 13, 2020 / 7 min

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Build an AI-driven object detection algorithm with balenaOS and alwaysAI

This guide will show you how to set up a neural network model that runs an object detection algorithm in real time. We’ll be leveraging balenaOS and alwaysAI’s platform to greatly simplify the process. In this guide we build a an AI-driven neural network model running object detection using balena and alwaysAI Some prep work In a previous article, we showed you how to easily get started with…

March 12, 2020 / 10 min

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Get started with computer vision and machine learning using balenaOS and alwaysAI

We’ll show you a simplified overview of computer vision and deep learning, and the easiest way to get started using balenaOS and alwaysAI. This guide combines the powers of balena with alwaysAI’s platform to get a project up and running quickly on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano. Go from “zero” to “AI hero” in just a blog post! Get started with computer vision and deep learning with balenaOS and alwaysAI…

March 03, 2020 / 11 min

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Getting Started with the NVIDIA Jetson Nano using balena

UPDATED 11 Jan 2023: Note that as of 11 January 2023, we have an updated guide here with a more streamlined method to accomplish the examples in this post, as well as more background information about using NVIDIA Jetson devices with balena. When you’re building applications to run on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano, you’ll often have a list of underlying libraries and dependencies such as CUDA, OpenCV…

February 26, 2020 / 7 min

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Skycatch: navigating at-scale fleet management challenges using balena

Skycatch relies on balena to operate thousands of drones and edge devices that digitally image, process, and map industrial job sites. Learn how balena helps them remove the friction of at-scale device and fleet management so they can focus on serving customers and improve their unique GNSS and imagery platform. About Skycatch Skycatch provides a platform to companies, like Skansa and Komatsu, to…

February 25, 2020 / 3 min

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Build your own multi-room audio system with Bluetooth, Airplay, and Spotify using Raspberry Pis

Last updated: 6th October 2020 Turn your spare Raspberry Pis and speakers into a fleet of synchronized multi-room audio players. You can start from scratch or upgrade an existing balenaSound device to add the multi-room functionality for free! Before you start Updates We’re continually updating this post along with the project code, you can find a log of all our updates below. 6th October 202…

February 17, 2020 / 8 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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How to create a Minecraft Server for the Raspberry Pi 4 with balena

This project and guide is a community contribution by Alex K., aka AlexProgrammerDE. Check out his GitHub page, his GitHub repository, and give a Star. Enjoy the guide. If you want to host your own Minecraft Server -- all from a Raspberry Pi -- this project is for you! Try the balena Minecraft Server, a starter project to quickly and easily create a Minecraft Server and use SCP and RCON to manage…

January 31, 2020 / 11 min

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Are you buying the right devices for your IoT workloads?

There was a time when IoT devices were merely low-powered boards capable of doing a single chore, albeit in far-flung locales. Today, boards like the balenaFin, Raspberry Pi 3 and 4, and NVIDIA are powerful multi-core microcomputers with plenty of horsepower to spare. How do you decide which is best for your application? How do you know which device you need to fit your IoT workload? The capacity…

January 24, 2020 / 9 min

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How to use balenaCloud container contracts in mixed-device environments to fine-tune your fleet

If you’re like most folks running an IoT environment, you have a mix of devices that don’t always support the same services and drivers, despite their common architecture. With balenaCloud container contracts, you can set rules that prevent devices from getting upgrades that make them fail -- and keep your entire fleet healthy. High-level diagram of how container contracts works With balenaCloud…

January 21, 2020 / 5 min

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Running OpenWebRX on balena to remotely monitor local radio spectrum

Combine a Raspberry Pi and an inexpensive SDR (Software-Defined Radio) dongle to create a remote monitoring device that you can place anywhere in the world (with internet access) to view the surrounding radio spectrum and stream audio from some of the detected signals. Combine balena and OpenWebRX to create a remote radio monitoring, visualization, and listening device It hosts a small web server…

January 15, 2020 / 9 min

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Two projects, one device: turn your Raspberry Pi into a multitool!

Built one of our projects, and want to expand upon it? Perhaps you want to build a second one, but lack the hardware? Fear not! One of the great benefits of balenaCloud is that you can combine different projects and run everything on one device. In this short guide, we’re going to take a look at how to run multiple projects on a single device, allowing you to do more with the hardware you already…

January 07, 2020 / 10 min

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balenaCloud ESR: Get peace of mind with only two OS updates a year

balenaCloud Extended Support Release process is here We’re excited to announce the Extended Support Release (ESR) line of operating system for Production and Enterprise fleets using balenaCloud. ESR makes it easier for at-scale fleet owners to have a more predictable OS update schedule while ensuring critical security or bug fixes are not missed. Who does ESR affect the most? This new OS release…

December 03, 2019 / 4 min

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Build an “LED Alerter” for your remote work office setup

With many people now working from home due to recent events, it would be useful to have a device that alerts household members when we are on a call, in a meeting, or are otherwise preoccupied. In this tutorial we will build a web-controlled set of LEDs that you can use whenever you need to send a visual signal of your availability to someone in the next room (or on the other side of the world…

November 21, 2019 / 17 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