58 posts tagged with “community”

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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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balena monthly roundup - September 2022

BalenaEngine is a fork from Moby Project, which deprecated the use of the aufs storage driver with the 19.03.x release series. Because of this balenaOS is also looking to deprecate the use of AUFS. Read more about this and how it might affect your devices in our latest blog. Also in this month's email: Two new IoT project tutorials Find out which events we’re attending this month New Fleets and…

September 16, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - August 2022

You might remember that a little while ago we renamed balenaCloud “applications” to Fleets. This month we surfaced a new concept on balenaHub and balenaCloud: Apps. Apps are a response to a specific use case, built out of many services or balenaBlocks, and are self-contained, doing only their job on a single device. Read more about Apps and the road to multi-app on our blog. Also in this month's…

August 11, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - July 2022

balenaOS is now (since v2.85) available in a single unified image that can be configured at runtime for development or production mode. We’re moving on from maintaining both development and production images to reduce operational overhead as well as giving us a better understanding of how our users would manage an image in production. Instead, you can now access development mode via runtime…

July 12, 2022 / 4 min

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Partnering with RPI graduate students to explore customer projection models

Over the past semester, we’ve worked with students studying business analytics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to build customer projections. Genadi Naydenov (my fellow data-focused balenista) and I partnered with RPI’s Lally School of Management in their Supply Chain Capstone course. Professor T. Ravichandran, teaches the course and mentored the student team in this project…

July 01, 2022 / 2 min

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balena monthly roundup - June 2022

This month, balenaForums member bversluijs shared his expertise on using openbalena to manage fleets and to prototype ideas. In his blog post he teaches you how to use an external AWS S3 provider for openbalena instead of using the integrated Minio S3 container. Check out the whole tutorial here. Also in this months email: Connect a Seeed sensor to monitor your garden Bring your model railroad…

June 14, 2022 / 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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balena monthly roundup - May 2022

Here at balena, we have noticed fleets of Helium miners and LoRaWAN gateways growing enormously over the last year. Helium is a crowdsourced LoRaWAN network running on blockchain where people personally host Helium hotspots to provide network coverage. If you don’t have yours yet, check out our blog post where we show you how to deploy a fleet of Helium data-only hotspots on Raspberry Pi and Seeed…

May 16, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - April 2022

Any block published to balenaHub is now available to download directly as a container image, no additional registry pushes required. The balenaHub Container Registry also includes image release management and image references that you can use directly in your docker-compose files. Also in this months email: Build an autonomous vehicle (DonkeyCar!) Build an automated LED Sunlamp EtcherPro is now…

April 12, 2022 / 3 min

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balena monthly roundup - March 2022

When you log in to the balenaCloud dashboard, you’ll see Blocks are now a primary entity. We created Blocks, drop in chunks of functionality which are common across many IoT applications, to help jumpstart your IoT app development. Now you can add and manage blocks using all of the same tools you are familiar with for managing a fleet on balenaHub. Also in this months email: Tracking your habits…

March 16, 2022 / 3 min

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balena monthly roundup - February 2022

We’re constantly improving our dashboard to help you, our user. See the notice that tells you of a new version of the dashboard? We merge and deploy changes once they’re ready so you can benefit from improvements straight away. Check out the new changelog by clicking the version number on the bottom left corner of the dashboard to see not only what the change was but also why it was made. In this…

February 16, 2022 / 5 min

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balena monthly roundup - January 2022

Hello dear readers, This month, by popular demand, we’re teaching you how to use balenaOS with Nvidia GPUs on an x86 device. Check out our balenaHub Challenge finalists, our latest balenaPodcast episode with ideamarket.io, and learn how to use Adafruit IO on your next balena project. As always, check out our latest balenaHub additions, community highlights, and check out the new job opportunities…

January 14, 2022 / 3 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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balena monthly roundup - December 2021

Hello dear readers, It's time to vote for your favorite projects on balenaHub: simply join or fork interesting Fleets and Projects. Also, try adding Raspberry Pi Zero 2 Ws to your balenaCloud fleets, go behind the scenes of our balenaLabs residencies, and check out some last-minute holiday gift inspiration. As always, you can join us on the IoT Project Clinic, Fridays at 4pm UTC, to see us working…

December 15, 2021 / 4 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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balena monthly roundup - November 2021

Hello dear readers,Remember, balenaHub Challenge entries (for a chance to win cash and be featured on Etcher) are due at the end of November. Good luck and have fun! Catch up with a few of our virtual workshops from the last few weeks below. From the Labs, we have a home curtain automation project and a sneak peek at a robotics-focused balenaBlock. As always, see our community highlights and open…

November 16, 2021 / 5 min