20 posts tagged with “Consumer Electronics”

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Comparing performance of Jetson GPUs on balena

The NVIDIA Jetson is a popular IoT device for machine learning on the edge, and balenaOS supports over a dozen different models including the new Orin series. There’s plenty of benchmarks, specifications and marketing material available to ascertain the relative computing power of all the different NVIDIA Jetson devices. You’ll often find charts that compare AI performance in TOPS, GPU cores, CUDA…

September 06, 2023 / 5 min

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Running An AI Model On The Jetson GPU And CPU Simultaneously

There’s a popular breakfast dish in Philadelphia known as scrapple, which consists of pork scraps and trimmings - all the leftover parts of meat after butchering that could not be used or sold elsewhere to avoid waste. An AI project that we presented last year reminds me of scrapple because its goal is the same - leave no waste and utilize every bit of computing power of a NVIDIA Jetson Nano. This…

July 14, 2023 / 5 min

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Using balenaOS Amazon AWS AMIs

Back in February, we wrote a post about the then-new availability of BalenaOS Amazon Machine Images (AMI) for Amazon AWS. In this post, we’ll examine in more detail what AMIs are, why you would want to use them with balenaOS, as well as an example use case you can try out for yourself. Post header image What is an AMI? We will start out with the assumption that you are already familiar with Amazon…

June 12, 2023 / 9 min

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Using NVIDIA Jetson NGC containers on balenaOS

Balena’s container-based technology streamlines development, deployment, and management of IoT Linux devices. However, when those devices include NVIDIA Jetson-based AI carrier boards and modules, there is the additional challenge of configuring an ML software stack such as PyTorch or TensorFlow and all of its underlying dependencies. BSP drivers, JetPack versions and CUDA libraries must match…

May 05, 2023 / 15 min

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Deploy AI to edge fleets with balena's OpenVINO app

OpenVINO™ is an open-source toolkit developed by Intel for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing. It includes everything needed for developing AI applications, model optimization, and running inferencing on a device. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of deploying, tweaking, and testing OpenVINO AI models using the balena platform. Our example project, balena-openvino, is intended…

January 17, 2023 / 6 min

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How to use NVIDIA Jetson devices on balena

The Jetson line of modules brings accelerated AI to edge devices, allowing for truly innovative uses for IoT devices. The balena platform supports these modules (Nano, TX2, Xavier, Orin), enabling you to deploy, maintain, and update fleets of one to hundreds of thousands with ease. This is the third update of our series about how to use Jetson devices on the balena platform. How to use edge AI…

January 11, 2023 / 17 min

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How to use NVIDIA Jetson devices on balena

Access the full capabilities of Jetson devices in balenaCloud. Recent versions of balenaOS provide easy access to JetPack components, giving your containers access to the GPU’s power. Learn how to build a project to start accessing a world of AI tools, including CUDA and OpenCV, below. How to use edge AI tools with NVIDIA and balenaOS Hardware refresher Nvidia Jetson is a series of embedded…

December 15, 2020 / 14 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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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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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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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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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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Rapid prototyping a GPS tracker with balenaOS: a community perspective

Our guest community author, Xabier Crespo of SC Robotics, walks through a GPS project that uses Docker and balenaOS, written in Python. Learn more about their prototyping process using balenaOS and try the project. My name is Xabier Crespo and I’m a co-founder at SC Robotics, a small consulting firm which develops electronics and embedded systems. We work on a lot of IoT (and IIoT) projects and…

July 08, 2020 / 14 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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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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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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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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Control your Christmas tree: A Raspberry Pi powered RGB LED matrix v2

Build and animate your own web and remote-controllable lighting from commonly available RGB LED strings and a Raspberry Pi. We’re going to go through the process of building a fully-configurable 10x25 LED matrix with a graphical configurator to run animations and patterns. Introduction Last year, I wrote a blog post showing how to build an RGB LED matrix. Since then, we’ve developed the project…

December 23, 2019 / 9 min

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How Bosch remotely manages and deploys to IoT devices at scale with balena

Learn how Bosch uses balena as part of their IoT fleet management and devops solutions. Bosch is a world leading multinational engineering and electronics company who invests heavily in IoT; developing innovative solutions for smart homes, cities and manufacturing. Part of this research and development is looking for new business approaches in the context of industrial IoT, and in one such…

November 19, 2019 / 2 min