7 posts tagged with “edge development”

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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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balenaPodcast episode 03: Open hardware and empowering humanity with technology

Our guest, Jason Kridner, Co-founder of BeagleBoard, joined Alex Marinos, CEO and Founder of balena, to discuss overcoming supply chain issues and artificial barriers to technology, the future of open, modular hardware, and how technology should empower (and not limit) humanity. Watch the full episode embedded above or on YouTube. You can also listen to the audio version on Spotify, Apple Podcasts…

September 09, 2021 / 69 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

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Five ways you can contribute to the balena community

Calling all balenaCloud and openbalena users-- we’d love to hear from you and see what amazing things you’re doing with the platform. Learn five ways you can contribute to the balena community, share your work with the world, and get some cool swag while you’re at it. Why should you contribute? We’re always on the lookout for community members who do amazing things with balena, like create edge…

June 09, 2021 / 5 min

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balenaBlocks in-depth: Sensor and Pulse

In this post, we introduce the sensor and pulse blocks, both designed to make it easy to bring data from sensors and other equipment into your projects. We’ll also look at the decisions made during the development of these blocks in order to keep their setup and usage simple, as well as a few example projects that utilize multiple blocks. In a previous post we introduced balenaBlocks, which are…

May 04, 2021 / 13 min

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How balenaSound inspired the audio block

In this blog post, we’ll explain how the audio block came to be. We’ll put on our IoT fleet owner shoes, dive deep into balenaSound’s history, and show you how one of our most popular projects helped build the very first balenaBlock. As you may already know, our mission statement at balena is to “reduce friction for fleet owners and unlock the power of physical computing.” Creating IoT…

April 19, 2021 / 8 min

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How we develop balenaCloud, using balenaCloud

In this post, we'll show you how we use our own platform to build our infrastructure and provide our engineering team with a reliable development environment. Find out how we optimised and refined the configuration of our software stack so the entire balenaCloud platform can run on balenaCloud and even on the balenaFin. Project BoB - Meta-Platforming Ourselves About a year ago, I was chatting with…

March 28, 2019 / 12 min