Tag: hardware
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The balenaFin v1.1 available to order, featuring dual camera support, PoE, and more!
Today we officially release the balenaFin- our carrier board designed for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 & 3+!
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Automate the backlight timer on your balenaDash display
Learn how to adjust the backlight setting on balenaDash via balenaCloud for one device- or your entire fleet of displays.
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Create a GPS tracking system with cell connectivity and minimal bandwidth
We’re going to build a GPS tracking system using a balenaFin board- balenaCloud and a Hologram SIM card.
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Build festive lighting for the holidays with balena
In this post we’re going to take a look at setting up a custom RGB LED matrix and driving it with a Raspberry Pi- Fadecandy board and Glediator software.
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State of the EtcherPro
Catch up on the state of EtcherPro in 2018- and get a closer look on what we have in store for our massive hardware project.
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Assembling the official Raspberry Pi touchscreen
This is a guide to cover connecting and configuring the official Raspberry Pi 7′ touchscreen- along with rotating the LCD output in balenaCloud.
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Make a web frame with Raspberry Pi in 30 minutes
Use this guide to build an addressable web frame with a Raspberry Pi- supported display- and balena in 30 minutes!
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Introducing Project Fin: a board for fleet owners
——————————————————————————– Update February 2019: we have now officially launched the balenaFin v1.1 – read the announcement here [https://www.balena.io/blog/announcing-balenafin-v1-1/] or buy now [https://store.balena.io/] ——————————————————————————– Today is an incredibly exciting day for the balena team- one we’ve been working towards for a while: we’re announcing balena’s first entr
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The Evolution of the Beast Continues
TLDR: the Beast is a single board computer cluster designed as a testing and demo rig for resin.io [https://resin.io]. We built Beast v1- with 120 Raspberry Pis- back in 2014 [https://resin.io/blog/what-would-you-do-with-a-120-raspberry-pi-cluster/] and started working on the next iteration- Beast v2- with 144 Raspberry Pis- about a year later [https://resin.io/blog/good-better-beast/]. Now we’re designing Beast v3 and…
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The making of Boombeastic: a Raspberry Pi-based connected speaker
A high-quality- stand-alone- fast-prototyped- connected speaker Preface On a June hack Friday [https://resin.io/blog/hack-friday-september/] I decided to prototype a Raspberry Pi based speaker that could become a hack-friendly platform for the community. I was also interested in experimenting with a fast-prototyping approach involving resin.io [https://resin.io]. My goals for the project were to: * Achieve good sound…