13 posts tagged with “newsletter”

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balena monthly roundup - May 2020

Hey there, everyone! In case you missed it, we launched Fold for Covid-- an easy way to contribute your spare computing power (PCs, laptops, single-board devices) to Rosetta@home and support vital COVID-19 research. Check it out and #jointhefold! For the tinkerers out there, we launched an LED Alerter project to help prevent office intrusions or interruptions during remote work. We added a few new…

May 06, 2020 / 7 min

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balena monthly roundup - April 2020

Let’s start by sharing some of the amazing work balena customers are doing to improve accessibility to home testing for COVID-19, advance disease research tools, and increase access to medical equipment. We also asked our own team of experts at balena (we’re 100% remote) directly for work-from-home tips to help those who can’t commute to their offices. Team balena is grateful, proud, and…

April 01, 2020 / 5 min

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balena monthly roundup - February 2020

We hope 2020 is off to a great start! This month we’re talking Container Contracts, Software-Defined Radio (SDR), and figuring out how to get the most from our edge devices. “By the beard of Zeus-- what’s a container contract?!” we hear you cry, but fear not-- we cover the feature in this blog post on how to make conditional updates to your fleet. If you’re curious about SDR, check out this guide…

February 05, 2020 / 5 min

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balena monthly roundup - January 2020

Happy new year! It’s great to be starting another fresh new year, but what a year 2019 was; we released balenaFin v1.1, added edge device diagnostics, released livepush, secured funding to grow our team, saw balena operated from space, and released the first 64-bit OS for RaspberryPi 4. Phew! We’re pushing into 2020 and working hard to bring the next batch of game-changing IoT developments to…

January 14, 2020 / 5 min

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balena monthly roundup - December 2019

Greetings to thee, faithful reader! We bring ye good tidings in the final balena newsletter of 2019! This month brings product news for fleet owners, the latest from our blog, and as always, the latest from you out in the community. Of particular interest this month is our Bosch case study, where you can read how this multinational engineering and electronics company uses balena to deploy software…

December 09, 2019 / 6 min

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balena monthly roundup - November 2019

Happy November, everyone! Welcome to another packed update from team balena. We’re all freshly back from our annual summit, which this year (for the second time) was in Barcelona, and we're ready for another year working hard to make life easier for all you IoT fleet owners out there. See the balena team at work It’s was a great opportunity for our new team members to get on board and meet their…

November 12, 2019 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - October 2019

What’s happening, everyone? We hope you had a good month. It’s time for another update from balena-land. The first thing I want to mention this month is our Barcelona Hackathon 2019, tickets are selling fast and so if you want to join us, make sure to head over to the Eventbrite page as soon as you can. We’ve been busy digging into the power circuitry on the balenaFin, working with a mixed 32 and…

October 10, 2019 / 6 min

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balena monthly roundup - September 2019

Big news from balenaHQ! Since the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 back in June we’ve been working tirelessly to bring support to balenaOS. Our work has resulted in the first, fully-functional, 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 4, allowing you to mix and match multiple container architectures on this new device. In addition to this groundbreaking work, we’ve put together a very detailed account of the…

September 16, 2019 / 6 min

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balena monthly roundup - August 2019

Oh my, it’s hard to believe it’s only been a month since we last emailed as so much has happened! We’re excited to give you all a quick roundup of everything you shouldn’t miss out on. Perhaps the biggest news of the month is that we closed our series B investment round which means we’re now looking to grow the team and have a bunch of open positions. We’ve built a cool digital photo frame for…

August 14, 2019 / 7 min

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balena monthly roundup - July 2019

Happy Summer Solstice to the Northern Hemisphere, and happy Winter Solstice to the Southern Hemisphere. Regardless of where you are in the world and how hot or cold it is, we have some tasty treats for you this month! We’ve been busy hacking dummy security cameras, combining data from air quality sensors and setting up digital signs. News from balenaHQ Shaun's secrets One of the little known…

July 02, 2019 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - June 2019

What’s happening, folks? Here’s your monthly dose of balena-fuelled projects and tutorials! This month we’re building LoRa gateways, monitoring the edge and deploying sensors, with balenaCloud. In addition to that our community has been building robots, testing robots and running Swift on Raspberry Pi. Take a look at all this great content and let us know what you think in the breakroom. See you…

June 07, 2019 / 5 min

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balena monthly roundup - May 2019

OK, so we’re a little late for Star Wars day, but we do have a record month in terms of content. You, our community, have continued to build amazing things on the balenaCloud platform and our team has been busy working on some interesting blog posts too. We’ve got a lot to cover so let’s get to it! News from balenaHQ Now shipping: all balenaFin v1.1 variants, available in volume Last month we…

May 14, 2019 / 6 min

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balena monthly roundup - April 2019

We’re fully out of Winter hibernation now (for those of the team in the Northern hemisphere, anyway), and have been working tirelessly to deploy new features, and to create new projects and demos for you. We’ve got balenaSense which uses InfluxDB and Grafana to make pretty charts of air quality, some great examples of deploying X11 apps and accessing them via VNC, some new diagnostic tools in the…

April 11, 2019 / 5 min