65 posts tagged with “project”

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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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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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Build a heartrate monitor using an e-ink reader, a Raspberry Pi, and balena

Are you looking to decrease your stress and improve your mental well-being? Follow along with my DIY guide for monitoring your heart rate during the work day! Introducing balenaHealth, a heart rate monitor based on balena and a Raspberry Pi I built a heart rate monitoring system for my home office using balena technology as part of my balenaLabs Residence. Use the steps from this guide to follow…

January 12, 2022 / 15 min

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Interfacing balena edge devices with AdafruitIO

If you’re someone like me who can solder wires together, and knows how to program a single board computer to blink addressable LEDs, but always struggles when it comes to creating a beautiful front-end user interface to control them over the web, this blog post is for you. Learn how to use AdafruitIO to interface with balena devices Let’s explore how to interface edge devices on balena using…

January 06, 2022 / 7 min

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Build a self-hosted, voice-controlled mood tracker using Rhasspy and balena

Mood trackers keep a record of a person's mood at regular intervals. Their purpose is to help look for patterns in mood variations over time caused by different situations and circumstances. However, manually feeding data into a mood tracker can be a cumbersome task, and some people may have privacy concerns about using third-party mood tracking services. In this blog post, I’ll show how I…

November 24, 2021 / 17 min

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Improve your sleep (or other parts of your life) with automated curtains at home

While there are plenty of home automation lighting projects out there to help you automate and control LEDs, I wanted to control something physical within the home - curtains or blinds. Check out my balenaLabs residency project where I prototype a way to automate curtain or blind movement to adjust the heat and light that enters my home. Why is this important? Circadian rhythm is an important…

October 28, 2021 / 15 min

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How to use BLE to communicate between an Arduino running Edge Impulse and a Pi running balenaOS

In this post, we’ll look at how Edge Impulse and balena work together and what led me down the path to improvise a solution using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) so the two could communicate with each other. Illustration of Edge Impulse and balena project I’ve been fascinated by the work of Edge Impulse, which is a platform that allows devices such as microcontrollers and single board computers to…

September 30, 2021 / 7 min

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How I built a video game prototype with custom hardware and balena

I’ve been wanting to make this alternative controller game for a while and found the perfect opportunity to do so at balena. Read on to learn about my idea, how I used balena to prototype my project, and what next steps I’ll take to bring this edge project to life. Animated GIF of project My game is about an ancient spirit trapped inside of an ornate brick. The picture below shows some concept art…

September 27, 2021 / 11 min

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How to run edge AI with OpenVINO on balenaCloud

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process from start to finish and show you how to deploy an AI application using an Intel NUC and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit, fully containerized and ready to scale to any number of devices with balenaCloud. Developers getting ready to begin AI projects have no shortage of options when it comes to platforms, frameworks, models, and sample…

July 27, 2021 / 18 min

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balenaSense v2: Updated temperature, pressure, and humidity monitoring for Raspberry Pi

Welcome to version 2.0 of balenaSense, featuring a number of radical changes that rendered previous guides somewhat outdated. Using an outdated guide is no fun, so, we present a new project tutorial for balenaSense v2. balenaSense was designed to make it easy to take temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and other readings from sensors and provide a dashboard to see this information at a…

July 09, 2021 / 17 min

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Keep your plant-friends happy and healthy with automated watering: balenaPlant

Even when you remember to water your plants, did you water too much? Not enough? This project combines a Raspberry Pi, balenaBlocks, environmental sensors, and water pump automation to help keep your plants watered with a data-driven touch. Meet balenaPlant Access a dashboard showing your plant data from anywhere in the world using balenaCloud. Add new plant monitors quickly and easily using the…

January 27, 2021 / 10 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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Receive and store LoRa sensor data from TTN using a Raspberry Pi (part 2)

Back in the first part of this series, we detailed the process of building a simple LoRa-connected weather station to monitor temperature, humidity, and pressure, and send the readings to The Things Stack (TTS). In this second part, we’re going to take a look at how you can capture that data, record it and produce a dashboard and graphs to visualize the data. Note: 28th June 2021: The Things…

October 28, 2020 / 9 min

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Build a simple solar-powered weather station with LoRa & The Things Stack (part 1)

We’ve covered a couple of ways to build a LoRa gateway for The Things Stack (TTS) here on the blog and on YouTube, but what about if you want to take advantage of your own gateway and deploy some sensors in your home or garden? Build a simple solar-powered weather station This two-part series will explore how to build a simple, solar-powered weather station, and in the second part, set up a way to…

October 27, 2020 / 11 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