It's Notion meets physical computing. Use the Notion API and balena to log sensor and weather data captured from your edge device. | Continue reading
Learn how QVNTRA has leveraged balena to scale their solution to managing the aging population. | Continue reading
A cross-platform tool for flashing images to SD cards & USB drives. | Continue reading
Earlier today, we announced our decision to recall all v1.1 balenaFins due to a USB malfunction at high temperatures. If you think your balenaFin might be affected, please follow the instructions outlined here. This issue prevents affected balenaFins from accessing any USB periph … | Continue reading
Here's how to turn a Geiger counter into a desktop radiation monitor powered by a Raspberry Pi. Take a look at this steampunk-inspired project up close. | Continue reading
Use this guide to share your usb printer over your network using a Raspberry Pi and print from any device on your network! | Continue reading
Distributing shifts fairly and efficiently between a team of people has been a long standing challenge. With the rise of remote working and the distribution of teams across different time zones, this challenge has become exponentially more difficult. It’s an awful problem to solv … | Continue reading
Adding Bluetooth to your IoT project usually means developing native applications to interact with your devices. However, the new Web Bluetooth API specification allows web browsers to communicate directly with Bluetooth Low Energy devices. While the specification is not finalize … | Continue reading
On the 13th June 2019, a rocket launched from Kiruna, Sweden, carrying 280kg of scientific experiments; among them, a Raspberry Pi Zero running Docker containers on balenaOS. To our knowledge this is the first time a Moby/Docker container engine has been flown to space! Nico Maas … | Continue reading
Today, we are excited to announce the release of 64-bit balenaOS for the Raspberry Pi 4, providing support for the full 4GB of memory and allowing the simultaneous, side-by-side running of 32-bit and 64-bit Docker containers - a first for the Raspberry Pi 4! BalenaOS is an open-s … | Continue reading
We’re incredibly excited to announce that we’ve just closed a $14.4m Series B investment round, led by OpenView with participation from our existing investors including Threshold Ventures, Aspect Ventures, and GE Ventures. Balena’s mission is to unlock the potential of physical … | Continue reading
A cross-platform tool for flashing images to SD cards & USB drives. | Continue reading
In 2017, we (balena) embarked on a mission to build the ultimate flashing media. As a software company, we didn't realize the hornet's nest that we had stepped into. Little did we anticipate that in the process, we would end up re-examining the wheel at every step, going through … | Continue reading
Build your own UK train station platform departure display (next train indicator) with live data using a Raspberry Pi Zero, OLED display and 3D printed case - a cool (and practical!) desktop gadget. It involves a bit of software, a bit of soldering, and some 3D printing too. Cont … | Continue reading
If you’ve got an old Hi-Fi or sound system with an AUX input, this project is for you. Try balenaSound, a starter project to quickly and easily add Bluetooth to an old Hi-Fi, speakers, or any other audio device using only a Raspberry Pi! Contents Before you start Introduction | Continue reading
Try this project to get up and running with a display you can control remotely to display photos, videos, dashboards, web pages, and digital signage. This tutorial was put together by the friendly folks at Screenly. They've recently updated their open-source digital signage softw … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago we released a project called balena Cam where @mbalamat developed an application running on balenaOS that initiates a WebRTC video streaming connection between the server (a Raspberry Pi, for example) and the client. You can check the full blog post here. Once the … | Continue reading
This project is the first in a three-part series that explores in depth how to log data from sensors with embedded Linux and a container-based architecture. You'll learn how to connect a sensor to a Linux board and read data from it, how to store and graph sensor data with | Continue reading
Some times combinatorial explosion is your friend. Today we are proud to announce the release of over 26,000 new base images under the balenalib namespace over on DockerHub. Over the last 4 years we've been maintaining and nurturing the most comprehensive set of base images for … | Continue reading
Interested in building an LED lighting project with Raspberry Pi? We’ve got you covered! 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. For the longest time I’ | Continue reading
Today we’re excited to announce that resin.io is becoming balena. That’s right, we’re changing our name! Coinciding with the new name, we’re also releasing a beta version of openBalena, the open source edition of our core platform. Our team just returned home from our annual | Continue reading