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Never lose your stuff again: tracking Bluetooth beacons with a Raspberry Pi
Never lose something important to you again by using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and Raspberry Pi sensors to track your stuff. Are your keys at home or in the office? By following this guide,...
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Build a Scratch server using a Raspberry Pi and balena
Ever wonder what an 8-year-old child would build if you taught them balena? Building their very own Scratch server is at the top of the list. All it took was some encouragement, a Raspberry Pi, and...
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Introducing balenaBlocks: jumpstart your IoT app development
Our mission at balena is to “reduce friction for fleet owners and unlock the power of physical computing”– it’s what guides every balenista’s work. However, there’s still complexity to be found in...
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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...
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balenaLabs Residencies: our quest to improve onboarding at balena
Onboarding is more than learning your new role and meeting teammates. It’s also about managing your own expectations, that of others, and finding a way to get as much context about your new role and...
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Blocks: new management functionality and a public roadmap for what’s next
Today, our concept for IoT app enablement graduates from a concept to a first-class entity in the balenaCloud dashboard, with plenty of exciting roads still left to travel. This post is about what you...
View ArticleRecent organisational changes at balena
Balena has been going through a period of change over the past year. The most notable is a change of leadership at the company with Alexandros Marinos stepping down from the role of CEO and moving into...
View ArticleBalena Update
And just like that, in a blink of an eye, 8 months have passed and I’m only now sitting down to write an update on how balena is doing. It was never my intention to wait this long, but as co-CEO, I’ve...
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Balena Summit 2024
What is a Summit? Balena is a fully remote, distributed team, and has always been so. When most of the world was leaving offices and working out how to do remote meetings in 2020, balena was business...
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Balena’s ‘why’
Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. By WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief – WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And...
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