Hello, readers!
We’re excited to announce
balenaHub: find and deploy ready-made edge and IoT projects made by product builders like you, or share your own app with the world. Try it out!
Check out our
holiday gift guide if you need ideas and see some interesting balena community spotlights below. Happy holidays, everyone.
News from balenaHQ
Introducing balenaHub
As part of
Release Party #2, we assembled and launched balenaHub, a new way to find edge and IoT projects that are proven, and ready to deploy. Or you can submit your own project to share with the community.
Announcing EtcherPro pre-order date: 5 Jan 2021
We’re starting the new year by accepting pre-order requests for
EtcherPro starting on 5 Jan 2021. Follow along on our journey to launching EtcherPro
on the forums.
The latest from our blog
Create an audio analysis project using AI
AI-driven audio analysis can quantify the world around us by sound. Imagine measuring noise pollution or predicting machine failure all with Coral, balena, and a microphone.
Build your own Scratch server for one person or a whole classroom
Scratch is a popular way for young students to practice coding and systematic problem solving. Now you can load up Scratch on a Raspberry Pi using balena-- educators can build just one or an entire fleet easily.
Get a closer look at balenaFin’s networking capabilities
Our custom carrier board, balenaFin, has certain networking capabilities that prepare it for industrial, remote environments. Take a closer look.
Charlie's Tips N Tricks
You can use Deploy with balena
to also deploy a specific branch of a project with different configurations. This can be very handy when debugging your application or developing new features.
To deploy a project from a specific branch using a customized balena.yml
, use the following url structure:
https://dashboard.balena-cloud.com/deploy?tarballUrl=<repo url>/archive/<branch name>.tar.gz&repoUrl=<repo url>&configUrl=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<org>/<repo name>/<branch name>/balena.yml
You can read more about the options used above in
our docs.
Projects of the month
Let's take a moment to applaud:
Thanks for being a part of our first set of balenaHub apps. Check out all the apps on
balenaHub or submit your own.
It’s that time of the year-- festive lights!
For a more hands-on approach, check out this
recent IoT Happy Hour, where the team answered some community questions on how to prepare an app for balenaHub.
Glad to be a part of the dual boot adventure
Job opening: Lead Security Engineer
We’re looking for a number of roles for our growing team. Could any of these fit you?
Check them out or introduce yourself to us via open call. We’d love to get to know you better.
Hang out with us
Join us for IoT Happy Hour
We’re postponing our physical events to practice safe social distancing and keep our team safe and healthy. Instead, meet with us virtually during our weekly IoT Happy Hour!
Every Friday at 16:00 UTC, join our live stream to see IoT project builds, discuss hardware and software, talk shop, answer community questions, and more. All of our previous episodes are available on our
YouTube channel, too.