Balena on Nico Maas

balenaOS on the Advantech AIR-020X

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:20:44 +0000

Last week I posted the review of the Advantech AIR-020X with which I used to create the labSentinel 2 system.

I remarked that the hardware was great, however the software support and update capability of the system was severly lagging behind for an “industrial floor, always on” type of machine. Luckily, thats exactly what balena has been created for.

Even better, their environment already support Nvidia Jetson devices - also Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX modules. With the AIR-020X being a really nice carrierboard (and housing) for this module, I went to work.

[PiAndRadio] Raspberry Pi GPS Time Server

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:15:00 +0000

Here is my presentation to the gpsTime Balena Project @ PiAndRadio 2021 (11.09.2021)

gpsTime_PiAndRadio2021.pdf

gpsTime

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:05:33 +0000

I think there is nothing more pleasing than having extremely precise measurements at your fingertips. Like time. While in the past it was quite problematic to measure time accurately (not talking about sundials, but… why not? ;)) - mankind has created one precise time source as the byproduct (read: “waste”) for usage in accurate navigation: GNSS and their different kinds like GPS, Glonass, Galileo, BaiDou and others.

Taping into this time source and providing it to your local computer network via NTP has been done by countless people and is an extreme rewarding task. Is it necessary? Maybe not. Is it really cool? Yes. And now it is even easier as you don’t need to configure it yourself, but can use the balenaHub and the preconfigured gpsTime project.

[Talk] resin(io|os) and Fin Presentation

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 07:08:18 +0000

Here is my presentation about resin.io, resinOS, balena and Fin @ the internal DLR “Erfahrungsaustausch Workshop - Software-Entwicklung V: Embedded Systems” (Bremen, 16.05.2018)

resin_DLR_EAW_SE_V.pdf (6,07 MB, PDF)

[Talk] resin(io|os) Presentation

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:26:05 +0000

Here is my presentation about resin.io, resinOS and balena @ Docker & Kubernetes Meetup Feb 2018 (Heidelberg, 20.02.2018)

resin_DKM2018.pdf (2,57 MB, PDF)

Videorecording of the talk can be found here