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.

Taming the RAK5146 / SX1303

Sun, 08 May 2022 09:21:28 +0000

Its been a while - but good things come to those who wait :) .

Trying to work out a new system you’re unfamiliar with can be quite a challenge. In my case I got my first LoRaWAN concentrator along with some CubeCell HTCC-AB01 and tried to get them to work. It turned out - it was quite hit and miss. On the one hand, the firmware support for the RAK5146 with USB, GPS and LBT was not really ready yet - on the other hand, the CubeCell Arduino code has a fatal flaw with the preamble size so that those cannot join a LoRa network if used in EU868 MHz Band (the perfect fix by 1rabbit is linked as well!).

[Talk] IoT Happy Hour #63: balena Ambassador Projects

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 08:10:38 +0000

I took part in balena’s IoT Happy Hour #63 on 30.07.2021 to talk with balenas Marc and David - as well as DynamicDevices Alex about Bees, gpsTime and space communications.

You can watch the talk here on balenas Youtube channel.

[Talk] IoT Happy Hour #56: balena in Space

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:00:19 +0000

I took part in balena’s IoT Happy Hour #56 on 11.06.2021 to talk about the past, present and upcoming apex missions.

You can watch the talk here on balenas Youtube channel.

[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)

Running resin balena on Raspberry Pi 3

Sun, 15 Oct 2017 14:07:43 +0000

Just two days ago, resin.io announced balena their new, moby based container engine. Basically, it is a Docker-dropin-replacement for IoT Devices: It is compatible with Docker and Docker Hub, gains a lot of stabilty with atomic pulls, more conservative flash memory use - as well as smaller updates due to true container delta pulls. Also, it comes bundled as single file, is smaller in size and as easy to use as Docker. So - a very good bundle.