Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Join the balena team to learn how to measure energy consumption of your IoT devices. The goal of this session will be to measure the power consumption of the balenaFin (Raspberry Pi 3) in all the modes (normal, idle, sleep) and calculate battery and solar panels needed to get into the wild.

During the IoT Happy Hour, the balena Fin enigneers will speak about FPGA, and the future balena Fin 2.0 with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4).


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00:00 Welcome & introductions
04:06 Alex's 3D printer
05:02 What's on your desk?
15:17 David's balenaFin story
18:16 How to do power consumption measurement on balenaFin
21:20 balenaFin power consumption measurement
23:38 balenaFin Co-Processor and the balena block finabler
27:45 How David burnt his balenaFin
31:47 Alex showcase how to measure current on the Fin
41:10 David changed fuses on his Fin
42:14 Fin co-processor MCU
45:20 Charlie Tips 'n' Tricks: Finabler balena block
50:05 Q&A: mezzanine and zephir
51:44 balena Fin 2.0 with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
1:00:45 Wrap-Up