Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
On this episode, the balena IoT Happy Hour team will talk with the Pimoroni team about their Pimoroni hardware catalog. Expect a long What's on your desk section, learning about electronics, applications built with Pimoroni hardware using balena and more.
00:00 Welcome and introductions
02:28 balena is hiring
03:30 What is pimoroni?
07:48 What's on your desk?
10:45 Keyboard Pi 2040
14:15 Certification of the Pimoroni hardware
17:29 Inky 7-color
21:35 Keep the film on
24:17 Unboxing Pimoroni Grow and Automation hats
26:30 Paul' camera setup
28:12 Automation hat
29:46 Inkyshot project and inky e-paper products
33:05 Breakout garden
34:50 3d printer organizers
36:28 Game pad with Pi 2040
39:22 Pimoroni manufacturing and shipping from?
45:11 Kickstarter Gamepad 32 bits
47:00 Pimoroni careers
47:36 Artwork at Pimoroni
58:28 Passive cooling for the Raspberry Pi
59:45 Top sales on Pimoroni
1:03:15 Wrap-up and next episode announced
On this episode, the balena IoT Happy Hour team will talk with the Pimoroni team about their Pimoroni hardware catalog. Expect a long What's on your desk section, learning about electronics, applications built with Pimoroni hardware using balena and more.
00:00 Welcome and introductions
02:28 balena is hiring
03:30 What is pimoroni?
07:48 What's on your desk?
10:45 Keyboard Pi 2040
14:15 Certification of the Pimoroni hardware
17:29 Inky 7-color
21:35 Keep the film on
24:17 Unboxing Pimoroni Grow and Automation hats
26:30 Paul' camera setup
28:12 Automation hat
29:46 Inkyshot project and inky e-paper products
33:05 Breakout garden
34:50 3d printer organizers
36:28 Game pad with Pi 2040
39:22 Pimoroni manufacturing and shipping from?
45:11 Kickstarter Gamepad 32 bits
47:00 Pimoroni careers
47:36 Artwork at Pimoroni
58:28 Passive cooling for the Raspberry Pi
59:45 Top sales on Pimoroni
1:03:15 Wrap-up and next episode announced

![IoT Happy Hour #11: balenaFin: Survival in a Harsh Environment
On this weeks episode of balena.io #IoT Happy Hour were doing a live-streamed build and installation of a balenaFin with a senseHAT and balenaSense running on it. The balenaFin will be installed live on Davids roof in Phoenix, Arizona.
The goal of the experiment is to show you how to deploy an IoT device from scratch with balenaCloud and leave it in a real harsh environment.
balenaSense project [https://www.balena.io/blog/monitor-air-quality-around-your-home-with-home-assistant-and-balena/] enables your device (Raspberry Pi, balenaFin and similar) with a senseHAT [https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/] read temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and air quality, and push this data to a Grafana dashboard that you can access from anywhere with balenaCloud. Internally it uses InfluxDB, Telefrag and MQTT.
balenaSense on Github: https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sense IoT Happy Hour #11: balenaFin: Survival in a Harsh Environment](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zqB-hAdSp9U/mqdefault.jpg)