Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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On this episode, the balena IoT Happy Hour team will talk with the balena Hardware Hackers about some new balenaBlocks.

balenaBlocks are building blocks to reduce the friction of coding your next edge or IoT app (for instance, a balenaHub submission). Expect building a new applications with some new balena blocks.

github.com/balenablocks


00:00 Welcome and introductions
01:36 Balena is hiring
03:20 New balenaBlocks introduction
05:22 What's on your desk?
09:18 Alan's new camera
12:26 balena Floppy disk
20:14 Sensor block
30:20 Hardware for the Sensor block
35:17 More sensors compatible with the Sensor block
37:10 Data visualization and Data transformation
41:58 Introducing a new sensor on the hardware
46:45 Pulse block
49:23 Hardware for Pulse block
53:35 Data Visualization and Data transformation
59:45 Pulse block counting
1:04:45 Good bye