Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Welcome back to the show. In this episode we answer a few prototyping questions, talk serendipitous engineering, how to diagnose open fleet devices, get a closer look at the Fin balenaBlock, and answer questions about wi-fi connect. We also give gobs and gobs of affection to our internal site-generator sweetheart, Landr. Ah, and we coordinated matching t-shirts.
00:00 Introductions
04:30 Projects of all sizes welcome, serendipitous engineering
09:30 Do I prototype with cheap parts or expensive ones? Which removes the most friction?
14:50 Q&A: How do I make sure my device joined an Open Fleet?
18:42 Q&A: How do balenaHub users know what's inside of a project before joining an Open Fleet?
23:12 Tools spotlight: Landr!
25:00 Q&A: Explain like I'm five-- what is the Fin block?
33:55 Q&A: How do I share port 80 for multiple uses (e.g. using wi-fi connect and accessing a dashboard)
39:30 Q&A: With wi-fi connect block, how can we inform other blocks on the name of actual used SSID?
47:25 Fin block demo
Product builders one and all are welcome. Check out other projects on our Show and Tell category forums.balena.io/c/show-and-tell/92
See you on the next one.
Welcome back to the show. In this episode we answer a few prototyping questions, talk serendipitous engineering, how to diagnose open fleet devices, get a closer look at the Fin balenaBlock, and answer questions about wi-fi connect. We also give gobs and gobs of affection to our internal site-generator sweetheart, Landr. Ah, and we coordinated matching t-shirts.
00:00 Introductions
04:30 Projects of all sizes welcome, serendipitous engineering
09:30 Do I prototype with cheap parts or expensive ones? Which removes the most friction?
14:50 Q&A: How do I make sure my device joined an Open Fleet?
18:42 Q&A: How do balenaHub users know what's inside of a project before joining an Open Fleet?
23:12 Tools spotlight: Landr!
25:00 Q&A: Explain like I'm five-- what is the Fin block?
33:55 Q&A: How do I share port 80 for multiple uses (e.g. using wi-fi connect and accessing a dashboard)
39:30 Q&A: With wi-fi connect block, how can we inform other blocks on the name of actual used SSID?
47:25 Fin block demo
Product builders one and all are welcome. Check out other projects on our Show and Tell category forums.balena.io/c/show-and-tell/92
See you on the next one.
