Awesome balena

A curated list of helpful balena resources.

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Boilerplate projects for understanding and getting started with different balena features.

Idling, likely the most minimal balena project, for the most barebones & quickest way to get started.
Simple Server Python, a simple Hello World server with Python Flask.
Simple Server Node.js, a simple express server with balena.
Rust Hello World, example of how to deploy Rust code on a balena supported device.
C++ Hello World, example of how to deploy C++ code on a balena supported device.
Golang Hello World, starting project to deploy a Golang project on balena supported devices.
Timezone, example to set the timezone on a balena device.
Balena WiFi Connect, an app skeleton/addon to allow WiFi configuration to be set via a captive portal, besides your normal application.
Balena Sense-hat Python Starter, a starter project with Python3 and Sense-HAT library ready to go.
Balena Sense-hat Node.js Starter, a starter project with Node.js and Sense-HAT library ready to go.

Collection of Software Development Kits to interact with the balena platform programically:

Full projects built on top of balena:

Boombeastic, a Raspberry Pi based smart connected speaker based on Mopidy.
Balena Cam, share your balena device's camera feed with multiple peers.
resin-electronjs, a electronJS-based balena application template which can be used for easy digital signage or dashboard setup.
balena-wpe, running a fullscreen browser, WPEWebkit by the Web Platform for Embedded project, with hardware accelerated CSS, WebGL, and HTML5 video on the RaspberryPi 3.
Build a Raspberry Pi-based network camera using WebRTC.

Blogposts that are great tutorial for balena or describe interesting projects to learn from:

Balena and Eduroam, connecting to Eduroam.
Balena Pi-Hole, raspberryPi 3 balenaCloud stack with Pi-hole, PADD, & Unbound.
Balena Sense, example of using the Pi, Sense-HAT, InfluxDB and Grafana.
Balena Temperatures, record temperatures with TEMPer USB devices.
Dog Temp Texter, this system is designed to connect to a wireless network and send texts to a user about a temperature sensor. The user can setup alerts that will send additional messenges.
ETA Nixie Tube Clocks, easy IoT Fleet Deployment of ETA Nixie Tube Clocks.
LEGO Macintosh Classic with e‑paper display.
Sonar, scan the surrounding for BLE devices and produce user friendly reports for said data.
Take Balena for a test-drive.
Build an air quality monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker on a Raspberry Pi

balena base images, the source code of the balena systemd-enabled Docker base images.
balena-supervisor, balena's agent on devices.
meta-balena, a Yocto layer used to build balena operating system images.

balenaEtcher, burn images to SD cards & USB drives, safe & easy.
balenaOS, a host OS tailored for containers, designed for reliability, proven in production.
balenaEngine, an engine purpose-built for embedded and IoT use cases, based on Moby Project technology from Docker.
balenaFin, the balenaFin is a professional carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module.
openBalena, open source software to manage connected IoT devices.
Awesome balenaFin, balenaFin specific list of awesomeness.

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