Serendipity Engineering - part 1

• inkyshot

  4 121 3.7 Python

  Get a daily random inspirational quote delivered direct to your desk with Inkyshot. Build multiple Inkyshots and share the inspiration with your friends, family and loved ones ❤️

  

Since balena is a remote-first company we put a lot of thought into making sure we try to connect with each other and have fun. In the past one of the ways we did this was to spend a week, once or twice a year, to physically collect together and spend time with each other. We call these sessions Summit, and there will usually be some swag there, such as devices and SD cards and sensors, t-shirts and hoodies and snacks. However, for obvious reasons, in the last couple of years we have been unable to fly the team around the world and spend time together in the same building, so our summits have had to move to a virtual event. The first time this happened, in 2020, a group of people at balena decided to build a project (the inkyshot ) and send one to everyone on the team as part of the swag box. The idea was that it was connecting to all be receiving the same message, initially about summit itself, but latterly to share quotes and insights.

• balenaPrint

  3 90 0.0 Shell

  Managed CUPS on Raspberry Pi devices, running balenaOS

The idea was to provide the balenistas with nothing more than an SD card and a postcard printed with a QR code. The code would lead them to an open fleet on balenaHub which they could then join by flashing the SD card and popping it into a device they already had. The instructions on the fleet card in hub told them to open http://cattlegrid.local on a browser, which opened a web server now running on their RaspberryPi device. Here's how it looked:

• InfluxDB

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