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Panel

• Mark Ericksen

• Michael Ries

• Josh Adams

• Eric Oestrich

Joined by Special Guest: Frank Hunleth

Summary

Frank Hunleth, co-author of Nerves, shares where Nerves came from and how it got started. The panel discusses the Nerves 1.5 release and the improvements in it. Frank introduces Nerves Hub and Michael Ries gives a little marketing spin to it, explaining what you can do with Nerves Hub and why you would want to use it. The panel discusses the funding model for Nerves. Frank introduces Elixir Circuit, which helps you find libraries for your devices. He introduces Mountrap, a library that helps to switch between ports and NIFs. Frank introduces Grisp, what it is and how it compares to Nerves. Frank introduces Vintage Net and how it will help your devices stay online. Michael shares his experience with Nerves and gives some tips to make getting started with Nerves easy. The panel encourages programmers to get into embedded systems and explains how it will change the way they view coding. 

Links

• EMx 008: Nerves! with Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck

• Actor Model 

• Lisp Flavoured Erlang  

• Nerves 1.5.0 released! 

• https://www.nerves-hub.org/ 

• https://opencollective.com/nerves-project 

• ElixirConf 2018 - Keynote - Justin Schneck 

• https://github.com/nerves-hub 

• https://github.com/nerves-hub/nerves_key 

• NervesKey 

• Lonestar ElixirConf 2019 - Building a Smart Sprinkler Controller with Nerves - Todd Resudek 

• https://elixir-circuits.github.io/ 

• https://github.com/elixir-circuits/circuits_quickstart 

• https://github.com/fhunleth/muontrap 

• 15 Ports and Port Drivers 

• GRiSP 2: DIVING DEEPER INTO EMBEDDED SYSTEMS 

• GRiSP 2 

• https://www.gigcityelixir.com/ 

• https://hex.pm/packages/blinkchain 

• https://github.com/fhunleth/vintage_net 

• https://twitter.com/smartlogic/status/1161982882036015104 

• https://twitter.com/fhunleth?lang=en

• https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix

• https://twitter.com/elixir_mix

Picks

Mark Ericksen:

• Boundaries 

Michael Ries:

• ElixirConf 2015 - Embedded Elixir in Action by Garth Hitchens 

• ElixirConf 2017 - Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves - Tim Mecklem 

• Jon Carstens: Dadgineering with Elixir+Nerves 

• 2 Watt Solar Charger Kit 

Josh Adams:

• 2017 National Electrical Code 

Eric Oestrich:

• Parsely 

• The Big Elixir 

Frank Hunleth:

• Power Control 

• https://hex.pm/packages/power_control

• Programming Boot Sector Games