EMx 008: Nerves! with Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck

Panel:

Eric Berry
Mark Erikson
Josh Adams

Special Guests: Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck

In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck about Nerves! Frank is a software developer who, in his day job, focuses on C and C++ and now works for Smartrent using Nerves. Justin is currently working for Le Tote where he applies Nerves to the production there. They talk about what Nerves is, the two worlds you work within Nerves, the disadvantages to using Nerves, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Frank and Justin intro
Looking into ideas on how to use Nerves in their own homes
What is Nerves?
Collection of tools and frameworks that help you build embedded devices
Bridge from Elixir world to the physical world
Access to the rest of the Elixir ecosystem
FarmBot
Nerves in farming
Testament to the Nerves documentation
Understanding where Erlang came from
Can use a small size firmware
Raspberry pi
Two worlds to work in within Nerves
Goal is to keep you in the Elixir world
Where does Elixir fit in within the world of device programming?
Are people starting to be drawn to Nerves?
Nerves fits in with devices that are smarter
Targeting the embedded Linux space
Negatives to Nerves
Python
And much, much more!

Links:

Smartrent
Nerves
Le Tote
Elixir
FarmBot
Nerves documentation
Erlang
Raspberry pi
Linux
Elixir Slack
Frank’s GitHub
@fhunleth
Justin’s GitHub
@mobileoverlord

Sponsors:

Digital Ocean

Picks:

Eric

Walking
OverDrive app for ios

Mark

Dell XPS 13 Laptop

Josh

Should we adopt Dave’s way of building applications as a series of components? – Elixir Forum thread

Frank

Elixir Native UI
Cees De Groot

Justin

Gardening
Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn