Less american, more mango and RISC-V
July 22, 2022 • Issue 38
No images? Click here Nerves 1.8 is out with an announcement and everything. Read that for the high-level overview and context. Constraints make for creative exploration. A new device gets early support in Nerves. The MangoPi MQ Pro. It is designed as a Pi Zero competitor or alternative but like most non-Raspberry Pi it is not software-compatible and as such it will not be quite as sweet from the start. See how things go by following along. Now you can at least use it :) There's a change I appreciate that changes the default WiFi regulatory domain to be global/international rather than default to US. Official project updates
This release requires Elixir 1.11.2 or later. It has no new features. This is the first batch of updates to improve our ability to maintain Nerves tooling long term now that we can remove old features and workarounds.
Community updatesScenic Meetup - Video feat. Boy Multerer Jason Axelson and Alex Mclain made a Scenic meetup happen. Scenic is the very embedded-friendly OpenGL-based UI-framework that we have in the Elixir world. It pairs quite nicely with Nerves for certain use-cases. You can see the video here on YouTube. Supporting the Nerves projectWe want to encourage everyone to contribute in whatever way works for them. Here are some ways we currently recommend:
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