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Important for BeagleBone Black users
There is a critically important change in this PR. The problem happened over in Linux land. The details are in the PR and linked on from there. It affects eMMC life times and also wired ethernet doesn't work.
Read up on and take actions accordingly.
Over 100 devices & 1 workshop
We have handily beaten what I dared hope for. The Nerves Community Fleet talk for Code BEAM Berlin is certainly afloat!
You can still join the Nerves Community Fleet.
BitCrowd are kindly hosting us for our workshop. Come hack on devices, 13th of October, day before the Code BEAM conference. As we wrap up the event transforms into the Elixir Berlin Meetup as well :)
Frank Hunleth, Jon Carstens, lostkobrakai and Cocoa Xu are all slated to be there helping everyone that wants to learn, experiment and hack on some Nerves.
-Lars
Project updates
Again, see the information at the very top of this newsletter. It is much more the important bit.
This release bumps GCC from 13.2 to 14.2.
- Tool versions
- GCC 14.2 (https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/changes.html)
- glibc 2.40
- musl 1.2.5
- Changes
- Show if GPIO number remapping is happening for AM335x platforms via backend_info/0.
- Drop support for Elixir 1.11 and 1.12.
New core team member
Umm.. me. Hi. I'm in the core team now. Let me know if I can help in some way. I'm primarily focused on comms and marketing but I'll poke code as often as I can :)
Community updates
All about the kiosks
Seeed Studio ReTerminal DM has been called out, by me, as a nice and cool starting point for a kiosk device. They also have an older ReTerminal that is smaller, should be lighter as it is plastic and still seems quite nice. José Rodriguez is hacking away at a system for that and made it work with my kiosk application.
Formrausch's ReTerminal DM kiosk system:
https://github.com/formrausch/frio_rpi4
José's system for the original 7" plastic ReTerminal:
https://github.com/joserp93/reterminal_rpi4
The official Nerves Web Kiosk org's example:
https://github.com/nerves-web-kiosk/kiosk_example
My actively hacked on example kiosk app:
https://github.com/lawik/nerves_cloud_kiosk
Many Shorts don't make a Long
To build awareness and get a little bit spicy I made some YouTube Shorts on Nerves, Erlang and more. Watch, share, enjoy or ignore. All valid options.
Nerves Meetup!
The Nerves Meetup should release a new video with Ben Murphy's talk on gen_statem quite soon if history is anything to go by. The last meetup listed 45 attendees which is a decent bunch. The next event is coming up.
Participating in the community
The Nerves community is found wherever Elixirists gather. Try any of the following:
- Elixir Slack, #nerves channel
- Elixir Discord
- Mastodon/Fediverse at genserver.social
- Elixir Forum Chat
Supporting the Nerves project
We want to encourage everyone to contribute in whatever way works for them. Here are some ways we currently recommend:
- Write or port a new hardware library and include it in the Elixir Circuits collection.
- Get in touch about taking over maintenance duties for some libraries, we might be able to provide you hardware.
- Apply for an EEF stipend on something Nerves-related and build it. We can help if you have questions about this.
- Send corrections or improvements for documentation wherever it fails to help you.
- Write about Nerves, give talks about Nerves. Make videos about Nerves. It is all good.
Finally, if you have questions about the newsletter or want to suggest something you can simply respond to this email it will go directly to me, Lars, who edits this thing. Let me know what you think.
- Lars, Underjord.io
