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NervesConf US has happened. I wasn't there so I can't give the full story. If you were, please write something for this newsletter and send it to me or even better, write for your own blog and send me the link. Would love to have a report from someone at the event. I'm hounding Alex but he does deserve some rest after putting it on. A big hand to him and his team at Redwire Labs for picking up the torch and making sure NervesConf US happens again. If you need help making an IoT product, give them a call.
ElixirConf EU has happened, I wrote some about it during the event. It was a great time all around. Gus Workman of Protolux Electronics showed off his work on the Trellis a piece of Nerves-focused hardware in a Raspberry Pi form factor but with a more IoT-product focused sensibility. You can follow the process here on Bluesky. He also wore this thing which is an awesome eInk polaroid running Nerves.
Before ElixirConf EU we also pulled together the Igniting Nerves Workshop. Pictures below.
We picked up a bunch of Nerves libraries , we grabbed the Igniter library by Zach Daniel. And we produced a whole bag of PRs for better installation and DX for Nerves.
There is some work to do in the main Nerves generator as well as in how we use Nerves systems to full integrate Igniter. But we made good progress and the end result should ideally be that someone can add Nerves to a Phoenix app by just going `mix igniter.install nerves`. That's it.
It was a fun time and as always with these pre-conference workshops you get to connect with some folks that you can hang with during the conference. Strongly recommend attending one of these if you can.
-Lars
Get ready for the first NervesConf EU .
Our speakers are being announced right now. Get your tickets :)
Nerves Meetup
28th of May (US), meetup details
Go check out the meetup, generally arranged by Alex and Abelino at Redwire Labs. They pull a good crowd consistently.
Error reporting in production?
I posted a question about what people use for reporting errors from devices in production. I'd love to hear from you all as this might influence how we deal with error reporting for devices connected to NervesHub.
Got questions?
Trouble-shooting is best done on the Nerves Forum over at Elixir's Forum. But if you have big-picture questions you would like to ask around Nerves, feel free to send them in and we might just have ourselves a column here.
Nerves and Elixir shirts can be bought at
oswag.org
. Stickers with every purchase.
-Lars
Participating in the community
The Nerves community is found wherever Elixirists gather. Try any of the following:
Questions are best asked on the Elixir Forum .
Social conversation and banter:
- Elixir Slack , #nerves channel
- Elixir Discord , #nerves channel
How you can help Nerves
Contribute in the way that works for you:
- 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.
- 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.
Finally, if you have questions about the newsletter or want to suggest something you can simply respond to this email.
- Lars
