In this episode I talk with Justin Schneck. We talk embedded Erlang and Elixir with the Nerves Project, where Nerves fits in the landscape of embedded systems, prototyping vs deployment, and much, much more.Our Guest, Justin Schneckhttp://mobileoverlord.com/@mobileoverlord on Twittermobileoverlord on GithubNerves Project@NervesProject on TwitterConference AnnouncementsElixir.LDN will be taking place on August 17th. To help encourage inclusion and diversity 30 Free Scholarship places are available. Visit http://www.elixir.london/ to find out more and register.Compose Melbourne will be taking place August 28th and 29th. For more information and to register, visit http://www.composeconference.org/2017-melbourne/.The Strange Loop coming! It will be held in St. Louis, MO on September 28-30, 2017 at the Peabody Opera House. To submit your CfP, visit http://thestrangeloop.com/.PWLConf 2017 will be taking place September 28th in St. Louis, MO, before Strange Loop. Visit http://pwlconf.org/ for more information and to stay updated on latest announcements.Open FSharp will be taking place the 28th-29th of September in San Francisco, California. Visit openfsharp.org for more information and to register.elm-conf is returning to St. Louis on September 28, 2017 for a day of learning, speaking, and connecting with the Elm language community. For more information and to register visit http://www.elm-conf.us/.RacketCon is October 7th & 8th at the University of Washington, with keynote speakers Dan Friedman and Will Byrd. Visit http://con.racket-lang.org/ for more information and to register.LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/.CodeMesh is coming up November 8th and 9th in London. For more information, and to keep an eye open for registration, visit http://www.codemesh.io/.Moonconf will be taking place the 9th-11th of November. For more information visit http://moonconf.org/.If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.AnnouncementsSome of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you canfind out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About JustinElixirPhoenix FrameworkJustin’s desire to start his motorcycle from his phoneArduinoEctoMicrosoft TDS Driver in EctoThe Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in PhoenixSetting the foundation for the actor model from embedded systemsRaspberry PiRaspbianErlang AleNerves ProjectJustin’s introduction to NervesFrank HunlethGarth HitchensRosepoint“Why can’t I just run a Raspberry Pi”Nerves as suite of helper librariesElixir AleNerves as tool to build deployment imagesAbility to get minimal opt-in package imagesCreating a meal from a grocery kitchen versus at homeBuildrootWhat might deployment to production look likeErlInitBeagleBone BlackLinkIt Smart“Anything you can do in Buildroot you can essentially turn into a composable Nerves system.”“Microcomputers” vs microcontrollers in the Nerves worldHard real time constraints in Arduino vs soft real time requirementsNerves.UARTMQTTEMQLe ToteKey factors Elixir is good at for embedded systemsWendy Smoak building a cat feeder in NervesBootloaderSystemRegistryBooting to Erlang/Elixir as process-zeroDynamic configuration in NervesElixir on Nerves on Lego EV3 brickLe Tote kiosk on Raspberry Pi or x86Call to action to get started in Nerves“Blinking lights as the Hello World of hardware”Nerves on HexDocsNerves ExamplesPi Zero WNerves.Firmware.SSH“Don’t be afraid to do things that have already been done, just for the experience of knowing how to get those things accomplished”Where to share one’s projects and experiences#Nerves in Elixir Lang SlackElixir ForumErlang Factory San Francisco 2017Erlang User Conference 2017ElixirConfLeToteTeam on GithubThank You to the communityAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.