November 07, 2024

Creating a Terrestrial Telescope using Nerves & LiveView with Lucas Sifoni

49 minutes

Today on Elixir Wizards, indie developer Lucas Sifoni shares his experience prototyping a remote-controlled terrestrial telescope using Elixir, Nerves, Rust, and various hardware components.

Lucas explains the basic components of a telescope, the challenges he faced during the development process, and the benefits of using Elixir and Nerves for hardware projects. Lucas emphasizes the importance of simulating hardware components and testing assumptions before working with physical devices, as well as the value of literate programming and executable blog posts for documenting and sharing the process.

Lucas encourages listeners to explore Nerves and build their own hardware projects. He also gives a shout-out to the Nerves core team for their incredible work.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Challenges in optimizing wiring and PCB design for the prototype

Benefits of Elixir and Nerves for hardware projects

Communicating with Arduinos using serial connections and pattern matching

Leveraging binary pattern matching and construction in Elixir for hardware

Balancing educational value and real-world usability

Learning CID software and parametric design for 3D printing components

Growing interest in Nerves and hardware projects within the Elixir community

Simulating hardware components and testing assumptions before physical implementation

Literate programming and executable blog posts for documenting hardware projects

Using Elixir's interoperability with Rust for performance-critical tasks

Elixir's low fragmentation and high-quality libraries for various domains

Potential for using Livebook in hardware projects, with some limitations

Encouraging listeners to explore Nerves and build their own hardware projects

Links mentioned

https://lucassifoni.info/

https://www.rust-lang.org/

https://go.dev/

https://lisp-lang.org/

https://ubuntu.com/

https://hexdocs.pm/iex/IEx.html

https://nerves-project.org/

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/prototyping-elixir-telescope-code-beam/

https://github.com/Lucassifoni/oiseaux

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.html

https://www.raspberrypi.com/

https://mangopi.org/

https://store.arduino.cc/products/arduino-nano

https://elixir-circuits.github.io/

https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/runtime_tools/scheduler.html

Binary pattern matching in Elixir with PNG parsing example https://zohaib.me/binary-pattern-matching-in-elixir/

Lucas’ Code Beam Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7bleFzA11c

https://github.com/membraneframework-labs

https://github.com/talklittle/ffmpex

https://studio.blender.org/training/3d-printing/

https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_design

https://www.exem.fr/

https://www.kikk.be/exhibitions/collectif-lab212-nicolas-guichard-beatrice-lartigue/

https://livebook.dev/

https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee

https://github.com/rusterlium/rustlerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7bleFzA11c

Special Guest: Lucas Sifoni.

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