Building a Raspberry Pi weather station with Elixir/Nerves – Part 4
Part 3 demonstrated how to communicate with the wind speed sensor. The next step is to create modules for reading from both sensors, and automatically repeating this task at a set …
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Building a Raspberry Pi weather station with Elixir/Nerves – Part 3
Part 2 ended without us being able to read the wind speed, let’s fix that! Communicating via SPI bus To communicate with the wind speed sensor, a binary payload must be sent to the …
Building a Raspberry Pi weather station with Elixir/Nerves – Part 2
Life happens but I am back with a part 2 update for the Raspberry Pi weather station powered by Elixir/Nerves! An analog mistake After the parts arrived, I began to pour over the …
Deploying git tags on Nanobox
I’ve been using Nanobox for months now on my side projects, it is an amazing tool for dev(s)/teams that are solo or want to avoid devops work. One item that I miss from my devops …
Building a Raspberry Pi weather station with Elixir/Nerves – Part 1
My house is at the top of a hill, and no weather stations are close enough to accurately determine the wind speeds. Being the nerd that I am, knowing the current and historical …
Learning Elixir – August 2017 Update
Learning a new programming language is an investment in time and money (if you purchase learning material). Sometimes a job forces you to learn a new language in order to be …
Install Rescuetime on Solus Linux
If you use a linux distribution which cannot install .deb or .rpm packages, Rescuetime appears to be unusable. Solus Linux cannot install either of those packages, and the …