ElixirConf 2018 crunch time
Crunch time is here, ElixirConf is in 36 days! I started my presentation which is going to require a lot more time than previously imagined. My goal is to have the audience laugh a …
Hey, I’m Frank! Developer & Tinkerer.
I'm a developer who loves Elixir and hacks on Nerves IOT devices in my spare time. I enjoy sharing what I have learned and learning from others. Welcome to my little home on the internet!
Building a Raspberry Pi weather station with Elixir/Nerves – Part 5
Speaking at ElixirConf 2018 If you want to learn how to build a weather station, laugh, cry when its over; then come to ElixirConf 2018! You can talk to me in person and I’ll make …
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 …
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 …