In this groundbreaking workshop we will have REDACTED smartphones for every participant. You will get an Android phone running Nerves and the session is focused on a shared effort to hack new functionality into the firmware project. And learn some stuff along the way. Run by Marc Lainez, who presented on the Nerves Car at Goatmire last year, you'll be in good hands as you explore what we can do with this device. Most IoT devices are lower end hardware with limited peripherals and capabilities. Smartphones are the exact opposite. They contain every capability under the sun and a battery at that. This workshop will be something quite special and in the end you'll have custom device that lets you develop on it in Elixir that we all duly saved from the landfill. (note: don't bring old phones to convert, developing a new Nerves system for a smartphone takes more time) Requirements: Install an Elixir working environment and the Nerves tooling. Instructions coming.
Marc is an experienced software developer and product manager. He started Spin42 with Loïc Vigneron and Thibault Poncelet in 2013 after several years freelancing. Together, they have built Ibanity in 2016, a financial institution aggregator written in Elixir that was sold in 2017. They have been working on Ibanity and other related products until the end of 2023 and are now tinkering and searching for new challenges. Marc has been an invited teacher at the university of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium for 10 years where he introduces students in their third bachelor year to Agile software development practices.