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Making my dumb A/C smart with Elixir and Nerves


As the scorching Japanese summer creeps ever closer with each passing day, I kept thinking about my yesteryear idea of remotely controlling my bedroom A/C over the Internet. With a simple click of a button ten minutes before bedtime, I could kick-start the A/C unit, ensuring my bedroom

As the scorching Japanese summer creeps ever closer with each passing day, I kept thinking about my yesteryear idea of remotely controlling my bedroom A/C over the Internet. With a simple click of a button ten minutes before bedtime, I could kick-start the A/C unit, ensuring my bedroom is a cool and comfortable oasis by the time I brush my teeth and make my way upstairs. Nerves bundles your application, along with a slimmed-down Linux kernel and a few essential utilities, into firmware that you can burn onto a microSD card, allowing your embedded computer to boot directly into BEAM, the Erlang Virtual Machine.

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