Build your own binary clock with Elixir, Livebook, and Nerves. A binary clock is a puzzle for viewers that cryptically represents time using individual LED lights instead of digital numbers. Rather than building an LED circuit yourself, you’ll use a custom printed circuit board custom-built to power the clock. Building the clock in this way gives us a greater opportunity to explore layered design concepts.
Along the way, you’ll explore:
- Nerves Livebook to experiment with hardware.
- Read a data sheet to understand how data is transferred and represented on hardware devices
- Use Elixir’s binaries and for comprehensions to precisely build data
- Transfer data using a serial peripheral interface (SPI)
- Build layered software to power your clock.
When you’re done, you’ll get to take your hardware home for more experimentation on your own time.
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CHANNEL
in person
DURATION
8 hours
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Explore Elixir, Livebook and Nerves with a fun hardware project that you can take home
AUDIENCE
Intermediate users
PREREQUISITES
Attendees should bring a MacOS or Linux laptop with Elixir installed. USB cables and a MicroSD card reader are recommended. Details will be sent prior to the training.