Confronting Hardware Fears with Elixir and Nerves

In this talk, Ellyse, who has a strong background in distributed systems, recounts her experience of stepping into the world of hardware with Nerves, a tool for Elixir that facilitates embedded system development. She reflects on her initial apprehension and how her recent experiences with Elixir Nx, which showed the potential of Elixir with GPUs, motivated her to dive into hardware. Ellyse describes her adventure starting from no prior hardware experience and her journey with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. Her story emphasizes the learning and discoveries made along the way, challenging the boundaries of her comfort zone in programming.