Week Eight: New Digs
The Nerves community moves to their own Discord server, and Beam Bots follows.
A quieter week on the code front, but we have news.
We've Moved
The Nerves community has launched their own Discord server, separate from the Elixir Discord. It's a good move - the embedded Elixir world has grown enough to warrant its own space, and the Nerves folks have always been wonderfully welcoming.
Beam Bots is moving with them. If you've been following along on the Elixir Discord, you'll find us at the new address:
Same channel name (#beam-bots), same people, new server. Come say hello.
Why Follow Nerves?
If you're wondering why a robotics project would follow an embedded systems community: Beam Bots doesn't have to run on Nerves, but it likes to. The framework works anywhere Elixir runs, but it's designed with embedded hardware in mind - Raspberry Pis, BeagleBones, and whatever boards the future brings. Nerves makes deploying to those targets painless.
The Nerves team has been incredibly supportive since the project started. Frank Hunleth donated the WidowX-200 that kicked off real hardware testing. Gus Workman from Protolux is collaborating on the balance bot. The overlap between "people interested in Elixir on embedded hardware" and "people interested in Elixir controlling robots" is basically a circle.
So when the Nerves community moves, we move with them.
Links
- bb on Hex (v0.15.0)
- Proposals repo on GitHub
- Discord