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Build a Binary Clock with Elixir and Nerves
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Build a Binary Clock with Elixir and Nerves

by Frank Hunleth, Bruce Tate
August 2022
Intermediate to advanced
108 pages
2h 23m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 4Blink an LED with Software Layers

In the first chapter, we worked out how to burn firmware. Then we used the Circuits.GPIO library to manipulate a circuit with an LED. In this chapter, we’ll build our own firmware to blink an LED with a service layer. We’ve chosen a simple project in the spirit of achieving small, quick wins. We’ll use this tiny project with blinking LEDs to show you how to build a system in layers.

At some point in this chapter, you’re probably going to be shaking your head, wondering why you would ever use so many layers to blink one silly LED. When that happens, remind yourself that the goal is to use a known simple problem, a blinking LED, to explore a much more complex question: how to build complex hardware projects ...

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