Functional farming with Nerves

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FarmBot rewrites its embedded firmware in under a year using Elixir + Nerves, replacing Arduino/RAMPS motor controllers with a Raspberry Pi running a full Nerves image. Firmware builds use Buildroot and mix firmware to produce ~65 MB images, deployed via SSH with mix firmware push or published to NervesHub for fleet updates. The device talks over AMQP/RabbitMQ, supports hot code reload for development, and there are about 500 deployed units — demo shows live push, reboot, and successful recovery.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:41Farmbot
3. 4:30What Is Nerves
4. 4:50Beagleboard
5. 7:14Elixir Circuits
6. 13:13Special Thanks

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