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5 pages tagged with "erlang"

Exploring Geospatial data in Elixir with Phoenix, D3, and PostGIS

January 28, 2016 - 1887 words - 10 mins
I noticed that Kaggle has started hosting some publicly available datasets. One of which is Ocean Ship Logbooks (1750-1850). I thought it would be interesting to visualize Captain Cook's travels on the HMS Endeavour using the Phoenix Web Framework, the D3 JavaScript library, and PostGIS. Source code… read more

Getting started with OpenGL in Elixir

January 03, 2016 - 701 words - 4 mins
I was curious about using OpenGL with Elixir and couldn't find much very information. Other than a kludge for working with constants defined in Erlang .hrl files it turned out to be not too difficult. The final result draws a triangle on the screen and looks like this: wxWidgets and Erlang Erlang/O… read more

Erlang clustering on the Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone with Elixir

December 11, 2015 - 707 words - 4 mins
I have been looking at Elixir/Erlang clustering with credit card sized computers and using the Phoenix web framework to communicate from the cluster to an Android tablet in realtime. I am pleasantly surprised at how easy it has been and how little code I had to write for this demo. In the above vid… read more

Elixir on the Raspberry Pi - Blinking an LED

December 10, 2015 - 1244 words - 7 mins
In this post we will see how to run the "Hello, World" of embedded devices, blinking an LED on a breadboard. We will be using the Elixir programming language and a Raspberry Pi. I have also written up similar instructions for the BeagleBone Black. The final result will look like this: Eli… read more

Elixir on the BeagleBone Black - Blinking an LED

December 09, 2015 - 1178 words - 6 mins
In this post we will see how to run the "Hello, World" of embedded devices, blinking an LED on a breadboard. We will be using the Elixir programming language and a BeagleBone Black. I have also written up similar instructions for the Raspberry Pi. The final result will look like this: Eli… read more