What You Built
For your first Nerves project, you used the Circuits QuickStart for a few quick wins. First, you shopped for a few parts for the initial project. Then you burned existing firmware with the Nerves tooling. You connected a Raspberry Pi Zero to your computer through a USB port to establish a remote connection and see what was happening on the board of your target. The Toolshed tools let you rapidly tell what was going on.
That’s a lot of work without any custom programming. Still, that step was significant.
Why It Matters
Working with hardware is about establishing quick wins from small steps that are each easy to verify and debug. Uploading firmware establishes the first critical step of a development cycle, building and loading your ...
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