Your Turn
In this chapter, you found out why Elixir and Nerves provide an excellent platform for creating network-enabled IoT devices. By leveraging the provided Nerves networking tools, you were able to connect to your device, remotely push firmware updates, and read live sensor data. All of this was possible thanks to the solid foundation provided to us by Elixir and Nerves. This allowed us to focus on the core of our problem as opposed to worrying about the lower-level details.
What You Built
You created the first poncho project in the application using the Nerves mix nerves.new command. With your newly created project, you were able to burn your firmware to the device and SSH into it using the default wired connection over a USB cable. With ...
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