This sounds like a great fit for the Nerves project. It focuses on Elixir, which runs the same as Erlang.
It builds firmware for Pis and other IoT on top of a thin Buildroot Linux layer, starts the Erlang VM and then that's practically your OS for building your device. Plenty of escape hatches for special needs.
I've done a bunch of streams recently with clustering Pi devices using Nerves, especially fun on local network with mDNS. They are on my blog: https://underjord.io/blog.html
Feel free to reach out if you have questions about Nerves. I'm an enthusiast of it, contributing mostly by using it for fun in public. Also write the newsletter so I'm fairly up to date :)
A lot of devs find Elixir more approachable/familiar than Erlang so it might help in your case there as well.
Sounds good. I'll take a look. I'm actually still waiting for the GRISP 2 board, if that ever gets done.
The problem is that I think that I need to spend time on Erlang/Exlir full time, otherwise I keep forgetting what I've learned. I guess I'm getting old :(
I work on GRiSP. It’s really close to being done. We’re wrapping up the software (e.g. updating drivers for the new platform) and are doing a lot of testing at the moment.
We are using the first boards from the final batch for this, and I really hope we can start shipping soon.
It builds firmware for Pis and other IoT on top of a thin Buildroot Linux layer, starts the Erlang VM and then that's practically your OS for building your device. Plenty of escape hatches for special needs.
I've done a bunch of streams recently with clustering Pi devices using Nerves, especially fun on local network with mDNS. They are on my blog: https://underjord.io/blog.html
Feel free to reach out if you have questions about Nerves. I'm an enthusiast of it, contributing mostly by using it for fun in public. Also write the newsletter so I'm fairly up to date :)
A lot of devs find Elixir more approachable/familiar than Erlang so it might help in your case there as well.