Marc Lainez
Owner & Co-founder
Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
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Marc is an experienced software developer and product manager. He started Spin42 with Loïc Vigneron and Thibault Poncelet in 2013 after several years freelancing. Together, they have built Ibanity in 2016, a financial institution aggregator written in Elixir that was sold in 2017. They have been working on Ibanity and other related products until the end of 2023 and are now tinkering and searching for new challenges. Marc has been an invited teacher at the university of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium for 10 years where he introduces students in their third bachelor year to Agile software development practices.
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A Nerves Car
In december 2023, Loïc, Thibault and Marc embarked on a journey to convert a 2007 VW Polo into an EV.
At Elixirconf 2024, they presented their early prototype showing the car's wheels spinning and the future plans they had for it.
This time, they are back to show us a fully driveable EV running on Elixir, and more...
They have now managed to make the car remote controlled, still using Nerves and Elixir running on Raspberry Pis and using a few Arduinos.
In this presentation, they will talk about the major changes they had to do over the past year to go from a low fidelity prototype to their current version,
both from a hardware and software perspective. They will also share some insights about what their platform,
Open Vehicle Control System, has become today, pushing Elixir to unexpected places.
Retrofitting a car and running it with Elixir
Extending a cars' lifespan is not an easy feat. We need to ask ourselves what makes people enjoy a car today and what technology it should include. This talk shares the current state of our journey in retrofitting a car and building a new and open vehicle control system (OVCS), redesigning the engine controller and infotainment systems with off the shelve components running with Elixir.
We will explain how we reverse-engineered the proprietary CAN bus messages from the car, how we created our own raspberry pi CAN bus hats and how we used nerves to create firmware for the new electric engine controller and infotainment systems.
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