I've always been afraid of hardware, all thumbs, and away from the safe world of programming and mathematics. When I first heard Elixir, my favourite language, worked on embedded systems, I was confused, isn't that for the systems language folks? Emboldened by my recent Elixir Nx experience where I saw how Elixir can work with GPUs, I thought: "This is my time to finally get dirty!" This talk is about what my adventure into Nerves was like, from someone who has Zero experience with hardware and afraid of touching wires. I got myself a RPI Zero 2W and the adventure began.