AstonJ
I’ve been thinking of ways to use Nerves, and was wondering - what is the smallest device or piece of hardware you can run Nerves on?
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NobbZ
Do you mean small in physical size or small in its computing power, memory, etc?
AstonJ
Physical size
NobbZ
From the officially supported I think it is the pi0.
Well or QEMU Arm, as it is emulated it has no physical size itself
ConnorRigby
the Linkit device is super small also. It had some caveats of use that i can’t quite remember tho.
And the NanoPi Neo was pretty small also, but I’ve never played with it.
AstonJ
Nice - thanks both!
The Raspberry Pi Zero looks tiny:
Specs:
Linkit too:
Specs:
And here’s the NanoPi compared to a Pi0:
Specs:
GregMefford
If you want something that’s going to work well and be well-supported, the RPi Zero is going to be your best bet. Some of the other options are neat and could be made to work, but you’ll be on your own or working with community systems as far as keeping the target configurations updated.
AstonJ
The RPi Zero looks plenty small imo, also specs are awesome for the size.
I wasn’t even aware the RPi Zero existed tbh - was only aware of the Raspberry Pi
tmecklem
This sounds like a challenge
I’d offer to ship a pi zero w for the person who manages to run Nerves on the smallest device, but I suspect @ConnorRigby already has enough 
I think the Linkit is the smallest one I’ve run it on from a pcb surface size, but it was a pain to set up.
Nicd
Note the difference between Zero and Zero W, only the latter has Wi-Fi. I have two Zero W’s for my Nerves project and they work very well.
AstonJ
Not sure if it’d work, but…
Thanks @Nicd - I’m glad I didn’t order the one without the W now