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Follow our journey as we develop and expand the GRiSP ecosystem

From production milestones and firmware updates to community events and technical deep dives, the blog shares what's happening behind the scenes. Expect regular updates, insights, and announcements that reflect our progress and the ideas shaping GRiSP.

🌊 Odyssey Chapter III: The Erlang ARM32 Jit is born!
Luca Succi — 07/10/2025
This week we finally achieved our first milestone in developing the ARM32 JIT. We executed our first Erlang function through JITted ARM32 machine code! This work is made possible thanks...[Continue reading]
The Erlang Pitch for Every Role
Peer Stritzinger — 01/10/2025
Erlang is not just another programming language, it's a battle-tested runtime and ecosystem designed for building systems that must not go down. Whether you're talking to engineers, executives, or sales...[Continue reading]
GRiSP: Advancing Embedded Systems for Over a Decade
Maria Jose Gavilan — 25/09/2025
More than 11 years ago, GRiSP began as an experiment to simplify real-time embedded development using Erlang. Frustrated with C's limitations, Peer Stritzinger discovered Erlang's distribution capabilities, transforming how embedded...[Continue reading]
Trellang Release
Peer Stritzinger — 11/09/2025
Trellang is an Erlang/OTP Trello client focused on standard libraries and clear docs. On 11 September 2025 we released trellang 1.0.0 to Hex. The follow-up 1.1.0 refines configuration guidance and...[Continue reading]
GRiSP Alloy Goes Open
Sebastien Merle — 02/09/2025
Ever had one of those days when you decide to upgrade everything new tools, shiny kernels, and the latest Ubuntu named after some groovy animal, because, hey, why not? Sounds...[Continue reading]
Eustaquia at AtlanticaConf2025
Icia Carro — 12/08/2025
What if your houseplants could tell you how they feel? Not in a vague, “I think it needs water” way, but with an actual facial expression. Meet Eustaquia, the cardboard-faced,...[Continue reading]
OPC UA Pub/Sub vs. Eclipse Sparkplug B: Choosing the Right MQTT Strategy
Peer Stritzinger — 18/07/2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Industrial IoT (IIoT), selecting the right communication protocol can significantly impact operational efficiency, security, and ease of integration. Two major contenders in the field,...[Continue reading]
🌊 Odyssey Chapter II: Cross-Building the BEAM JIT for ARM32
Luca Succi — 09/07/2025
Before writing any code, we need to identify how the existing build works and which tools are needed for the job. In other words, we define the optimal development workflow...[Continue reading]
🌊 The Odyssey of Porting the BEAM JIT to ARM32
Luca Succi — 23/06/2025
The BEAM JIT (BeamAsm) was introduced in 2020 as part of Erlang/OTP 24. The JIT allows the BEAM to emit machine code that implements BEAM instructions. The JIT executes at...[Continue reading]
Booting Erlang in 16 MB – a new milestone for GRiSP Nano
Maria Jose Gavilan — 11/06/2025
Last Monday (2 June) at Code BEAM Light Stockholm Peer opened his presentation with the question Can the BEAM fit into 16 MB? Two days later, the GRiSP Nano prototype...[Continue reading]
Adaptive Compute Mapping for Interplanetary Spacecraft
Peer Stritzinger — 04/04/2025
I recently had the opportunity to present at the Flight Software Workshop (FSWS) 2025 on the topic of "Adaptive Compute Mapping for Interplanetary Spacecraft." This talk addressed one of the...[Continue reading]
Livebook Meets GRiSP
Peer Stritzinger — 28/03/2025
Imagine simplifying IoT development so much that building sophisticated edge computing applications becomes as intuitive as editing a document in real-time collaboration with your peers. This is precisely what happens...[Continue reading]
Finalised end of line testing and installation setup and sent it to the hardware people
Peer Stritzinger — 13/01/2022
Happy New Year to all of you! We used the extra time while waiting for the hardware people be ready to end test and install the boards for some extra...[Continue reading]
Bootloader, firmware and certificate infrastructure finalised
Peer Stritzinger — 28/12/2021
As so often it took us longer than we planned, we wanted to be there before December but we ended up before the holiday vacations started. One of the reasons...[Continue reading]
Finally the first batch is produced
Peer Stritzinger — 4/10/2021
Again too late with my update. There were a lot little delays adding up when one thinks, lets just wait until this is resolved to give some good news and...[Continue reading]
Production is running now finally!
Peer Stritzinger — 5/4/2021
Happy Easter dear GRiSP Backers, again I have been spinning too many plates and got slow with the updates here. But today I have good news which I want to...[Continue reading]
Final tests proved useful, one step closer still
Peer Stritzinger — 8/12/2020
Short update to keep the time interval short: Lastly we were testing the GRiSP 2 board that got the final System on Module (SoM) hand soldered on (we needed to...[Continue reading]
Almost there to start production of the first batch
Peer Stritzinger — 19/11/2020
Again I need to apologize for not giving enough updates. We were quite busy this year and also careful that Covid doesn't messes up our business. Update here: we are...[Continue reading]
GRiSP 2 Kickstarter Announced
Peer Stritzinger — 1/2/2019
At Code BEAM in San Francisco, Peer Stritzinger and the team announced the GRiSP 2 project: an updated and improved design for the GRiSP board, with new features like an...[Continue reading]
Free Workshop in Stockholm for Code BEAM STO
Peer Stritzinger — 1/5/2018
The team will be in Stockholm for Code BEAM STO, and will be presenting a free full-day workshop on how to build with GRiSP.[Continue reading]
Starting Shipments!
Peer Stritzinger — 1/11/2017
We're shipping the pre-orders now! Of course, you can still order GRiSP-Base boards if you haven't already.[Continue reading]
GRiSP Shop Open for Business
Peer Stritzinger — 1/3/2017
The online store is now open for pre-orders of GRiSP boards. We're currently offering three options: - The GRiSP-base board ready to boot Erlang from the included SD-card - Just...[Continue reading]
GRiSP base prototype
Peer Stritzinger — 1/9/2016
Peer introduced the new GRiSP-Base prototype at EUC‌2016 in Stockholm in early September, to great success. Missed out? Watch the entire presentation video here.[Continue reading]