Development Environment

This is a description of the development environment used by one of the mentors (Mr. Alan Borgwardt) for initial PiBot development / prototyping in Fall 2016.

• Windows 10
• Eclipse Mars 2 (eclipse-java-mars-2 or neon)
• JDK 8 (jdk-8u102-windows)
• ​Bonjour for Windows from Apple
• Pi4J (pi4j-1.1.zip)
  • ​http://pi4j.com/install.html
  • Read the first paragraph (re: Pi .vs. dev host installation)
  • Follow the 'download' link in the first paragraph
  • Download pi4j-1.1.zip
  • Extract zip
  • Add jar files from extracted lib folder to Eclipse project

NOTE: This is for development workstation. Pi Zero's Raspian Jessie already has PI4J included, which, I think, is what gets used when running on Pi Zero. (Although, launching on Pi Zero from Windows/Eclipse? with Pi Plugin *may* use the jars from the Eclipse project???)

• ​Launchpi Plugin for Eclipse
  • Select the "LaunchPI" item from the "Uncategorized" entry

NOTE: Default hostname for pi 'raspberrypi.local'. Replace raspberry pi if you change the hostname.

• PuTTY

I use PuTTY to SSH into the Pi Zero from Windows:

        Connection type: SSH
        hostname: raspberrypi.local
        username: pi
        password: raspberry

• WinSCP

I use WinSCP transfer files between Windows and the Pi Zero.

Same connection information used for PuTTY