Development Environment

This is a description of the development environment used to interact with Minibot. You'll need a computer with wifi and...

• Windows 7 or greater
• Oracle JDK 8 (jdk-8u102-windows)
• ​Bonjour for Windows from Apple
• ​Eclipse Mars 2 or Eclipse Neon (J2EE edition is recommented)
• ​Pi4J
  • Read the first paragraph (re: Pi .vs. dev host installation)
  • Add PI4J dependencies to the project
    • OPTION 1: Add jar files from extracted lib folder to your Eclipse project
    • OPTION 2: Add Maven dependencies by editing the pom.xml
      • Add pi4j-core
      • Add pi4j-gpio-extensions
• ​Launchpi Plugin for Eclipse
  • Select the "LaunchPI" item from the "Uncategorized" entry
  • Default hostname for pi 'raspberrypi.local'. Replace raspberry pi if you change the hostname.
• ​PuTTY (SSH client)
  • Use either PuTTY or the Bitvise SSH Client. Default connection information is:

            Connection type: SSH
            hostname: raspberrypi.local   (or hostname.local if it was changed)
            username: pi
            password: raspberry
    

• ​WinSCP
  • A SFTP client used to transfer files between Windows and the Pi Zero. It uses the same connection information used for PuTTY.
  • Bitvise SSH Client also has a built-in SFTP client.