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???)

• [​https://tsvetan-stoyanov.github.io/launchpi/ Launchpi Plugin for Eclipse
  • Open Eclipse
  • Select menu item: "Help|Install New Software..."
  • In the "Work with:" text box, enter the following URL:
    • ​https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tsvetan-stoyanov/launchpi/master/org.launchpi.us/target/site/site.xml
  • Select the "LaunchPI" item from the "Uncategorized" entry
  • Proceed through the wizard to add/install this plugin

NOTE: For more about this plugin, visit the URL:

​http://tsvetan-stoyanov.github.io/launchpi/

NOTE: When the Pi Zero is connected to the USB port on my Windows system, it is automatically identified as hostname 'raspberrypi.local'.

• 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