Java on Raspberry Pi

Hello, DZone Community!

This is my first post here: sorry for ignoring this community until now! :-)

Let me quickly introduce myself: My name is Frank Delporte. I live in Belgium, and I started programming when I was 11 years old with a Commodore 64 (yes, that's a long time ago). I started my professional career as a video editor and TV-studio tech lead, turned into a multimedia developer when CD-ROMs and the internet became popular, had a short relationship with C# and Flex, and since +10 years fully focus on Java.

As a hobby project, I like to teach children to program in a CoderDojo club, where I got introduced to the world of Arduino and Raspberry Pi thanks to the other coaches.

The best way to learn is to document and explain to others. That's why I blog on my own site, other sites, and now also on DZone.

Because I wanted to create a touchscreen controller with relays and Arduino-controlled LED strips, I started investigating how this could be achieved with Java and JavaFX. This resulted in a book "Getting Started with Java on the Raspberry Pi." 

By writing this book, I got involved in the Pi4J project. This project is intended to provide a friendly object-oriented I/O API and implementation libraries for Java Programmers to access the full I/O capabilities of the Raspberry Pi platform. This project abstracts the low-level native integration and interrupts monitoring to enable Java programmers to focus on implementing their application business logic.

Based on the documentation I created for the Pi4J project and articles for various sites and magazines, I also bundle a lot of information on this topic. For example, the latest contribution shows how you use JBang to run Java code to control electronic components.

This is just a quick overview of the JavaOnRaspberryPi resources I am working on. I plan to add more content here on DZone bundling certain topics. Stay tuned!