Java on the Raspberry Pi: Develop Java Programs to Control Devices for Robotics, IoT, and Beyond

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G. FlurryJava on the Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7264-0_6

6. Device Support in Java

Greg Flurry¹  

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Austin, TX, USA

 

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

—Frederick Douglass, 1857

In Chapter 1, I mentioned the challenge of finding or creating device libraries for your devices when using Java on the Raspberry Pi. That challenge occurs at two levels:

1. 1.

   Finding base I/O libraries for various forms of base I/O, that is, digital I/O (a.k.a. GPIO), serial, I2C, and SPI upon which devices libraries can be built

    
2. 2.

   Finding or creating device libraries for your devices, which require one or more forms of base I/O

    

In this chapter, I’ll discuss ...