Setting up a Raspberry Pi to run a Finch Robot

Posted by on 14 Aug 2013 in Java, Applications, Raspberry Pi

Half the battle is getting the Raspberry Pi up and running with Java installed. Once you’ve done that, the rest is pretty simple.

Firstly Install Rasbian wheezy on your Raspberry Pi.
Then install Java 8.
Create somewhere nice for us to work.
mkdir /home/mrn/dev/finch cd /home/mrn/dev/finch
For the latest version of the Finch development kit go to http://www.finchrobot.com/raspberry-pi. Search for BBTechSoftwareForPi and download it.
wget https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9303915/BBTechSoftwareForPi.zip
They’ve done that thing where you don’t get a containing folder inside the zip, so we’ll have to make it.
mkdir BBTechSoftwareForPi-9303915 cd BBTechSoftwareForPi-9303915 unzip ../BBTechSoftwareForPi.zip
Zips don’t hold unix permissions so we’ll have to add execute permissions to anything we want to run.
chmod +x Configure
We need to run this as root because it copies libraries into protected places.
sudo ./Configure
That’s kind of it. Make sure the Finch robot is connected.
Enter the Java folder
cd FinchJava
Compile the sample program
javac -classpath :finch.jar Code/simpleInput/LEDSetter.java
And run it
java -classpath :finch.jar Code/simpleInput/LEDSetter

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