Working with Java ME Embedded 8 by
Using the Raspberry Pi Series
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Description
Intelligent devices are becoming an ever more important and ubiquitous part of our everyday lives. Mobile
phones represented the first wave of smaller personal computers. And now, as the price of electronics and
processing power continues to fall, there is an intersection between sensors and other electromechanical devices
and computers that live on the edge of the Internet: close to the source of the data, processing the data locally
and sending just what is required to other computers to consume. This wave of machine-to-machine (M2M)
technology, or more broadly, the Internet of Things (IoT), is rapidly shaping the future of computing. Oracle Java
Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) provides Java developers with a direct path to this new market space by using
their existing knowledge and skills.
The Raspberry Pi is a computer that is about the size of a deck of cards, yet it is capable of running a Linux
distribution on its ARM 11 processor. The Raspberry Pi also supports USB, Ethernet, audio, HDMI, and RCA
video output. But most importantly, the Raspberry Pi provides a 26-pin header that connects the computer to the
outside world, through general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins that can drive LEDs, read switches and other
electronic signals, and connect to a wealth of inter-integrated circuit (I2C) devices, universal asynchronous
receiver/transmitter (UART) devices, and more. This header and the Raspberry Pi's low cost is what makes the
Raspberry Pi an ideal platform to develop real-world embedded applications with Java ME Embedded.
In this series of tutorials, learn how to write Java Embedded applications and how to create circuits and connect
them to the Raspberry Pi to sense a change in a switch, light an LED, read the current temperature and
barometric pressure, determine your location using a GPS device, and more!
For more information about Java Embedded, see the Java Embedded Documentation page.