Hi AI Linke, Thank you for posting your helpful tutorial. I have an IOIO-OTG and am thinking of getting a RPi 3B to help with other processing. Have you played with Pi4J? http://pi4j.com/
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 4:57:28 PM UTC-5, Al Linke wrote: > > Hey everyone, wanted to share that with the new V5 Library Ytai has just > released, IOIO now works with the Raspberry Pi! This will ONLY work with > new V5 library so be sure and upgrade prior. > > I've got this up and running on my project now, video here > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GphJJjnksrc>. > > You'll see a custom IOIO board in the video but it will work the same > using a stock IOIO board. In this setup, the Pi is connected to the IOIO > over USB. I didn't spend much time on Bluetooth yet but I think it would > work over Bluetooth too. > > *Raspberry Pi Setup over USB* > > Step 1. Download the latest Raspberry Pi SD card image from > http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads and install Raspbian > > Step 2. Download the udev rules file from this page > <https://github.com/ytai/ioio/wiki/Downloads>, and copy it to your rules > directory (one time step) > *sudo cp 50-ioio.rules /etc/udev/rules.d* > Then restart udev > *sudo restart udev* > *or* > *sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart * > Step 3. Plug your IOIO into a free USB port on the Raspberry Pi and check > if it’s recognized using this command > *ls /dev/IOIO** > Most likely you'll get back either IOIO0 or IOIO1 > > > > Step 4. Install Java on your Pi > *sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre* > Step 5. Now just run your IOIO app from the command line or X windows ( > startx) > > java -jar -Dioio.SerialPorts=/dev/IOIO0 yourapp.jar replace 0 with the > number returned from step 3 > > One funny behavior I saw on the Pi is that when using the command above, > it won't work the first time but then works subsequent times. Just do a > CTRL-C to cancel and run the command again. However if you use this command > and don't force the port like this: > > java -jar yourapp.jar > > Then actually it does work the first time but just takes a little longer > for the port scans to finish. The theory here from talking with Ytai is > that this works because the IOIO lib is opening up the port initially > during the port scan when there is no port forced using the > -Dioio.SerialPorts=<your port> option. > > If you want to set the serial port programmatically in your app, here's > how to do that: > > call System.setProperty("ioio.SerialPorts", "/dev/IOIOx") from your > main(), before calling the "go()" method of your app. > > I think the low cost nature of the Pi opens up many cool new applications > for IOIO where the Pi can be left embedded in a project. Here's a few > things to share to take this further: > > > - PiUi <http://blog.davidsingleton.org/introducing-piui/>- turns your > Pi in a web server with a mobile friendly UI. The web server back-end is > python based. So you can make a java command line call from Python. > Essentially this setup puts your IOIO on the network where you can control > it from any browser. > > > > - Google Coder <http://googlecreativelab.github.io/coder/> - Web based > IDE for your Pi, supports javascript and node.js. Similar in concept to > Protocoder <http://makewithmoto.squarespace.com/protocoder/>. Someone > would need to wrap the IOIO libraries in javascript or node.js framework > of > Google Coder which would be really awesome, it's a very well done > implementation. > > > *BeagleBone Black Setup over USB* > > Unlike with Raspberry Pi, you’ll login to the BeagleBone Black as root > with initially no password. The other difference is that the BeagleBone > comes with a Linux distribution pre-installed. > > Step 1. Download the udev rules file from this page > <https://github.com/ytai/ioio/wiki/Downloads>, and copy it to your rules > directory (one time step) > *cp 50-ioio.rules /etc/udev/rules.d* > Then restart udev > *restart udev* > *or* > */etc/init.d/udev restart * > Step 2. Plug your IOIO into the USB port on the Beagle Bone Black and > check if it’s recognized using this command. > *ls /dev/IOIO** > Most likely you'll get back either IOIO0 or IOIO1 > > Step 3. Visit the Oracle JDK download page > <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html> > and > download the “Linux ARM v6/v7 VFP Soft Float ABI” version. > > - Copy jdk-7u4X-linux-arm-vfp-sflt.gz to your BeagleBone Black. > Replace X with the latest version of Java available which was 5 at the > time of this writing. > - Perform ‘tar xzf jdk-7u4X-linux-arm-vfp-sflt.gz’ to extract the JDK > - Perform ‘export PATH=$PATH:/home/root/jdk1.7.0_4X/bin’ to add the > JDK to your path > - Perform ‘export JAVA_HOME=/home/root/jdk1.7.0_4X′ to set the > JAVA_HOME on your installation > - Perform ‘java -version’ to verify your installation > > Step 4. Now just run your IOIO app from the command line or X windows ( > startx). > > java -jar -Dioio.SerialPorts=/dev/IOIO0 yourapp.jar replace 0 with the > number returned from step 3 > > Unlike on the Pi, you must force the port on the BeagleBone or you'll get > exception errors so be sure and use -Dioio.SerialPorts=/dev/IOIO0 > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
