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Oct 2, 2019 · 2 min

LED number display JavaFX library published on Maven

My very first open source JavaFX library is now available in the Maven repository! A small step for mankind, one giant leap for myself ;-)

#javafx#maven#electronics
Aug 30, 2019 · 2 min

DIY Arduino MIDI instrument

And another summer project got finished… ;-) My sons drum corps teacher triggered me to build an Arduino Midi controller so he could practice his rhythm skills.

#arduino#midi#drum#electronics
Aug 28, 2019 · 2 min

Mission accomplished! The finished drum booth.

As a summer project requires, this project required a summer to get completed ;-) I still need to think about a big (double) door and how to make that one with or without glass. …

#drum#music
Jul 30, 2019 · 2 min

Selecting sound isolation

To work out my box-in-a-box I needed two types of materials: something “fluffy” for the walls, and something “strong” to carry the floor.

#drum#music
Jul 29, 2019 · 1 min

Making a DIY drum booth

What do you get if you combine a drum-playing son and a father who doesn’t like to spend thousands of euros? A DIY drum booth! ;-)

#drum#music
Jun 20, 2019 · 1 min

Quick start Java development with Visual Studio Code

Great move of Microsoft! They provide an all-in-one installer for Java dependencies and Visual Studio Code. Take a look at …

#java
May 24, 2019 · 1 min

Clean Raspberry Pi GPIO testing with the Breadboard Pi Bridge

Some time ago I ordered a “Breadboard Pi Bridge - Pi Ports to Breadboard in Numerical Order” and reworked my Pi test setup from the previous blogs. And it looks really …

#raspberry-pi#electronics
May 24, 2019 · 1 min

Pi4J to easily work with the hardware of a Raspberry Pi with Java

What is Pi4J See https://www.pi4j.com/1.2/index.html This project is intended to provide a friendly object-oriented I/O API and implementation libraries for Java Programmers to …

#java#pi4j#raspberry-pi#electronics
May 23, 2019 · 6 min

Pi4J - Adding a REST interface with Spring Boot

As I was learning Spring Boot myself, I thought the easiest way to learn was trying to build an example and write about it. So here we go… :-)

#java#spring#pi4j#rest
May 23, 2019 · 3 min

Pi4J - Extending with a JavaFX info application

While trying out what Pi4J can do, I found it could easily be extended with a JavaFX application to provide info about the headers on a Pi board. This could later be extended to a …

#java#javafx#pi4j#raspberry-pi
Apr 16, 2019 · 2 min

PiJava overview - Java 11 and JavaFX 11 on Raspberry PI

As my daily work mainly is Java and back-end stuff on “real servers”, I set myself for 2019 as a personal goal to experiment with Java 11 on a Raspberry PI.

#javafx#pi4j#raspberry-pi
Apr 15, 2019 · 4 min

PiJava - Part 6 - JavaFX 11 on Raspberry PI with TilesFX and GPIO

What we will do Based on the previous blog posts we can install and run Java 11 we have a minimal JavaFX 11 application which runs fine on a PI So there is one “small” …

#javafx#pi4j#raspberry-pi
Apr 3, 2019 · 2 min

PiJava - Part 5 - Running the minimal JavaFX 11 application on Raspberry PI

In part 2 of this blog series Java 11 was successfully installed on a PI. And in part 4 a running Java FX jar was generated on a PC .

#javafx#raspberry-pi
Apr 1, 2019 · 5 min

PiJava - Part 4 - Building a minimal JavaFX 11 application with Maven

I prefer a Java app above a web app, because starting a new “modern” web development requires you to pull a bunch of dependencies and a lot of files before you can …

#javafx#maven
Mar 28, 2019 · 1 min

PiJava - Part 3 - What is Java FX?

What is JavaFX? From the Oracle site : “JavaFX is a set of graphics and media packages that enables developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client …

#javafx
Mar 13, 2019 · 2 min

PiJava - Part 2 - Installing Java 11 on a Raspberry PI 3 Model B+

After my first (and failed) attempt to get Java 11 running on an old Raspberry PI , I bought a brand new 3 Model B+ version.

#java#raspberry-pi
Feb 28, 2019 · 4 min

PiJava - Part 1 - Trying to run Java 11 on an old Raspberry PI

One of my goals for 2019 is experimenting with the latest Java and JavaFX versions on a Raspberry PI. After my experiments with the Python Pong game I was not very happy with the …

#java#raspberry-pi
Oct 12, 2018 · 1 min

Tafelspelletjes

Een JavaScript experiment Ik had nog eens zin om een VanillaJS experimentje uit te werken en een 8-jarige die niet graag de maaltafels inoefent… Een ideale combinatie zo …

#scratch
Dec 20, 2017 · 2 min

Pong on a Raspberry PI

As a self-study project I experimented to create a Pong game + slide shown on a Raspberry PI with Tkinter, GPIO and physical buttons.

#python#raspberry-pi#electronics
May 12, 2017 · 1 min

Radio-DJ voor één uur

Voor “internationale broer-zus dag” kreeg ik de kans om nog eens mijn radio-stem van onder het stof te halen en samen met zus Nathalie een middaguitzending te doen bij …