I have got hold of a Inertia Measurement Unit Combo Board containing a gyroscope and accelerometer from Sparkfun and wanted to do something a bit beyond my normal routine of outputting some numbers to Tera Term.

I have done a bit of java at uni recently and was impressed with how easy it was to create professional looking GUIs and applications, so I thought I would try to make an application that displayed the data gathered by the IMU board that was a bit easier on the eye than reams of scrolling numbers.

I looked at the Interfacing with Java cookbook page and try to run the mbedRPC_HelloWorld. To this end I needed to download some java libraries and configure Eclipse.

Eclipse IDE

So I copied the mbedRPC_HelloWorld program into Eclipse and download the mbedRPC.jar file and put it into a folder I created in the Eclipse project called 'lib' as shown below.

I then pointed Eclipse to this .jar file by right-clicking and selecting 'properties' and adding the file to the Java build path

I then compile and run the program and hey presto the LEDs on the mbed flash as expected.

Java Application

So I can use java to interface with mbed, now to create a GUI...

To be continued...