Stephen Chin

Foojay is all about the community helping to take Java forward, so as an attendee of the Friends of OpenJDK FOSDEM devroom you are already on your way towards making the Java community better!

But what can we all encourage our friends and colleagues to do in order to make the Java community more vibrant, active, and welcoming.

In this presentation, you will learn all of the insider secrets on how to support the worldwide community of 12 million Java developers.

In this session I will walk you through how to build your own retro handheld console that is powered by Java, runs on a Raspberry Pi, and is printed on a 3D printer. Some of the topics that we will cover along the journey include:

• Hacking Java on the Raspberry Pi
• Rigging input devices with Pi4J
• Insane performance tuning on the JVM
• Why your boss [or SO] needs to buy you a 3D printer!

And of course your retro gaming mettle will be put to the test, so make sure to dust off your old 8 and 16 bit consoles to prepare.

This presentation is about the most fun you can have while still legitimately calling this conference “work.” In fact, I will hopefully inspire you to do your own creative “work” leveraging Java and Raspberry Pi to hack the real world.

In this session I will walk you through how to build your own retro handheld console that is powered by Java, runs on a Raspberry Pi, and is printed on a 3D printer. Some of the topics that we will cover along the journey include:

• Hacking Java on the Raspberry Pi
• Rigging input devices with Pi4J
• Insane performance tuning on the JVM
• Why your boss [or SO] needs to buy you a 3D printer!

And of course your retro gaming mettle will be put to the test, so make sure to dust off your old 8 and 16 bit consoles to prepare.

This presentation is about the most fun you can have while still legitimately calling this conference “work.” In fact, I will hopefully inspire you to do your own creative “work” leveraging Java and Raspberry Pi to hack the real world.