In this chapter you learned essential techniques on how to prepare the Raspberry Pi 3 ready to use with projects will be discussing through out this book. Then you installed Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi 3 followed by Java, installed NetBeans IDE on your computer and connected the Raspberry Pi with the local computer through SSH using PuTTY. Finally, you wrote a simple Java application, deployed it to the Raspberry Pi and run.
In Chapter 2, Automatic Light Switch Using Presence Detection, you will use this basic Raspberry Pi setup to build a automatic light switch which uses presence detection. So you will learn how to expand this basic Raspberry Pi setup by adding some hardware and software components.