STM32 Guide #1: Your first STM32 dev board

You seem to be organizing really well.

Mitch I have a GRBL STM project I would love to show you and enlist your brains to make it more awesome I just posted a video Darwin Wandler and am such a rube don't have a clue how to point to it

im just going to keep using nanos

Well, having used Nucleo-64 boards with no issues either in STM32Cube or the Arduino IDE and subsequently wasted over a day with a black-pill 401 and a ripoff ST-Link just getting to upload stuff to the "pill" I think someone starting out would be well advised to use a Nucleo board given how cheap they are. With the pill the only upload solution that worked was to use an old version of the ST-link utility (STM32 Cube programmer and the latest ST-link utility didn't like the ripoff ST-link v2)

Great work man, appreciate it.❤+1

Thx for the tutorial! Starting to discover the F407VET6 Board which i bought 5 years ago.

Great video. Just purchased a F103RB. This is just for learning, and some testing. Thanks again Richard Brown

What is wrong with Atmel
I am well familiar with their avr. Great controllers of their time

This video really make things clear to me.

Arduino is trash. Atmega328p and the rest have been underpowered and overpriced for over half a decade, at least

There is also STM32F103C6T6 (with C6 instead of C8). It's even cheaper than the regular blue pill and has the same formfactor. The only differences are less flash memory (34KB), less SRAM (10KB) and it has 2 serial ports instead of 3. It's still much better and cheaper than Arduino. I'm mostly switching to it since it supports much higher resolution of PWM (12 bit instead of 8 bit). In Arduino the 255 steps are really noticeable on LED dimmers.

Great vídeo!

Best video I've ever seen for starters! congratulations

Apart from the fact that I am going back in time about 30 years, at the beginning of my professional career and then I followed other paths according to local job opportunities and I moved away from Hardware.
Now Taking advantage of the fact that I am already beginning my retirement and resuming as a hobby the MCUs and perhaps some freelance jobs.
Thank you very much, a great presentation regarding the ARM/STM32 MCUs, it clarified everything regarding this line of MCUs and it helped me a lot to decide to buy the development board and an associated book. And I look forward to seeing the rest of your videos. Very outstanding presentation. ;-)

This was an absolute god mode amazing tutorial and guide video on this complex STM32 topic. Huge thanks man. Never gunna forget.

BLUE PILL IS THE WORST TO START WITH IT WAS A NIGHTMARE FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!

I was just talking to a friend about how ridiculous it is how many part numbers ST has. Sometimes the later numbers in the PN just describe minute peripheral details or how much flash memory it has, etc.. My message to ST: There IS such a thing as too many choices. Please, whittle it down a bit for us.. I don't need to go to the store and choose between spaghetti sauce that has 80% tomatoes and another that has 81% tomatoes the same way I don't need to decide if I need a uC that 130Mhz or 150Mhz.

The blue pill is the way to go, the processor on it, is the one used in the st-link stm32f103c8t6 so this is most used processor because it's on all the develop boards

thanks for the review, stm32 are to many variant. your review help me a lot

Are you in a car during recording?

very informative, thanks

Thank you. Best explanation ever.

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One problem I'm finding right now is it's really hard to find standalone chips right now. I spent quite sometime learning a particular development board which is the Tiva C Series by TI to find out later that all the chips are out of stock everywhere, which makes it impossible to develop your own project. Particularly the Cortex-M4 microcontroller chips are impossible to find right now.

Absolutely gorgeous job, @Mitch Davis. You are carrying the word to those of us who are dabbling into the magic of STM32 MCU’s. Thank you!

Hi Mitch. I have the STM32F446RE Nucleo-64 I purchased from Amazon in Canada for about 55$! Why such a difference in price? I don't know. I have not used it yet. I don't understand how to use it exactly. It supports Arduino UNO, but why would I need the UNO when I have the STM32 board? As for the IDE, I can use the Arduino IDE or I can use the STM32Cube MCU. Others mention the STM32Cube IDE. What, if any, are the advantages of using either the Arduino IDE, STM32CubeMCU or STM32CubeIDE? This is not clear at all. I understand your initial confusion. I'm there now.

You get to join in the fun of figuring out which of the 4.2 billion variations of Arm you are using. Have fun reading manuals that cover 100 different processors. What are the chances they will keep manufacturing the one you use for a product? Pretty slim. Arm feels completely free to make breaking changes, they think you can recompile the world and redo every pcb layout, as a matter of course. There's a bit you can check to see if they broke everything, bingo, it's set, they are off the hook.

i'm learning embedded system, is this video help me, sir ?

Call me Scrooge if you will but there was only one choice for me... ... ... Blue Pill.
And, continuing the Scrooge theme, a great first project is setting up a Blue Pill as a Black Magic Probe, then you've got a programmer++ for very cheap.

Your American case will follow you to England don't choose sides. Welcome to planet America carry on....

👍 nice

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It is a very useful video. Thanks, buddy. Now I'm a real fan of STM32 and I can't wait for your next videos All two thumbs up! :)

I got the blue pill, because it was available, and a nucleo F3... however thats on back order lol! Can't wait for the blue pill to arrive next week!

The Bluepill is known to be broken by design because it has no Schottky diode at the USB power, which makes it dangerous for an attached computer if it is powered by another power supply at the same time. Also it has a wrong USB pull-up resistor, but this still works most of the time.

buying STM32 but still using Arduino IDE because of easy library access

I used an Arduino nano with the reset and ground pins connected and the tx and rx going to the blue pill to program mine (A9 and A10). Mine wanted the reset released about when the cube programmer was searching after you press connect. My understanding is there is a rom segment in system memory that is the loader that can program the flash. That isn't quite the same thing as being blank or reprogramming itself. That boot0 jumper selects the ROM of the flash to boot from.

Sometimes you really get lucky and find exactly what you're looking for, this was so perfect.
I'm interested in STM32 and I didn't really know where to start, now I know.
Thanks. :)

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Blue pill all day, you can buy em by the gross.

i bought the same one you did for the same reason about twelve minutes and eleven seconds ago,, hope i chose right , it cost $40

Thank you for making this fun to watch and so organised and clear 🥹🥹🥹🥹

I just choose a CH32V103 board.🤣

Such a nice video! Thank you!

Great video! Id been struggling to find an entry point to STM32 dev, this has really helped

Hey, I have a question.. What is the difference between F303K8 and L432k obviously without letter F and L, they are very very similar I didn't find none difference. Please I want answers. Sorry for my english ;D

Excellent Video for Beginners of STM32

Thank you for great work sir. You are helping world become a better place. Bless.

cortex m chips are expensive.

board is not 2 bucks anymore inflation :/