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Revision as of 04:22, 11 March 2022
Getting started with STM32 development is a daunting task.
Prerequisites
Development Board
As mentioned earlier, there's a lot of different STM32 MCU variants and there's almost as many different development boards.
A very popular model was/is the so-called "Blue Pill" board:
There are different variants of these boards, but they are supposed to include a STM32F103 MCU.
ST-Link
The ST-Link is a device especially designed to flash and debug STM32 MCU's. ST can provide these at a reasonable price (< $20) but there are also a lot of Chinese "clones" available. The image to the right show a bunch of these clones.
While the original ST-Link devices provide additional features, the Chinese clones do get the job done and they have one benefit over the original that the pins on the device are clearly labelled. For some incomprehensible reason, ST decided not to label the pins on their device and that is really annoying in daily use.
Miscellaneous Links
Arduino
To be added
Stm32CubeIde
To be added