STM32 Arduino Tutorial - How to use the STM32F103C8T6 board with the Arduino IDE

In this Arduino Tutorial, we are going to take a first look at the STM32 Arduino Compatible Board. This board is powerful and inexpensive.

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[Educs]

I hope you took away lots from this video and you managed to get your STM32 board to work. Let me know below!

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[psubond]

Thank you for making these videos, this one helped me get the display working on my blue pill. I learn a lot from your videos, please keep it up!

[barrygmail]

Good video, well explained. Keep doing more of them for Arduino and don't forget to say "chip" as much as you can because I love your accent and the way you say it.

[freeelectron]

Hi Nick, Thanks for the speed test video. I am very keen to get started with this stm32 board in the arduino environment. BTW, great vids - more please :) I like your happy upbeat style.

[bernoinferno]

Thank you very much for your video.
I followed it and successfully got the modified Blink sketch running!
Next step - Get the bootloader on it so I can program via the USB port

[Ilikeridin]

I’ve looked at these before but I’ve only had an Arduino a couple months. After this video I will get a couple ordered. Thank

[maffysdad]

Thank you for the easiest description of adding this board to the Arduino Board Manager list. It seems like a nice little board to work with, easier, faster and with more connectivity than the Arduino Uno/Nano. Would like to see you do a small 'Video Play List' on your YT homepage for this board.

[JasonCarlson]

Just started using the STM32 boards. Very eager to see what they can do in relation to the Arduino nano I have been using. Upload times and process speeds are spectacularly fast!

[eldontyrellcorp]

Did several projects using this micro-controller and this is for sure very cheap for what it does.
It has a very good arduino ide support, and many libs are usable.

[petrol]

Thank you for the video.just bought one from Amazon . this is a good beginning 👍

[TheParamotorGuy]

I love your video. I was having much difficulty trying to upload a program using the FT232 serial programming. Your video helped me quite a bit. Very clear and informative. Would you also be able to demonstrate how to upload a bootloader tool in order to program directly via USB?

[eduardfc]

This is a fantastic little board. If you can use it with the native IDE and (HAL) libraries, it is even more powerful.

[gerwynjones]

I'm building a Mic/sampling System with this board, Great video by the way.

[kosa]

For some time i saw the STM boards on a few sites. But i was affraid to buy some of theese, because i dont have any knowledge with STM boards. Now i think i will buy a few of theese and try something new out. As always a very good video Nick!!! Thank you!!!😀✌👌👍

[daslolo]

Thanks for this tuto! Questions: the display is very slow for a chip this fast. I see you use SPI for the display, no DMA access? The mini USB connector which you use for power doesn't allow programming?

[anlpereira]

Hi, have you got some example showing how to use the SPI with DMA in the Arduino plataform? Thanks

[pramagetable]

dear nick how do you setup the arduino ide to avoid compilation errors due to 32bits conversion is there specific libraries for i2C thank you for your reply

[emiliodominguez]

hi, could you splaind me what do you use for power supply? is a extern battery?
thancks

[cbmamiga]

Nick, thanks for the ad :) BTW: probably all cheap blue-pills have 128KB of flash. And in 2nd step it is good to upload USB bootloader which allows programming these boards via USB cable only.

[vijaysulakhe]

Thanks for the video...keep it up with new sensors and visual outputs.