Easy & Powerful Arduino Alternative? STM32 Beginner's Guide

You can get the STM32 Development Board here: (affiliate links):
USB to Seriell Converter:

You can find more information about the board and how to use it here:

Thanks to JLCPCB for sponsoring this video

In this video we will have a look at the Blue Pill development board that is based around an STM32 32-bit ARM uC. Along the way I will show you how to easily program it with the Arduino IDE and what advantages/disadvantages it offers in comparison to the traditional Arduino.

Music:
2011 Lookalike by Bartlebeats
Killing Time, Kevin MacLeod

[bzqp]

One very important thing that wasn't mentioned: You need to install drivers for your programmator/USB>TTL converter. By default there is no USB driver which would translate the serial signal and you will be getting port errors while trying to upload your code. If you don't know this you might waste hours trying to debug the wrong things and might come to a false conclusion that your STM32 is broken.

[nightrook]

I have been following this channel since you had about just 8 videos. No other youtuber that I know of makes videos as good as you do. Your videos are in a class of its own. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

[Braeden]

How in the heck do you ALWAYS give me the exact information I needed for my new projects in every new video you put out? Interrupts are exactly what I'm looking for!

[NNNILabs]

I simply don't know how you do it, but you make videos about a subject a few days after I come to know about it!
I received my STM32 board a few days back.

[turtleb]

I just love JLCPCB as a sponsor for your channel. It fits so well to this channel, you get that money for these videos and you don't overuse/overadvertise their services

[ECOENERGI]

Great Scott!! Great video!Of all the stm32f103 videos I have viewed, you gave the most info and also using leaflabs makes it easier to continue learning about the board. Thanks for sharing

[nielsjohnson-laird]

I had been considering the Blue Pill Arduino for a while now, but you convinced me to order some from Amazon. Thanks for you time and effort in creating this video guide.

[jamesmcfarland]

This chip (STM32) is also used in the iconic Naze32 flight controllers for drones. It's known as an F1 board, we use the new versions of the STM, like the f405

[TheSolderingGuy]

Very happy to see the STM32 getting more attention.
An additional thing to note is that most of these boards actually have 128KB memory instead of the documented 64KB. Thats a lot of space ! but your luck may vary.
BTW, using an ST-Link to program the board is a lot easier than fiddling with FTDI boards and jumpers.

[captdev]

I had no idea that the STM32 in this form existed, even though much of my work in embedded systems in the past has been centered around the cortex. I went and ordered a few of these to have some fun with - thanks for the suggestion @GreatScott!

[MrEdwardhartmann]

Great Video. One of the Blue Pill's best benefits is that it has a WS2812 library that is timer/interrupt based. The Arduino utilizes program instruction timing to create the waveform needed, but that requires them to disable interrupts. The Blue Pill has no problem servicing external interrupts while driving the led strips.

[matracch]

as I'm doing internship in STM I really appreciated this video :)

[LazerLord]

Just ordered four of these.

No clue when I'll use them, but I can see how these would be great for embedded systems in the future.

[Taran]

Thanks for the product review. It's always good to know there are alternatives that can meet more demanding PWM applications.

[TheMrFixMe]

Thank you GreatScott, it was a great instructive video, I wanted to use STM32 in my projects but I haven't found a great beginner's guide like yours. Now I know exactly what I'm going to do to develop STM32 projects. Thank you.

[dakcn]

Fantastic video. I learned more in 10 minutes then hours of fumbling around on the internet. Thank you for sharing.

[gshunlee]

Do you know how good your straight lines and hand writing is MAN I AM JEALOUS!!

[JayEffW]

Man. When I made a project with the nucleo dev board, I had to set up my own tool chain and I wrote the entire code for communicating with the peripherals myself. Good to know this exists!

[noealves]

thank you for the testing. always good to have another board to look after.

[shutdahellup]

lol i love your videos, they are so calming and satisfying to watch. And i always learn something new :)