Getting Started with the Black Pill Arduino STM32F4

Some great videos have been made recently about the STM32 BlackPill, but they didn't show how to use it with the Arduino IDE. A user on my discord suggested a tutorial, so that's what I did!

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[emericopedraza]

I just wanted to thank you. I had been struggling with uploading code to the board. This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!!!

[smbanandanand]

Am an Arduino user getting into STM32. This content is just what I was looking for; should have ideally come from STM. Thanks a ton.

[ardakilicdagi]

Finally, a video that covers dip switches. Thanks for uploading this!

[benjamintremblay]

So grateful for this video. Without your explanations I would never have gotten to troubleshooting and discovering my USB C cables were not data cables.

[pure]

Good concise video, very helpful for getting started.

[bobflyer]

Caleb Marting: I posted over on the STM32F10x instructions looking for how to with the F4.
Found this video...Thanks all is working...Keep up the nice video's....

[davidklotzbach]

Thanks for the video. This was exactly what the seller should have supplied. I was struggling with getting anything done on this board based on the information I was able to find elsewhere.

[jamescullins]

very good, I just received one and will be using it soon. Thanks

[markfew]

This works great on my new black pill stm32f411ce with arduino 1.8.13 ide, It uploaded direct from the USB port - very happy thanks

[pflanzgarten]

Thanks a lot Caleb.
Working in first attempt with STM32Duino 1.9.0 Version on Arduino IDE 1.8.13. with a 3 button F401CC Board.
A little beast. About 140 times faster than Arduino NANO calculating 12!

[BigDPrettyBoyGigaFemaleSlayer]

I think I'm in the wrong place oops

[ragesmirk]

Just received the BlackPill F411CE and I must say this is an arduino killer !

[samdeur]

Interesting vid newbie here. Just wanted to say hi from the Netherlands new subscriber..

[paulkirchhof]

Thanks for the Video, Boardmanager is today version 1.9.0

[manytoolsmike]

Thank you for this video. I have the new 3.0 board and your procedure worked for me with the following additions.. I had to use a hairdryer to heat up the board. I saw somewhere that the oscillator does not work correctly at cooler temps. Also the timing of pushing the BOOT0 and NRST buttons is ridiculously picky. I pretty much push and release them simultaneously while trying to get the correct order; this usually takes 5 to 15 attempts!

[davidklotzbach]

Note: I found that the version of Arduino IDE I use, 1.8.12 has the value for LED_BUILTIN is correctly set based on the board you are using (PC13, in this case, and in the case of BluePill boards)

[dave_dennis]

Thanks so much! I'm REALLY getting into STM32 and these videos are hitting right where I am in the learning process.
Other than the built in bootloader, can you elaborate on what advantages there are of using the Black Pill over using the Blue Pill?
Thanks again!

[RVISION]

If anyone else has a situation similar to mine where they require all 3 serials the blackpills offers, the "UART6" pins will not work as expected if you use USB Support. Quite obvious in hindsight, a few of the forum posts I found talked about USB and the pinout also has USB + and - on those pins.

*Arduino IDE* *>* *Tools* *>* *USB* *Support* *>* *None* for working UART6. USB upload still works but make sure you unplug the UART6 device when doing so as I think it can cause problems.

Obviously, you won't get to monitor serial over USB anymore like shown in this video. Personally this is not an issue since my intent is to relay messages from 2 of the serial ports to the other port, connected to a PI3 A+ that will ultimately be running a more complex GUI program to monitor data received from both LoRa and GSM modules.

[wrightkevin]

I haven't been able to get the black pill board to play well with any of the arduino libraries like the adafruit ssd_1306 or even the basic Servo library my code just won't compile without errors. The blue pill works great with the arduino though. Any thoughts anyone?

[RwP]

With the old blackpill version, I have to unplug the USB to get it back into STM32 BOOTLOADER, when I just hit reset with the dipswitch on, it doesn't show the BOOTLOADER come up