STM32 Arduino IDE Tutorial Getting started with stm32

In this Arduino Tutorial, we are going to take a first look at the STM32 Arduino Compatible Board. This board is powerful and inexpensive. Let's see what it has to offer!

The board I bought, which is also called the blue pill because of the blue color of the PCB, features the STM32F103C8T6 chip, which is powerful, ARM processor! The board is tiny. It is slightly bigger than the Arduino Nano board. Apart from the chip itself, on the board, we can find an 8Mhz Crystal and a 32KHz crystal to drive the internal Real Time Clock. The board uses 3.3V logic levels, but most of its pins are 5V tolerant. Let’s now take a closer look at the heart of the board the STM32 chip.

The chip is a 32bit ARM processor which is clocked at 72MHz! The chip does not offer WiFi or Bluetooth, but it offers, 20KB of RAM and 64KB of Flash memory which is enough to build large projects. It also provides 37GPIO pins, 10 ADC pins, SPI, I2C, CAN, UART buses and a DMA controller. These are impressive specs for a chip that costs 3$. If we compare the specs of the STM32 with the specs of the Arduino Uno, we can see that this small board outperforms the Arduino Uno in every field. The frequency at which the STM32 chip operates is 4.5 times higher than the frequency that the Arduino Uno operates. So, we expect the STM32 to be at least 4.5 times faster than the Arduino Uno.

First of all, to upload a program to the board, we need a USB to Serial module like this one which uses the FTDI chip. We connect Vcc from the module to the 5V pin of the board. Next, we connect GND to GND. Now we need to connect the RX pin of the module to pin A9 of the board and the TX pin of the module to pin A10 of the board. The last step we have to do is to place this jumper to position one, so the module to enter the program mode. We press the RESET button once, and we are ready. Let’s go to the computer now.

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[onurolce]

will you make STM32 lessons on Arduino IDE as series?

[ECOENERGI]

I watched a few videos but your demonstration was the easiest to follow and i was able to setup the Generic STM32f103 board. thank you for sharing

[henninb]

I was able to follow the instructions and program the device with the FTDI programming device. Thanks for the video.

[NewYorkeez]

Saved me some stress during 3 hours. Thanks

[ghafoorsamadi]

Hi GURU, very nice video, Dear GURU I'm from Afghanistan and I'm totally new in India, Can you please tell me where can I find Electronics shops or where are the shops in Delhi for electronics parts please.

[sergioares]

Are you left-handed?
I am also left-handed :)

[technolabcreation]

wow sir
it's very interesting
great concept

[batcircuit]

thanks, very much helpful.... love u.. :)

[asulliv]

I follow you all the way until you cut and paste(where did you get the address in ure Notepad)I’m lost up until that point

[puneetmudgal]

Arduino: 1.6.4 (Windows 8.1), Board: "Generic STM32F103C series, STM32F103C8 (20k RAM. 64k Flash), Serial, 72Mhz (Normal), Smallest (default)"

Cannot run program (in directory "."): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

This WAS THE ERROR MASSAGE FROM ARDUINO IDE, WHAT SHULD I DO??

[santoshbabu]

hi friend nice tutorial. i have purchased one STM 32 but i am stucked at a place. STM 32 do not have AREF pin. or may be i dont know which pin serves as aref loke in arduino nano. can you help me please.

[fecheverria]

Its great that people from India are great at tech. but it is a problem to understand. If you guys could speak slower and try to generate the words so most of us could understand it that would be great, dont miss understand me, i am Mexican, but i speak english slowly so everyone can understand me! thanks for your understanding, transmit info along fellow friends.

[samirdas]

Please stm32 led pixel led design software detail

[Elettronica-xtnm]

Hi really interesting video and I wanted to congratulate. If it was possible I wanted to ask you a technical support regarding the connection of esp8266 to stm32, since I would have to program it to manage relays with Blynk App via an I2C multiplex, it would be the mcp23017 chip. Thank you very much for your attention I await your response if possible.

[davidb]

Can work any touch screen on this module?

[buiciucdaniel]

hi, , , Have any idea why I can not see my stm32 board?

[ashishbhardwaj]

Hi. Can we program it using Cube MX or any other software than Arduino IDE?

[hieuphan]

Hello electronic GURU. I am new to this" micro-things" so I have to ask you a question. On this STM32F103C8T6 board has a built-in Micro-USB port to supply power. Is there anyway to use that Micro-USB port to upload sketch from Arduino IDE? I have follows some post from google by uploaded a USB boot loader "generic_boot20_pc13.bin" to the board via ST-LINK V2 & STM32 ST-LINK Utility but it seem not working. If you ever tried this successful please make a video step by step for beginner! Thanks in advance.