I really like the detail of the LED blinking in sync with the music at the end.. :)

very satisfying led-music sync at the end! 🤩 and great, informative video btw, thank you!

Fantastic video! You're the man. So happy people are recognizing the utter awesomeness of the STM32!

I’m just getting started with these devices, so this info is exactly what I need to get past the initial hurdles.

Great explanation Sir, that was very helpful. You should definitely do a series about the STM32 boards and development.

After bad (native usb port) experiences with Arduino SAMD21 MINI, I have decided to switch to STM32. I have ordered a couple different model of STM32 boards from China and was searching some sources to learn how to get it working with Arduino IDE. This is the best what I found so far... Now, I beleive that I am ready to work with STM32 boards when they arrive. You saved my days... Thanks a lot.

Thank you for explaining it without a lot of fanfare and jumping around. There's enough to keep track of figuring this stuff out without trying to follow a scattered video too. I knew I'd found something special at 0:22

Well done. This is the best and most complete explanation I've seen. I might actually dig a couple of these out of the back of a drawer and try them again.

Thank you very much for this great and detailed video. I am using genuine /and fake/ STM32 blue pill boards for a time now. With your help my job just got better. You saved my life dude :) Thanks again!!

Wow this video is art, so precise and perfectly explained!!

This video saved me!!! I tried a hundred different things but with your help I was finally able to do it!! Thank you!!!!

Thanks for the video. I'm just getting started with this and after my initial research I decided to buy some stm32 boards. Never used any Arduinos, but these stm32s seemed much more capable and so cheap, I didnt see a reason to start with the actual Arduinos. Any more videos on this subject would be appreciated for us newbs. =)

Im a neophyte and had a difficult time trying to figure out what to do at the driver web pages. Figured it out and finally got it done. And it worked the first time.

great video! , Caleb Marting. I struggled a lot to install the USB bootloader a few months ago but I failed. I will differently try this tomorrow. Please do the mini-series on STM32. It would be a great resource for beginners. cheers !

Thank you for your clear explanation on how to do this. A real time saver!!!

Nice job Caleb...straight to the point and no bullshit.

Yes more STM32 videos. I am learning this too, from standard 8-bit Arduino. I like the uarts and hardware interrupts, for projects like closed loop motor control with encoders.

Absolutely perfect tutorial, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Btw there is a 5V pin on the STM32 Module

This vid is really well explained and easy to follow 👍🏾

Great Video and well presented...! Quite informative & crisp..!!

Very well done, thanks. I wish it existed two months ago when I had to painfully find it by myself. But now with this video I am at last able to reproduce it 😀

yeah, it works. Great job. Thanks a lot. Now I can jump over to stm32 easily

Hello, after a lot of trials and tests, I followed your video step by step and I finally managed to get the bootloader (...pc13.bin) for my "blue-pill" module working. I'm with windows 10 and it's much more random than with W7. Thanks for everything! Bonjour, après beaucoup d'essais et de tests, j'ai suivi votre vidéo pas à pas et j'ai enfin réussi à mettre en fonctionnement le bootloader (...pc13.bin) pour mon module "blue-pill". Je suis avec windows 10 et c'est bien plus aléatoire qu'avec W7. Merci pour tout !

Very informative video. I would love to see these processors used in either for Analog to Digital type of projects as well as Digital to Analog. Like the Teensy processors Paul has provided a nice web interface to build the DAC components. I was looking at using one of these processor to avoid buying DACs and ADC and Reference voltage since these should all be built into the processor.

thank you very much, after watching that video I was able to run my STM board finally!!

It really works. Thank you so much for step-by-step guide for dummies :-)

Detailed instructions, worked great!

perfectly explained ..... thanx man, ur video really helped my time

For everybody who is missing the information: To load the compiled sketch to the STM32 you should set the program jumper to 1 like shown THEN press the reset button. You have to do this everytime you want to upload a new sketch. Once it is loaded it will imidiatly start. If you diconnect power you set the jumper back to 0 and the program starts to run. Some Knockoffs may want to have the LED_BUILTIN renamed to PC13. However mine worked also with LED_BUILTIN and also when I mixed both pin named up and used them together 😂 Also mine worked fine when I accidently connected the VCC from the FTDI board to the 5Volt Pin of the STM32

Congratulations ! Great work. It worked fine for me. Thank you !

Great, very nicely explained. Did anyone notice the green LED blink with the beat sound at last ?

Works like a charm.!! Thanks

I was about to toss my SMT32 in the trash but your amazingly useful video saved it. Thank you!

Perfectly work. Thank you so much!

2:35 Don''t hold the board like this! You can make short circuit with metal tools!

If you have only 5V serial converter, you can use it also. Just do not power board from serials 5v, but power board via usb and keep GND connected. A9 and A10 pins are 5V tolerant.

Thanks for the video. quite useful and subscribed a thumbs up

This is superb, awesome and amazing.

What can i say awesome explanation this STM32F103C8T6 are next generation mcu for cheap diy projects its same price as arduino pro mini but far better

really awesome,,, thanks a lot. now i can enjoy programming with this board.

Suscribed! excellent description in excellent way! :)) Thanx

That final send off image, I will never see emojis the same

thank you, caleb, it's awesome

Just subscribed. Nice.

Great explanation, thanks.

Great work. subbed and liked

Very useful! Thank you.

Thanks for the help man

Thanks for this video...I got things working ;)

thankyou for making world easier place :)

Nice! It worked! Thanks a lot

Nice job an video Thanks for sharing :-)

The stm32 comes with a usb bootloader from the factory, what it doesnt come with as the ARDUINO bootloader. With a St-link programmer ($5.00) instead of the FTDI thingy you have debug capabilities, you can step through your code while its running live line by line so having serial (SWD) is still very useful, of course you'd have to upgrade your IDEfrom the Arduino and go for something like KEIL or SystemWorkbench or Truestudio which is for stm32 which is now also free like the rest. And once you upgrade IDE you are not stuck using just the STM32F103 you can use any stm32 chip, some have dual cores one core runing bluetooth and thus eliminate those huge bluetooth dongles etc. And if you dont like to open the datasheet and learn how to program the chip you can use STM32Cube and just call functions that do everything for you, Arduino style, you dont learn much but you get things done quickly so for hobbyists its perfect.

Great information! Just a heads-up, you have to register an e-mail address to download the flasher software. If your programming computer doesn't have an e-mail client (for verification) like mine, getting the flasher software will be problematic.

Great video

Very useful.. thanksss...

thank you.I ve got a lot of things.

Rocking. Cheers

MAGIC SMOKE REFILL KIT @ 1.55 Sadly, Sparkfun discontinued sales of the Magic Smoke Refill Kit I did some research to see if I could replicate it. The crystalline structure of the silicon that makes up the chips seem to crystallize in a tetrahedron form. when the voltage gets too high, the angular lattice of the silicone vaporizes, but the structure remains partially intact. By a rather complicated osmosis process, it might be able to be replenished. The best I could figure is that it would be a process of: Tetra-Osmosis Tetrahedron Angular Lattice Binary Sedimentation unfortunately, the acronym does not sound quite as scientific.

best intro ever XD

thanks man.u made my day

STMCube IDE is also so good. Are there videos on it ?

some boards have the 100kohm R3 resistor that connect BOOT0 header to mcu. In my case, when BOOT0 jumper is on 1 position, the pin on mcu only pulled up to 1 volt, which had me failed to flash the firmware. you might need to replace R3 with 10k. i just replaced it with a 2.2k smd resistor i had and it worked.

You had me at delete system32 😂

thanks my friend, its wonderful tutorial, please keep going on, and do more STM videos.

Thank you

Mmmmmmm.... Absolutely splended! I am the globaglinkgalub, the shubbleduble...

0:13 when you are very delicate handling the stm32 but in the end lose a grip and stm32 fell onto the floor lol

Hi, I have an .ioc file, how can I transfer it to blue pill with this method (using usb to ttl)?

Hey, just a quick question - can i use a rs232 to usb adapter instead of the ftdi breakout board? I can't order it now but i want to try using it

The Arduino does bootloader for the first few seconds, then becomes available as a USB serial port. Does that happen here too?

Thanks!

Thank you so much for the video! One question, I can undo the bootloader by flashing a random program via serial I assume? Like loading the blink program via arduino serial?

Can anyone tell me that after I install arduino bootloader in stm 32 then can I use any kind of nano or uno code in the stm board? Does it will support any kind of arduino library?

I always wanted to use STM32 without the need for the FTDI stuff... the video looks quite detailed, wich seems its harder than it appears... can you summarize in few steps everything that is needed? and after that? i will be able to write/rewrite just like common arduinos?

Thank you~~~~!!

Thanks a lot Caleb. I get it!!! Now, i can program my bluepills through USB and use Serial Port Monitor. Only a question. I need to press the reset button after upload a program. Upload works fine, but before press the reset button, the COM port apears disabled. After pressing the reset button, the Serial Port Monitor and COM Port works fine. Both jumpers on 0 position.

thank you, thank you, thank you

this tutorial works for the programs in the stm32cubeide?

do you know anything about unlocking the hidden 64k flash on these boards ?

do you have any ideas on how to get the 2 DACs working in the Arduino IDE? AnalogWrite is only able to output PWM for me, and i'd rather use the true analog outputs. thanks!

While I'd double check the datasheet and schematic. Most STM32 inputs that aren't in analog mode are usually 5V tolerant. (3.3V is still preferable, but it would be an odd setup to damage the MCU)

hey man tremendous video, can you make a tutorial on how to make the stm32 simulate a usb Keyboard?. can it be done with arduino programming? or do you have to use the st-link thingy?

what is the required value for R10? and what value of paralleled resistors that you used?

If you plan on using the blue pill as a usb device for a project, I recommend not installing the usb bootloader because I did some usb projects with STM32CubeIDE and they take quite a lot of memory. I don't have exact numbers written down but I could use over 40% of flash and RAM just to make a mouse with a joystick. Black Pills' uCs have an inherent USB bootloader according to datasheet though.

Super videoo

I thought any stm32 should support DFU bootloader on the usb port out of the box. At least in the datasheet they didn't say anything about adding any extra bootloader in AN3156 document. Or the goal of this video is to add an Arduino bootloader on the STM32? It is confusing to me.

Hello, do you happen to know or plan to make a video on nrf24 for stm32?

After completion of procedure, Is there any need to change that jumpers boot point at any point in FUTURE application and different codes

the driver was the issue then yissssssssss I actually have a jtag but usb is just more easy :P Thanks :)

Didn't come here to delete system32, already mastered accidently deleting it!

TIL! Thnx for the info! Are there any disadvantages to using the serial port method (apart from inconvenience)? Because I might need that extra 20kb of space. Great video thnx!

Could I do this install on a windows machine then use the STM32 with Arduino IDE on a Mac or would I still have to use windows to use it?

do the mini series! I'd love to know what arduino libraries work on STM32 without changing code

Hi where can I get the FlashLoader Demonstrator for stm32 ?

Does maple mini mean (or imply) stmduino? I'd like a video that shows how many gpio are actually usable on stm. Some say 37, but I see pins that are dedicated to other functions. I liked the triple-try usb connection humor. :-)

Can we use this bootloader without using arduino ? I ask because I prefer Keil. I just want the support for the USB port in the STM32

Looking seriously at STM32F4 board for just over AUD$10. 168Mhz, FPU, 1MB flash, 192K + 4K SRAM, heaps of I/O on a neat board. Currently use an Arduino Due that's great... but... but hate the default headers and well... 168Mhz and 192K is better than 84Mhz and 96K for a board that's ~60% of the price. Was looking at Teensy but not enough I/O for my project unless muck around with solder pads etc. I use Visual Micro under Visual Studio... and seems to install and compile. No point ordering a board if don't have means to compile... and as I just found out need a boot loader.

I thought the ST-Link is the one that perform the USB interface of the STM32F? can someone enlighten me on this one.

Every other "Getting Started" tutorial including the wiki is nonsense garbage thank you so much.