Saturday, June 28, 2014

A Great Book for Studying the STM32F1 Family of Microcontrollers

I'm bound to learn the STM32 microcontroller, in the shortest possible time, for an ongoing project. While searching for resources and references on the web, I found this book, Discovering the STM32 Microcontroller, written by Geoffrey Brown.


The author says the book is written as a hands-on manual for learning the STM32 microcontroller. A quick browse of it shows it is so. The sample projects use actual peripherals that you may have to deal with, including the Wii Nunchuck (for demonstrating the I2C protocol).

For newcomers to the STM32 microcontroller, I think this is a great start. It saves you the time from reading all the technical details in the reference manuals and figuring out how to apply what you've just read from them on your project.

Installing Eclipse (4.4) Luna on Xubuntu 14.04

Xubuntu 14.04 (Ubuntu) still provides Eclipse 3.8 on its repositories. To install the latest release of Eclipse (4.4), the package must be downloaded from Eclipse's website, and extracted manually.

The package can be downloaded here:

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

STM32 Flash Loader for Linux

e-Gizmo STM32 MCU Board
I've had this STM32 Board from e-Gizmo for about 2 years now and I think it's about time it gets powered up.