Category: ARM Cortex

Coding for the Raspberry Pi Pico on Fedora or a Raspberry Pi

Back in January of this year (2021), the Raspberry Pi Foundation came out with their first microcontroller board calling it the Raspberry Pi Pico. The microcontroller chip (RP2040) used on the Pico was designed by the Raspberry Pi foundation and features a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor with 264KB internal RAM, support for up to 16MB …

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An STM32F103C8T6 based MIDI Controller for MIDI2LR (Updated)

In a previous post (here) ,  a project was introduced for those of you who use Adobe Lightroom. There is a way to use a MIDI hardware ‘box’ to control various Lightroom actions. I am told that once you use the hardware controls you will never want to go back to the software ones.  A …

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Multiple Rotary Encoders on an STM32F103C8T6

Rotary Encoder

Rotary encoders are useful for many things.  Here is what they look like (with and without the button): They have 5 connections (Power, Ground, Data, Clock and Switch). The button can be turned (continuously in any direction) and it can also be pushed down .         The switch connection monitors the button …

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STM32F103C8T6 Pin Tester to check your soldering

How good are you at soldering?   Here is the STM32F103C8T6  microcontroller board that I use  and have to solder all of the pins. Sometimes when I solder pins to the  board, the connection looks OK and even tests OK with continuity on a multimeter.  However, the solder connections even though they pass those two …

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PIR Sensor and Relay Switch to turn on a Light

PIR Sensor and Relay Switch to turn on a Light

Ever wonder how a motion detector is used to turn on a light? Take a look at this graphic (made with Fritzing). It shows the circuitry that uses an STM32F103C8T6 microcontroller to control a PIR sensor and relay switch to turn on a Light. Get the Fritzing source code for the above image HERE (in …

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An STM32F103C8T6 based MIDI Controller for MIDI2LR

MIDI2LR MIDI Controller

For those of you who use Adobe Lightroom,  there is a way to use a MIDI hardware ‘box’ to control various Lightroom actions. I am told that once you use the hardware controls you will never want to go back to the software ones. There is a Lightroom plugin called MIDI2LR which interfaces various MIDI …

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A Wireless WEB Server on an ESP8266

This is a short post which shows how to create a wireless WEB server on an ESP8266.  It uses a microcontroller, in this case an STM32F103C8T6 (BluePill )  to send commands and control the ESP8266 Here is what the wiring looks like:.   You can get the Fritzing code for this image here.     …

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STM32F103C8T6 Solar Power System Monitoring

If you read my last post on Solar Power System  Monitoring with an Arduino you might be wondering if that circuit could be enhanced a bit. Say, change the LCD to an OLED and add wireless (WEB server) capability? I was not happy to have to go out and look at the device when I …

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How a Web Server on an STM32F103C8T6 can be used to control a Relay Switch

BluePill As A Web Server With A Relay

Here is the circuit showing how a Web Server on an STM32F103C8T6 can be used to control a Relay Switch: The Fritzing code used to create that diagram/image can be downloaded here. An ENC28J60 ethernet module is used to connect the STM32F103C8T6 (BluePill) to a network. Here is the source code for the sketch to …

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Nuttx on the STM32F103C8T6

Nuttx Configuration Menu

Wouldn’t it be  C 🙄 🙄 L to have a Linux prompt on the STM32F103C8T6.  Not likely, however, Nuttx on the STM32F103C8T6 is about as close as you will get. Nuttx is a RTOS which runs on a wide range of microcontrollers including the STM32F103C8T6. To compile Nuttx for the STM32F103C8T6, a development environment needs …

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