Arduino for STM32

for this maple DFU boot loader, after you press reset, it should blink fast for like 6 times, you need to click upload or run dfu-util within about 4-5 seconds when it blinks there is a 'perpetual' mode, and I think the setting is 'boot1' jumper this is from the good old days http://static.leaflabs....

I think there is one more trouble, I think neopixels are driven at 5 V https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/WS2812B.pdf it may take a 74LVC1G17 to interface it https://www.nexperia.com/products/analog-logic-ics/logic/buffers-inverters-transceivers/schmitt-trigger-ics/series/74LVC1G17.html https:...

one should read datasheets e.g. https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/stm32f103c8.pdf 5.2 Absolute maximum ratings Output current sunk by any I/O and control pin 25 mA Output current source by any I/Os and control pin − 25 mA in fact it should be much less than this like 5 mA max, at 20 mA you ri...

custom bootloaders are 3rd party developed back in the 'old days' there is leaflabs maple, that is the first popular *duino running on stm32f103, the old forum which hosted this made improvements originally hosted by 'roger' https://github.com/rogerclarkmelbourne/Arduino_STM32 https://github.com/rog...

if you want to program a stm32f103 e.g. those 'blue pill' style boards. get a st-link v2 https://www.adafruit.com/product/2548 https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/st-link-v2.html https://octopart.com/search?q=st-link+v2 for 'blue pill' style boards, i think they put the headers for that at the '...

for neopixels I've been thinking about using Timers and DMA https://www.thevfdcollective.com/blog/stm32-and-sk6812-rgbw-led https://ralimtek.com/posts/2021/ws2812/ think Adafruit's Neopixel lib uses SPI? well nothing 'wrong about it' but that using Timers possibly 'saves' an SPI port and is possibly...

usually this indicates a bad usb cable

among the things to try, after successfully flashing through st-link, try with DFU again, maybe make some changes so as to tell that that is installed from DFU. it is quite possible the flash could be write protected. But that with st-link, there is a special means connect under reset which can ove...

if you can work with fpiSTM to do a commit for a new variant for 8 Mhz (by means of a PR pull request) do help to test that. the files that are needed to be updated are a copy of that variant file with a new name, and maybe some other source files (i'm not sure but you'd need to check), e.g. the inc...