STM32 Guide #2: Registers + HAL (Blink example)

[@HTM-BSCEB]

STM is so convoluted for beginners that it took me 3 days to find this video LOL

[@AlixPro]

This is honestly the clearest explanation of STM32 microcontrollers I have seen so far. Please keep up this series!

[@tim8086]

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[@mithgil-cool]

Absolutely agree! Nice tutorial.

[@gokulramakrishnan4079]

ˍYes it is. I came across lot of videos to know about how to use the STM32. This one is the best one among others.

[@TheForbinone]

Life saver, I started a new job having spent 12 years designing and building Arduino / Atmel projects and PCB's some running very large devices. My new employer use STM32 which initially wasn't a worry but cracking the basics seems to have been missed by every tutorial but yours. Bravo you have lifted the veil of secrecy. It always feels like any new system / language has a natural barrier to entry and until you find a Mitch Davies the curtain remains shut. Thanks for your time and efforts Mitch.

[@zainulabideen6134]

Even though I am not a beginner and I understand everything that you are saying, I must say your way of teaching is nice, the only thing I fear is that you are going to stop making these videos, Please don't do that, some beginner must be dying to get someone like you to make them understand, and I wish your video was there a year ago when I started, Good luck.

[@guidorodriguez903]

Please continue with this wonderful series. Regards from Argentina.

[@kionmahuermicio9860]

¿Qué decís, sos Argentino?

[@arvindh4327]

Regards from India too

[@gauravbhattarai1521]

Vamos Argentina!! Who is the GOAT? Regards from Nepal..

[@vanshmantri2126]

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[@mortenlund1418]

Ditto from Denmark@@vanshmantri2126

[@PatrickRankin]

Less than 2000 subscribers?! Wtf? This channel is so good it's ridiculous! Everything was so thorough.

[@EdwardPie]

You are a great teacher! I've had my STM32F303 DISCOVERY for a year without being able to program it because I couldn't find the right teacher. Well, today I'm blinking some LEDs. Thank you.

[@nntebi1422]

The best explanation of STM32 microntrollers out there. This is gold for whoever is getting started. Please keep up the great work :)

[@bhaumikshukla4901]

Bro you're awesome. This channel is exactly what I was looking for.

[@mibo8130]

The "Hello world!" sample in the world of microcontrollers. Getting started with a new microcontroller and using a new toolchain usually requires a lot of reading before seeing any success. Great videos like this do not save you from having to deal with the documentation, but to me they are an enormous help. Many thanks Mitch - please continue !

[@beevees1636]

OH MY GOD. I'm actually studying stm32 for an exam but my teacher seems to don't know what he's saying and he supposes that everybody has used a micro before, but I haven't! You literally saved me. I started hating stm32 nucleo, arduino and everything connected to this world. Thanks to you I started appreciating it, you make everything so easy. Thank a lot, you deserve tons of views! Wish you the best!

[@williamjones9706]

Oh Lord - Would have saved this newbie to STM a ton of time. Best explanations - by far. You should be making a fortune working for STM as their spoke person. (If you want to) Seriously! Please keep posting these!

[@moinshaikh6684]

You're not an embedded KZbinr but a magician, we get all the things very easily you teach via videos....

[@Adeltraut]

Where has this channel been when I started working with microcontrollers. After googling through 1 Million RTFM posts, finally something relatable.

[@MKRCLabs]

please continue there is lots of things we need to learn from you

[@carlgradolph9676]

I've had a small STM32 development board sitting around for quite awhile now. The first time I opened up the package, my brain went into "stall" mode and I tossed the damned thing aside in horror.... Thanks to this video, I finally feel ready to pick it up and use it. I don't want to hate on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, MicroPython, etc., so I'll just observe that I'm a grown man of reasonable intelligence who is quite willing to trade "cutesy time" for actual learning about embedded systems programming. Great work, Mitch: Please don't stop making videos!

[@mpkdon]

usually i wont comment on any videos.im searching for good tutorial for past 10 days and gets bored by all tutorials.ur way really fits my style.thanks for sharing knowledge.

[@envisionelectronics]

This is literally the BEST explanation. I am always so confused by the different types of controllers and overwhelmed by the amount of jargon they use to describe things. I'm damn good with hardware, but programming software has eluded me for literally decades. I always hire it out LOL.

[@rahuls7039]

Thank You, Mitch. Your MITCHLED example is the best-explained video that clarified any doubts that a beginner like me have had. It is bliss to watch your video. That was a really great explanation. I'm grateful to you.

[@dchaitanya2032]

This is insane, its hard to believe something of this quality is out for free. I appreciate the time you have taken to make these videos, it's been very helpful even to someone from a non-electronics background (I'm an ME branching out into controls).

[@dieselgeek]

This is by far the best "get me up to speed on stm32 and I know a little about Arduino" across the entiretyl of KZbin. Thank you Mitch

[@dieselgeek]

Unfortunately, none of my Blue Pills (which have the correct resistor, etc. but are obviously clones) will flash. The sad part is, I can write an arduino program to make them blink and it works, downloading via STLink. still working at it :)

[@dieselgeek]

figured it out, user error as always

[@willgordge6003]

You’re a brilliant teacher. I’m studying electrical engineering, and was always quite frustrated that in our first embedded systems module, we use an STM board, as I thought that they were over-complicated and overkill for the introductory projects we do. On top of that, we have an extremely incompetent lecturer and there seems to be very little content online. Thanks for your effort, having these basics cleared up clarifies the whole process and I feel much more comfortable learning about more complex topics in the curriculum now👍

[@derrickadusei7987]

i just love how you have simplified such tedious configurations in the stm32 cube . i think people should make things clear and simplified like the way you do . i dont see how making things that already complicated look more complicated.i wanted to stop learning this but because of your video im interested in it again.

[@agentslimepunk]

You are a wizard. Normally tutorials sound like nonsense to my brain, but you've got a way with teaching. I can't wait to check out the rest of your videos!

[@KarthikArumugham]

Fantastic explanation, Mitch! I’ve watched several introductory videos from other channels, but none of them mentioned the autocomplete feature and the registers, which I found really cool. Thanks for covering those details!

[@Bob-Is-A-PotterNow]

I have spent (wasted) hours trying to sort out how to run blink LED program. In the past with msp430 devices and a short tutorial it was up and running in minutes, not so with the stm devices and the ide. Your walk through answered all the questions for both the nucleo board and the blue pill I've been experimenting with. Possibly the best 30 minute investment I've made in quite some time. Thank you for your work. (Having produced many youtube videos in the past, I fully appreciate the effort and understand how a 30 minute clip can take days to record and edit!!!) Glad to have subscribed!

[@hainesjw]

I am porting labs for a junior level university course to STM32 from another brand that chose to End-of-life their chip and dev board that we'd previously used, and found this recording (after the register review) to be helpful to give students an overview of the cube IDE and HAL configurator and programmer. Thank you!

[@capistor1]

This is awesome. Truly amazing how you've managed to squeeze in so much information into 30 minutes in an organized manner. Didn't get bored for a single second.. totally worth the 4 days of hard work.

[@gytismonstvilas166]

Ive been working with stm32 (mainly nucleo and discovery boards) for 4 yrs now and this is honestly the best video ive seen

[@tharless100]

This video saved me a TON of time. I know this video is a few years old, but it still is one of the best resources out there for learning how to work with these boards. Thank you so much for putting this together.

[@ananthakrishnans4951]

i have been working on stm32 for 2 years and still i watched entire video because of your presentation.. awesome ♥️

[@lamp007]

Best Explanation of how to program the STM32, makes it so much easier to get something working, and also explains the fact that to see your code run you need to move the Boot PIN connectors in order to see the output of the code. Spent days unable to just find a video explaining how to get the Hello World level programming for this chip without using the Arduino IDE...Thank you!

[@makrinatskipurishvili6025]

Your videos are so good. I am a Computer Science graduate and now getting into microcontrollers. I am good at programming but regarding microcontrollers I only have an Arduino experience. So I wanted to learn more in depth but I was so confused and overwhelmed but all the recourses I found. Your videos are so easy to follow and understandable. THANK YOU!

[@sanjune1370]

Here as a noob in 2024. Thanks so much for this series, it's making my project seem possible!!

[@kd4pba]

This is absolutely the best STM32 video I have seen. Thank you for making such a detailed and informative video.

[@mikekidd5975]

These three STM32 guides are among the best presentations I have ever seen. They are clear, concise and informative. Keep up the good work Mitch!

[@ryansand8158]

This is the best sereies of microcontrllers and how they work and great examples. 5 years of engineering school and diy projects and i finally see the overall picture here.

[@ADDEYAFFENDYBINHJIDAM]

Thanks for this setup. I'm able to blink the LED now. The clearest tutorial I have seen so far. Great job Sir.

[@jeanlouism3807]

I am an absolute beginner.This video is absolutely brilliant. I spent a full week trying many tutorials on KZbin with the only benefit of being depressed... Until I found your video. The explanations are clear, to the point, you make sure you don't go into unnecessary items to avoid scaring guys. The quality of the video is great, speed is as it should be. And the green led is blinking. I am a definitive fan. Congratulations and many thanks

[@muthukkumar9259]

This is the best explanation anyone could give.. U explained almost everything which other KZbinrs tend to skip… Excellent video! Keep up the good work!❤

[@Leo_Aranji]

hands down THE BEST teaching video I have ever seen. I am studying embedded systems and would love to see some complicated projects, like programming a sensor and displaying the data on a LCD screen, or something similar. thank you very much!

[@DhruvPatel-jo9tn]

These videos have helped me greatly in learning about the embedded systems required to build a CubeSat! Please continue to post more for this playlist!

[@RobertSmith-wj7zf]

Mitch, I love your style! Please, please, please more STM32. Specifically, STM32H747 M7 and M4 cross core operations like shared memory, RPC's, cross core interrupts, etc. These are the best STM32 videos I have found. Thank you!

[@bilinguliar]

Last year I watched your excellent bare-metal AVR series and built something with Attiny85. Now, because of how Windows-centric dev environment for new AVR chips became (UPDI), I am looking for a switch to ST. Thanks again for your videos, you are a great teacher.

[@tonyradice4166]

Mitch - Thank you for making these videos - As a retired hardware engineer I have been playing with the software that in the past I've only been able to watch (and admire) others do. I look forward to looking at more of your instruction - I am especially looking forward to finding out about timers! Thank you again!!

[@ramimehyar481]

Thank you KZbin algorithm for suggesting this channel and series!! This is the best content regarding STM and MCUs in general that i came across so far!! Along with Ben Eater's of course! :D

[@zetaconvex1987]

Many thanks for that. It helped clarify a lot of things that were confusing me.

[@Mr0neShotAway]

Please continue, a proper series like this was missing on KZbin. You have a great way of explaining and keeping me focused lol

[@jeff-ki9qz]

Great vid man,! I'm trying to learn this IDE at the moment as a mechanical engineering with a group of experienced electrical engineers, which has felt very overwhelming. This video really cleared up a lot of my confusion, thank you!!

[@davidbrooks8621]

The video is worth every minute you invested in it. So 4 days is worth a lot. We can learn a lot from you. You are simply contributing to humanity with the help of your wonderful knowledge and ability to abstract so that everyone can understand what you are teaching.

[@Bill-qo2jb]

Great stuff Mitch ! I liked your STM32 series of videos. Your teaching technic is well organized, covers a lot of stuff, and explains every detail in the correct order. It's obvious the great effort you placed in what you do, and thank you for your time preparing these presentations. We'd like more STM32 videos ! Keep up the good work !

[@thorntontarr2894]

Just viewed Vids 1&2. You have clearly saved me an EMENSE amount of time. You have clearly & cheerfully explained in "30 minutes plus" how to blink an LED. However, this has been such a "Rosetta stone" video pair into STM complexity. I am heading toward active debugging using ST-Link so I will stay tuned. Cheers.

[@regal_7877]

This is such an amazing video I can't even begin to describe. All the other "How to program stm32 bluepill" only ever shows how to use the damn arduino platform. There's barely any information on truly getting started with and ARM chip like STM like you did. Going through the difference between ARM and AVR, platforms, IDE's, Compilers, CubeMX, CubeIDE, CubeProgrammer, HAL, UsinG STLink V2 to program. Just amazing. Please continue the series. Please Please

[@regal_7877]

@@MitchDavis2 "The native way". Those were the words I was looking for. Anyway, subscribed to stay updated on the following videos.

[@will6287]

This is the best stm32 intro video series without a doubt!

[@ShizzleMyChizzle]

Yeah I just have to comment again, this is ridiculously well done. Concise, straight to the point, clear, passionate. You got a talent my dude!

[@janzaibmbaloch5484]

Please continue your series of these videos. These fun tutorials have been superhelpful to so many people, we are awaiting more content from you.

[@1southsoon]

I learned more from this one video than the 80 hours of class time I have spent this year. I, like many, am "Monkey Smart". This means that I can learn from doing and seeing and not from reading a book. Thank you.

[@gregsuarez5205]

Wow, you are technical and also such a great communicator. I feel 'enabled' after going through these. Liked and subscribed. Thank you SO MUCH for your time and putting this together. I wish you could know how helpful this has been for me. Thank you

[@Ngigi]

And you did really well because it is very easy to follow. I already got my way around the nucleo board, and blinked the LED with the first attempt! Seamlessly!

[@jonathanhernandez4304]

I am moving away from Arduino to bigger and better things. I just found your KZbin channel and I have to say I am glad I did. Your explanations are clear and at the right pace. I love the STM32 IDE workspace and I am well on my way to learning STM32 projects along with FPGA eventually. One learning project at a time for now though. Good channel.. I look forward to getting through the rest of your posted lessons. Thank You.

[@ShizzleMyChizzle]

Dude your passion for the subject is contagious. Keep it up it's GOLD you are distributing here!

[@luciomath]

On Mac, the macro expansion key command is (command with =/+) while a given macro is highlighted. Have been working with stm32 a while, and still enjoyed your explanation a lot. Please keep going with the series, the stm32 community needs this kind of attitude to demystify things for all! Subscribed :)

[@AbdullahKhan-gi4co]

I have been working on STM bluepill for last 30 days and still had no clear understanding. This video really helped me. May God lead you to correct path always and forever.

[@DanielMelendrezPhD]

Alright, today the algorithm worked in your favour and after watching a couple of minutes, I am in. Subbed and added your guide to my watch list. I have been extremely reluctant to start learning STM development for multiple reasons, the main being that I get so freaking annoyed by the required workflow. It is SO FREAKING convoluted! Let's see how it goes Thanks

[@adwaits]

I am getting started and this was the best video I found with the most detailed and easy to follow explanation for beginner like me. Thanks!😊

[@kenwallace6493]

Whoa! Been fighting these ST ARM micros for a while but found this video very clear and, best of all, makes me want to revisit HAL (which I have hated). The scariest part of HAL is finding the function you want and then understanding just what it does. You have to know what to type to get to a reasonable CTRL-SP list. Anyway, I'm all in.

[@vishvraval4079]

underrated channel ,the effort to make it this simpler !! hats off!

[@FlyGamingChannel]

Best STM32 series on KZbin. Thank you. Would love to see you implement something a little more complex. Maybe a PID controller, addressable RGB LEDs or a mini-series on communication protocols. The sorts of projects beginners often take on after blinky.

[@יובלאיטקין]

Great videos! moving from arduino to stm32 is quite scary for me, this videos are making it much more clear! thank you

[@keen2461]

What an awesome video! The explanation is so clear. I already know most that stuff but you got me totally engaged throughout the video. Excellent job.

[@guruG509]

Please do continue this series to expert level, don't stop this awesome work

[@LiQuiZeLL]

Hello Mitch, I am studying Electrical & Information Technology in Germany. Your video is just great and explained in great detail. THANK YOU!

[@comandernehal8567]

Please Dont Stop Making These Tutorials. We Need You Man.

[@birdost12345]

Please continued this series. We need this. You’re awesome thanks.

[@nathanquattrochi1299]

I will watch this series for as long as you continue it. This is some of the best content I've seen on youtube (and I'm gen z so I've seen my fair share lol)

[@shafiqrahman8702]

Mitch we want to see more video like this. You have a unique style of teaching. Thanks for such an outstanding video.

[@georgepvs]

Mitch thanks for the set-up info on STM32 it was very helpful instead of digging into the ST manuals just to find out how their IDE works. And yes you did do a very good job explaining things.

[@kB-hg2ci]

Mitch, you're a life saver. You made my entry into embedded a pleasant experience and motivated to keep going.

[@stevelitt]

Mitch you are a legend in the making. Thanks so much for all the work you've put into this and your other videos.

[@geoffdraper138]

Mitch, You have explained so much that the ST doco does not. Thank you!

[@gonesurfingNC]

This is better than any paid course I've found so-far.

[@mvbelinskiy]

this is so clear and interesting for absolute newbie in hardware programming. Kudos for all your efforts!

[@MihaiDesigns]

Awesome job, Mitch. Thank you!

[@ochomenosocho1006]

19:31 you can do that this way: 1.- Click the variable 2.- Leave the mouse on the variable for a one or two seconds 3.- Now it's done! Thank you for the video, you really helped me!

[@Lasseu]

Doesn't it show up with F2 like it says in the box's low right corner? "Press F2 for focus" ??

[@gapguy9564]

@@Lasseu f2works?

[@mustafaissa98]

you literally made it easier for me to understand how to use HAL with STM32cube, I wish someday you will create a Udemy course and i will be your student from day one

[@philipbranch668]

This is terrific Mitch. Really makes it easier to understand.

[@LITHIUMINWATER]

As clear and concise as it can possibly get. This is awesome. thanks!

[@darkeagle999]

Awesome content Mitch! Hope to see upcoming STM32 videos soon!

[@naidol]

Well done. Your pace and content has hit the sweetspot compared to all other videos on explaining STM32. I will definately search for more of your videos.

[@pszym87]

Dude! Thanks a lot. You taught me more than poring over manuals. Great introduction to STM32. Cheers.

[@mohammadtila7746]

Bro i am at my internship right now and the whole day i was stressing out on this STM32 project i have you dont even know how much you have helped me. I love you (no homo)

[@hobomaster6237]

best tutorial vids on youtube love it , could watch you explain/teach anything

[@waynedahlberg927]

Love this series on STM32. Please keep it going!

[@weiye701]

This is an amazing tutorial. I made my very first blink program working on the stm32 discovery board!! Thank you so much for the video!!

[@johnbabrick]

Really good work here, best I've seen so far. ST should use you for their videos.

[@LucasBiunessa]

Comparing it to the Arduino I was able to understand twice as much how it works. Thank youu from Brazil !

[@josebecerrafernandez8241]

You explained this better than the Udemy courses that I paid for . Cheers!

[@missamo80]

Spectacular video. Yes, it's a 30 minute video to blink an LED, but it's totally worth it for the crystal clear explanation of the STM32Cube magic that gets glossed over by so many other videos. Would love to see a video in the future on how to replicate some of the most common Arduino tasks, like serial communication and maybe using external libraries, or a video on the basics of debugging (a huge benefit to STM32 over ATmega).

[@abdularisumar5741]

Thank you so much for your explanation. I have such experience in Arduino but I am happy that I can go to STM32 by watching your video, and your explanation is awesome for those who have experience in Arduino.

[@peterlaidlaw8655]

I'll add to your list of satisfied users. Very well done, clear, good and useful and got me going right away. STM owes you big!