This course is for you if you want to take a step forward in your learning, or if you are already experienced and want to understand more about free tools and how they are used in big open source firmware projects.

Heads-up: the video lessons are recorded in Portuguese.

Schedule

New lessons are published every week.

Course material

Click here to download the course’s support material.

Course content

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1. Introduction

Learn how to program an STM32F1x using VSCode and GNU tools like Make, GDB and the Arm Toolchain. We will also teach you about CMSIS, HAL and AL, and how to find information in datasheets.

2. Getting to know the tools

In this video I go through the tools we will use in our course. You will get to know GNU Make, GDB, OpenOCD and the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain. You will also understand what each one does and how they can be used.

3. Installing the tools using the console

In this lesson you will learn how to install the GNU tools and OpenOCD from the console using package managers: Chocolatey for Windows; Brew on Mac and Linux. At the end we show how to download CMSIS and our support material.

4. Creating the project structure

In this lesson I explain how to create the initial directory structure of our project, plus more information about the files provided by CMSIS. We are very close to creating our hello world for the bluepill with the stm32f103.

5. Creating your first program

Improve the quality and size of your code by programming with only registers and CMSIS, without using STM32CubeMX. In this video we configure GPIO C in Push-Pull mode to turn on the LED on pin PC13 of the blue pill board.

6. Automating tasks with Make

In this video, we show how to automate everything with Make. I will cover how to use Make to automate our project and manage its dependencies; we also take the chance to teach about GCC and how to use it for embedded software development.

7. What is GCC and why do I need to know it?

Coming soon.

8. GDB, the number 1 debugger!

Coming soon.

9. OpenOCD, the jack-of-all-trades of electronics!

Coming soon.