[POLL (Closed)]- favorite STM32F1 board for stm32duino 08/2107

I know when this forum first got started most people were using the Maple Mini as their goto board. I’m wondering if that has changed and I’d like to know which board is your favorite.

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Based on comments below, when I do the next Poll I’ll add these STM32F1xx boards:

• NUCLEO-F103RB – http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/pro … 103rb.html
• OLIMEXINO-STM32 – https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/S … e-hardware
• Custom Board – A board you made yourself, please provide project log URL in a comment

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i’m curious so a similar poll for STM32F4 boards ?
maybe as a data point for in the future to see how it moves, which cores do people favour ?
run the set every 6 months?
stephen

Good idea. I just reset the poll to last for only 30 days

i still mostly go to the maple mini since it’s a bit compacter and higher quality. but i also have some bluepills & blackpills lying around to play around with .

Rick can you update it to refer to F1 if it is only for F1 boards?
Otherwise, I would add at least the black F4 as separate board option.

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I guess that is the big question. How many people are using F4 vs F1. Which leads to how many using something other than stm32duino core vs others.

I was hoping people would comment after checking “Other” and then indicate which board they are using. Then we can create a better poll figuring out which boards are the one most used here.

I could easily get a bunch of bluepill boards from taobao with 8~9 rmb(1.2 ~ 1.3 usd) for each(cheaper, smaller and way more powerful than arduino uno clones). so definitely….the bluepill wins for any geek projects, thanks to this community for the Arduino core

I voted other, but didn’t see how to enter the comment. My vote is for Blue Pad
http://wiki.stm32duino.com/index.php?ti … 7VET6_Mini

Thanks ollie your comment here is perfect

among the F1 i’m a die hard fan for MM (clone – from Baite) (the prejudice is because i simply have it)
among the F4 i agree with Ollie bluepad (stm32f407 mini) is about the most seductive (i’ve got a separate ‘china made (possibly designed)’ f405 the pins aren’t properly broken out, while black stm32f407 has an oversized footprint

Only 20 votes after +24 hours … come people step up and vote

Rick

I thought perhaps the forum does not have as many active members as we imagined, but I did a query on the database for then number of members who have logged in, within the last 4 weeks and the result as 288, which is higher than I had expected

Vote for Other as I’m currently working on Nucleo-F103.
Moreover, for a personal projet I’ve used a F7 disco to drive a goose incubator for my brother-in-law (Management of: temperature, humidity, eggs rotation).
For the GUI, i’ve used https://www.embedded-wizard.de/.

[fpiSTM – Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:57 am] –
For the GUI, i’ve used https://www.embedded-wizard.de/.

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Hi all,
I voted for the maple mini just as “reference design” because i like “integrate” it in other custom stuff.

An example is the project I’m playing on… the “CPLD Fun Board”:

The STM32F103 MCU (maple mini) is used as “stimulus generator” for the CPLD (and as 8/36MHz clock generator too). The CPLD is an EPM240T100C5 with 240 LEs, enough for some fun…
When fully tested I’ll post here (in the Custom Board section) a link with all the details (including schematic and pcb).

Functional block diagram:

Typical session (using the schematic editor):

After this one I’ll probably make an other one using an FPGA… (I’ve already a Cyclone II and a Cyclone IV laying around waiting to be soldered….)

[zmemw16 – Wed Aug 16, 2017 3:27 pm] –
i’m curious so a similar poll for STM32F4 boards ?

I’m not familiar with the popular F4 boards. It would be great if you setup an F4 poll @zmemw16

i’m amazed the bluepill is leading by so much XD
maybe i just came here too early when the maple mini was all we got, and i’m stuck there ever since XD

I’m sad that we are getting such a low response to the poll. I guess it is summertime/vacation time and people are otherwise distracted. I’m not convinced that there aren’t more maple mini fans out there. Where are you @mrburnette ? : )

I do have a bunch of Maple Minis boards. However, I tend to use my bluepills with and stlink debugger. I’m probably in a small subset of people who never load the bootloader on the BP. I find it is just easier to use the bluepills with a debugger than the Maple Mini. The options in the Arduino IDE aren’t really setup to deal with someone who wants to use a debugger with the Maple Minis. Also, the SWD pins aren’t marked as such so I have to look it up each time I want to do that, in addition to hacking the boards.txt file to allow for debug. And the final thing about the Maple Minis, I guess I’m a hamfisted board users, half of my Maple Minis have a decapitated USB connector : (

Next poll I’ll add:

1. NUCLEO-F103RB
2. CPLD Fun Board

Are there any others on our list http://wiki.stm32duino.com/index.php?ti … 103_boards that I should add?

I know there are F103 boards with the larger chips. However, my gut tells me when people take that jump they go directly to an F4 board.

Rick I think the blue pills are so cheap and widely available, nothing will come close, and I agree with you people looking for more resources will probably jump to an F4. It’s easier to find an F407 that an F103RET, and about the same cost.

Keep the poll open for longer, perhaps make it a sticky and keep it for much longer?

Voted on “other”. It is a custom board with an STM32F103RB and peripheral hardware, no USB (program via serial).

@peekay123 do you have project log for your custom board online?

oh btw i’ve got this board
https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/S … e-hardware
it is a STM32F103 RB
the price tag would certainly look bigger than aliexpress/ebay BP/MM
but for its price, some of the features actually looked pretty good, with things like separate LDO regulator for analog and digital, on board uSD card slot, LI-PO power supply option with *on-board* charger, arduino headers and last but not least which i consider pretty important, Olimex did pretty good manuals and released board schematics and layout and placed them on its product site.
it is actually my first ‘newbie’ board, i found the well documented manuals really help me get started and when after a long while i want to play with the board itself again, i can ‘think through my design’ simply finding all the necessary details from the manual and schematic

strangely it is listed as not supported in the wiki, http://wiki.stm32duino.com/index.php?ti … _64_pin.29
but initially i did successfully build sketches using the old maple ide and the old bundled libmaple to do basic blink tests, i’ve also successfully used this board with a DF robot lcd keypad shield
https://www.dfrobot.com/product-51.html
i’m not sure about the boot loader though, i still have the old maple bootloader in the board rather than stm32duino boot loader

Sorry for stupid question, but how to select poll?
I didn’t used till now..

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We will do another one in a couple of months.

i think it is time to do two new polls
one for the boards, not only for the f1 but also for the f4
and one for the cores

i m curios about what is changing here

P.S: roger, why normal user are not allowed to do polls?

[Rick Kimball – Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:13 pm] –
I’m sad that we are getting such a low response to the poll. I guess it is summertime/vacation time and people are otherwise distracted. I’m not convinced that there aren’t more maple mini fans out there. Where are you @mrburnette ? : )
…

Ol’ mrburnette was off playing with the ESP32. Plus, I am always lazy during the hot and humid Atlanta summers. And then there is the wife and her to-do list and vacation.

But, while I have blue pills for embedding in projects, I almost always use Maple Mini with bootloader 2.0 for R&D.
The USB connector never bother me. I know the forum has recommended hot-melt or epoxy, but I have come to love this product:

I’ve been hanging around the forum more recently than last year because I know Roger is time constrained due to his home repairs and work. It’s a lots of fun playing with the STM32 and the Maple Mini (Blue Pill) is very capable when care is taken to do proper software design. But the forum is a lots of work, too. Just a guess, but I think we are gaining a new forum member daily and most immediately do a second post to inquire about one thing or another.

Ray

Whenever I receive a new batch of Blue Pill boards my first step is to re-solder the mounting lugs of the USB socket and re-solder the push button switch. Since doing this I have not had any USB connector problems and no more switches falling off.