New Adafruit STM32F205 board with wifi

https://www.adafruit.com/products/3056 – $35

It’s supposed to have support for TLS 1.2 (which esp8266 does not), which is needed for things like talking to Amazon’s MQTT.

They also started with the Maple base for Arduino support. Their code is at https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_WICED_Arduino

They also have a bunch more information about it here: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing- … i/overview

Downside is the broadcom wifi chipset firmware and interface library is binary only, but that’s unfortunately normal for wifi.

Interesting

Using the old Maple F2 code seems an odd way to go about a new commercial project

Two things I just think about:
1) Observe their code, it’s Adafruit they didn’t have done everything wrong with their libraries (on the contrary!)
2) Give them a hint, that the STM32duino code is FAR further developed than the leaflabs original one. It would be a nice thing to give Adafruit some code back.
Sadly it’s a niche product, so they won’t do much further with the board.

Ok, if I have time tomorrow I’ll do 2) and leave them a message on github. Edit: done.

Funny response after one minute:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_WI … /issues/34

Thanks Matthias

Its interesting to see the responses

I thought that F2 support was originally part of libmaple, ( there are lots of references to it in the core), but I’m not sure how stable it ever was. ( which is why I thought it odd that they used libmaple for their product)

The F2 part was definitely of the original core, but I think it was added “later” (after official support stopped 2 or 3 years ago), like (later) the nucleo STMF103 (which I have completely rewritten because of many mistakes), so I guess there were some “blueprints” for further projects, which were never realized.
It would be a cool thing if Adafruit is going to dig more into STM32, I’m sure we would get a big benefit out of it. *wishful thinking*
It’s really a funny thing: There is no “big company” behind STM32 *duino:
AVR-ATmel = Arduino
Microchip = Digilent (chipkit)
TI = Energia (=Robertinant, but “official” linked by TI)
but STM32?

LOL

Thanks Ray

I didn’t realize that our repo had been forked by Adafruit, I presumed that they’d forked the original version.

RogerClark wrote:LOL
Thanks Ray <…> I didn’t realize that our repo had been forked by Adafruit, I presumed that they’d forked the original version.

Did they really remove the Leaflabs copyright !!

I wonder if they have an agreement with Leaflabs about that.

(BTW. As far as I know the Leaflabs guys were working for Google last time I looked at their site.

RogerClark wrote:Did they really remove the Leaflabs copyright !!

I wonder if they have an agreement with Leaflabs about that.

(BTW. As far as I know the Leaflabs guys were working for Google last time I looked at their site.

Do we care? She calls bog standard ws2812b leds neopixels. She is all about rebranding.

Rick Kimball wrote:Do we care? She calls bog standard ws2812b leds neopixels. She is all about rebranding.

I don’t quite understand why they forked my repo or the original Leaflabs repo

I’d have been much more inclined to put the effort into forking @sheepdoll’s HAL based repo, or Avik’s Koduino repo, as both of these are based on the CMSIS etc

Especially as they are only supporting one processor variant in the F2 family.

BTW. Looking in their repo they don’t seem to have the SPI lib yet. Perhaps they are rewriting it from scratch

If I had a few months of downtime, I’d probably take @sheepdoll’s work and build upon it, but having any free time seems highly unlikely at the moment.

RogerClark wrote:
If I had a few months of downtime, I’d probably take @sheepdoll’s work and build upon it, but having any free time seems highly unlikely at the moment.

I sometimes read about all these cores, what’s it all about? Are they all arduino compatible, what’s the difference between them, what’s still to do to get them usable, etc…

racemaniac wrote:I sometimes read about all these cores, what’s it all about? Are they all arduino compatible, what’s the difference between them, what’s still to do to get them usable, etc…

mrburnette wrote:racemaniac wrote:I sometimes read about all these cores, what’s it all about? Are they all arduino compatible, what’s the difference between them, what’s still to do to get them usable, etc…

racemaniac wrote:
And what’s the difference between the cores that are being discussed here? I’ve been playing around a bit in the maple core for what i’m currently doing with driving the i2c hardware directly. Why would we want to move to a different core?

Just curios, if anybody has been able to use the new Adafruit WICED Feather WiFi (F205) board. I did follow the instructions on Adafruit website for setup. There were no error messages during the lengthy manual process. In CC Arduino 1.6.5, I can select the WICED Feather, but the compilation fails with all section alternatives.

There seems to be problem(s) in USB communication, because the port selection is not available.

I have not yet soldered the SWD pins to test this board with mbed or EmBitz. It would be nice to have this available in Arduino with plain USB connection to setup the wireless communication.

Anybody, any recommendations?

Cheers, Ollie

Ollie wrote:Just curios, if anybody has been able to use the new Adafruit WICED Feather WiFi (F205) board. <…>

Adafruit stuff is too expensive for me as well, mainly due to the overseas shipping costs.

I did buy some EMW3165 modules from SeedStudio, which also have a broadcomm WICED WiFi device, but have never used them.
Actually I think I destroyed one, trying to solder to its tiny SMD pads.

Currently Im mainly using the ESP8266 for Wifi projects, but I am now finding that the ESP8266 is only suitable for simple wifi projects, as for example it does not have support to communicate with some of Amazon’s services.

And there is a big lack of example code from Espressive for prominent technologies like MQTT.

So in the longer term I may have to upgrade to using broadcomm devices for some Wifi projects ( but it will be steep learning curve)

Rick Kimball wrote:Do we care? She calls bog standard ws2812b leds neopixels. She is all about rebranding.

Is it not a GPL requirement to keep the copyrights in the code, even when forked?

keypunch wrote:Is it not a GPL requirement to keep the copyrights in the code, even when forked?

RogerClark wrote:keypunch wrote:Is it not a GPL requirement to keep the copyrights in the code, even when forked?

I’m not sure if the MIT license prevents the company who wrote the code (Leaflabs), selling virtually the same code to another company (Adafruit) with a different license, i.e Adafruit are allowed to re-brand.

You presumption is that Adafruit didn’t contact LeafLabs and re-license the software.

Im a little confused by this thread, have adrafruit stollen rogers work and called it there own?