Anyone using these microcontrollers?

[Louis Mamakos]

I'm using a Blue Pill board (well, a variation - a Maple Mini clone) and 
running Mecrisp FORTH on it.  You can see some info on a project I did 
to replace the ancient LCD 7-segment display on a Fluke 8050A DMM with a 
graphical LCD display, driven by the STM32F103 here: 
https://madnessinthedarkness.transsys.com/projects:fluke8050a:start  It 
decodes the digit drive signals to the old LCD display, as well as 
monitoring the state of the various range and mode switches.

You can, of course, also program them with an Arduino IDE.  However, 
being able to interactively bang away in FORTH was really quite nice for 
low-level hardware projects like this.

louie
wa3ymh


On 21 Oct 2017, at 19:37, Terry Fox wrote:

> There are probably several people on tacos using Arduinos and/or Pis 
> for various projects.  Are any of you using Teensy or Blue Pill 
> boards?  They are more powerful than the eight-bit Arduinos.  The 
> Teensy boards look really nice, but tend to be more expensive.  The 
> "Blue Pill" boards are as cheap as $2, and have a much faster 
> processor than an eight-bit Arduino, with much more memory and I/O as 
> well.  Both can use the Arduino IDE (with some mods).
>
> I have several of each, and am playing with them on various projects.
> 73, Terry, N4TLF
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