Having a high level api kind of blocks you from the low level register sets. Other than that, the kit has been perfect for me. Some kits offer CCS free when you connect the kit in. The programming environment I use is Code Composer Studio. You can download the software and be blinking an LED/USB/PWM within 15 minutes using their APIs. They have a software suite - Stellarisware which is tailored for all their kits and one of the best in the market. I have been using a Stellaris Microcontroller Kit from TI - LM3S9B92. I don't want a toy system, but fiddling with register values to activate some function may be a bit too much for me right now.Īre there maybe older uC (boards) with maybe more mature software support then the relatively new STM32F4? So the question is, is an STM32F4 to hard to get used to if you never had a uC before? The arduino is much too limited for me, thats why I got the STM. I want to control a few PWMs and read a few A/Ds and control that via USB. I tried several other things like libopencm3, chibios and even some weired code by dasLabor. I got the summon-arm toolchain installed easily on linux, I got stlink working without a problem, but I didn't manage to configure eclipse to work with the ST Library. I have a strong background in math and programming and I'm usually pretty good at figuring things out, but that nut is hard to crack for me.
For the money I payed (13€) it was definitely worth it, but I find it quite hard to program. I have an STM32F4 Discover for about a month now, its the first microcontroller I ever used and I started to wonder if it was a good choice.
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