Bluepill Page

Introduction

This page is for the STM32F103C8T6 or Bluepill

Counterfeit Pills

Most of the boards bought of Aliexpress are fake and as such have issues. The ST-Link v2 appears to have issues.

Arduino IDE

To get these to work in Arduino I needed to follow the guides which refer to using

   https://dan.drown.org/stm32duino/package_STM32duino_index.json

This is added to the Additional Board Manager URL and allows you to use Generic STM32F103C6/fake STM32F103C8

Rust

Took a while to get this going. It is quite easy once you know.

Code

//! Blinks an LED
//!
//! This assumes that a LED is connected to pc13 as is the case on the blue pill board.
//!
//! Note: Without additional hardware, PC13 should not be used to drive an LED, see page 5.1.2 of
//! the reference manual for an explanation. This is not an issue on the blue pill.

#![deny(unsafe_code)]
#![no_std]
#![no_main]

use panic_halt as _;

use nb::block;

use cortex_m_rt::entry;
use stm32f1xx_hal::{pac, prelude::*, timer::Timer};

#[entry]
fn main() -> ! {
    // Get access to the core peripherals from the cortex-m crate
    let cp = cortex_m::Peripherals::take().unwrap();
    // Get access to the device specific peripherals from the peripheral access crate
    let dp = pac::Peripherals::take().unwrap();

    // Take ownership over the raw flash and rcc devices and convert them into the corresponding
    // HAL structs
    let mut flash = dp.FLASH.constrain();
    let rcc = dp.RCC.constrain();

    // Freeze the configuration of all the clocks in the system and store the frozen frequencies in
    // `clocks`
    let clocks = rcc.cfgr.freeze(&mut flash.acr);

    // Acquire the GPIOC peripheral
    let mut gpioc = dp.GPIOC.split();

    // Configure gpio C pin 13 as a push-pull output. The `crh` register is passed to the function
    // in order to configure the port. For pins 0-7, crl should be passed instead.
    let mut led = gpioc.pc13.into_push_pull_output(&mut gpioc.crh);
    // Configure the syst timer to trigger an update every second
    let mut timer = Timer::syst(cp.SYST, &clocks).counter_hz();
    timer.start(1.Hz()).unwrap();

    // Wait for the timer to trigger an update and change the state of the LED
    loop {
        block!(timer.wait()).unwrap();
        block!(timer.wait()).unwrap();
        block!(timer.wait()).unwrap();
        led.set_high();
        block!(timer.wait()).unwrap();
        led.set_low();
    }
}