One circuit a week Each week I will feature a circuit based on one or more of the electronic parts I have ordered then forgotten about over the years. Saturday, April 11, 2020 0000 0000 0010 1010 STM8 super cheap breakout board Late one night ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) I spotted a STM8S103F3P6 breakout board on Aliexpress that seemed too cheap to be real (~AU90 cents). So of course I ordered 5 of them. When they arrived I plugged them into my computer using a micro-usb adapter and ... nothing. So the price is now starting to make sense. The micro-usb connector is only for power, not data. Little board, lotsa power Still, there must be a way to talk to this chip, and at least get some quality blinky action going on. I happen to have an ST-Link programmer left over from an exploration of the famous STM32 " Blue Pill " from a year or so ago. After a bit of searching online, I was directed to SDuino which promised "within a few minutes you are ready to compile and upload your fir...
