A complete microcontroller development kit for little more than the cost of a bare chip?: seven dollars gets you not only a board-mounted 8-bit microcontroller with an decent range of GPIO pins and functions, but the USB programmer/debugger as well. The microcontroller is in a similar class as the ATmega328 chip on: an 8-bit 16 MHz core, 32K flash and 2K RAM, UART, SPI, I2C, 10-bit analog-to-digital inputs, timers and interrupts and all the usual goodness. The Discovery board features a small prototyping area and throws in a button for fun as well. The ST-LINK USB programmer/debugger comes attached, but it’s easy to crack one off and use this for future STMicro-compatible projects; clearly a plan of giving away the razor and selling the blades. The development tools are for Windows only, and novice programmers won’t get the same touchy-feely community of support that surrounds Arduino. But for cost-conscious hackers and for educators needing to equip a whole classroom (or if you’re just looking for a for your geeky nephew), it’s hard to argue with seven bucks for a full plug-and-play setup. [thanks Billy] • • • • Posted in Tagged,,,,,,, Post navigation.

• Grab the code sent to you there and try it out on your locked audio system. • Click on the generate option. It works, doesn’t it? • Wait for five to twenty minutes and then open your email account. Provide a valid email address which you will be required to open later.

I got mine and I am following the Help Home Page (tutorial) and get nothing but errors when I build. I’ve gone thru this twice. Here’s the error (sorry abt the format): ———– Project cosmic_by_lou – STM8 Cosmic – Configuration Debug ————- Compiling main.c cxstm8 -i”..

Download COSMIC STM8 32K C Compiler 4.3.13 from our website for free. This free software is an intellectual property of COSMIC Software. This PC software can be installed on 32-bit versions of Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10. All Cosmic C Cross Compilers for Windows include IDEA - Cosmic's own integrated development environment which is preconfigured for the STM8 family of processors. IDEA is designed specifically for developing embedded applications with Cosmic compilers.

Program files stmicroelectronics st_toolset stvd example tutorial_stm8 step1_setup src” +debug -pxp -no -l +mods0 -pp -i”C: Program Files COSMIC CXSTM8_16K Hstm8″ -clDebug -coDebug main.c #error cpstm8 C: Program Files COSMIC CXSTM8_16K Hstm8 mods0.h:0 FlexLM Invalid host main.c: The command: “cxstm8 -i”.. Program files stmicroelectronics st_toolset stvd example tutorial_stm8 step1_setup src” +debug -pxp -no -l +mods0 -pp -i”C: Program Files COSMIC CXSTM8_16K Hstm8″ -clDebug -coDebug main.c ” has failed, the returned value is: 1 exit code=1. Cosmic_by_lou.elf – 2 error(s), 0 warning(s). Bold font copy and paste.

With all the thanks and acknowledgments to hackaday.com for hosting this FIRST real thread on Discovery, it might be time that we move where other existing and potential users of this new toy (should) gravitate – ST’s discussion forum (at least, there ar no other places for now). I took a liberty (and time) to post my “Wish List” over there (), hope that people on this list that are NOT completelly thrown away by lack of UNIX support or dissaproval of anything that depends on Windows, or anything that goes back to Bill Gates in any form of fashion, will take a look, maybe even submit a comment or two. Looks to me that this platform, given support from ST, can move from a cool stuff worth spending $7 then never using it, to something worth considering. I got min the day after this post sample code works great, I haven’t done anything more then expanding the state machine for the LED flash but all the code looks goods I did go and download the actual libraries for the help file aka the only documentation on the libraries. This chip has 2 Uarts which is great.

My site has pictures and a video of the demo code running and I’ll be putting up much more of my work after finials are over. I am using cosmic BTW and it does take about a day to get the license so try and be patient. And on the subject of debugging I cannot say enough, it is by far one of the better debugging systems for a device and programmer for $7. Hey everyone, I’m a big fan of open source hardware movements like Arduino and its many spinoffs, but it is nice to see something this inexpensive coming from a supplier capable of mass producing it. I picked up one of these boards, but have yet to really do anything with it since there are so few examples and tutorials available. Scratching my own itch for a community for this thing, I’ve set up a StackExchange site for STM8S Q&A: ST’s forum seems to be geared more toward experts, so maybe we can use ThingsOpen.com to rally hobbyists and answer more fundamental questions. If the board and mcu are going to gain traction among hobbyists (today’s students, tomorrow’s purchase decision makers), it will need to be as easy to get into and as welcoming as Arduino.