Which board

[dasbrow]

What board do you recommend to follow the book completely through.

Thanks,
Dan

[dasbrow]

No recommendations? Will I be able to work through the book using the STM32F746-Discovery board?

[jano]

wow! that board has everything! a bit scare, from my point o view 😛
at first I though: ‘I should buy the ‘most simpler’ one’, then I go and brought the NucleoF091RC, but since this board is quite ‘new’ there is no much resources for a novice to grab some code here and there an play with it, bad decision. So I decided to spend another €14 and brought the Nucleo401RE which is far more common, many examples on Carmine’s book are designed for this board and seems like many people have it, hence, there is more code on the net to test and play with it! Also the DiscoveryF4, but I don’t own one of these.

I think you should be able to go trough the book with any of them, but the level of frustration will depend on your previous programming abilities, since my previous abilities was ‘Arduino level’ I prefer start with the most basic I can find 🙂

[Carmine Noviello]

Hi,
Sorry for late reply.

As said by jano, the F401RE probably is the most widespread Nucleo. For this reason, a lot of examples explained in the text are based on this board. However, all book examples are correctly tested on all sixteen Nucleo boards.

[dasbrow]

Thanks for both of your replies. I’ve ordered the f401re and will get it today.

As for the discovery stm32f746 – there is a lot on the board, I plan on growing into it as I learn from the less feature rich kits. I have the LCD working thanks to Carmine’s tutorial.

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