STM32 Overview, Families, Documentation and Dev boards and Tools – STM32 Tutorial #1 Remake 2026

Getting started with STM32 can be a daunting task. There is a lot of different MCU’s, development boards and documentation. A rather long introduction to STM32 – providing an overview, explaining the families with focus on where to find documentation and finally a brief mention of the various development boards.

Arduino users interested in moving to STM32 should watch this video to the end.

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STM32 page on STM32World wiki: https://stm32world.com/wiki/STM32

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00:00 Intro and recap
02:27 What is STM32 – search on Google
04:13 The STM32 Family and products
05:05 1631 different STM32 MCUs
06:00 Understanding the part numbers
07:02 The product type
10:54 Feature code
11:52 The pin count code
13:39 The Flash size (max code size)
14:50 The package type
15:30 Temperature range
16:48 Development boards – the one NOT TO GET – NOT EVER!
20:15 What should you get – the Black Pill STM32F411 version
22:45 Getting some sort of ST-Link flasher/debugger
24:27 The CurrentMakers Jolt Connect
27:20 The CurrentMakers Streamline series
30:11 STMicroelectronics Nucleo Boards
33:25 The STM32 documentation!
34:02 The official documentation index on STM32World
35:10 The STM32F411 datasheet
46:37 The STM32F411 reference manual
47:38 Cross family documents
50:00 The development tools – STM32CubeIDE – toolchains
54:53 Downloading STM32CubeMX (not separate from STM32CubeIDE and there are two of them!!!)
57:19 The Open Source STLink tools (not essential but convenient)
59:04 Final thoughts and outtro

Corrections:
28:40 Ooops – I forgot to minimize myself – apologies 😉