[sdiy] Microcontrollers, development environments and hardware programmer recommendations.

[Vladimir Pantelic]

On 22.10.2016 15:20, Gordonjcp wrote:

> a couple of UARTs, and a USB port for about two quid.  You'll need a
> programmer, but just buy one of the STM32 Discovery boards which will have an
> ST-Link programmer (bog standard SWD, as far as I can tell) built in which
> can be jumpered either to the target on board or a 4-pin header for your
> device.  They're about a tenner.

or get one of the Chinese ST-Link clones that are all over Ebay for a fiver. 
sadly, like the "Discovery" boards, they are ST-Link v2.0 only so you miss the 
USB UART that ST-Link V2.1 exposes, as seen e.g. on the Nucleos. Also on the 
Nucleo board you can cut-off the ST-LINK part and use that as a compact programmer:

https://goo.gl/QEmTRB