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Paul has 20+ years of working as a digital electronics engineer and has strong software skills in assembly and C for embedded systems. Currently developing embedded electronics for thermal management control solutions for the air movement industry (HVAC & RAC).




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  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Hello Julan.

     

    There are several discovery kits - the one you refer to uses the low power version of the STM32 ARM range. It should work OK as a stnad alone controller but is not ideal for a PC interface since the USB port is only used for the debugging interface. This means you will need to add your own hardware to talk to a PC.

    There are other simple boards about which would allow you to interface with the PC without any hardware development - without knowing more about exactly what you want to do yourself it's hard to advise but I suggest you look at the Microchip DM240311 (Farnell 1761254 £39.20) which has options for RS232 for a simple PC interface. There is also on board temperature sensing but with the possibility of talking to the DS18B20 (not my first choice of temperature sensor due to it's awkaward 1 wire interface). You may need to solder some parts to the Microchip board to get the RS232 interface operational but at least the baord is done.

     

    Michael Kellett