STM32 F0 DISCOVERY

STM32 F0 DISCOVERY is a low-cost and easy-to-use development kit to quickly evaluate and start to develop with STM32 F0  microcontroller family. It is sold in a simple plastic package: there is no material to give protection against electrostatic discharge, no accessories like usb cable or user manual but only a prototype board to help you during applications development as you can see below:

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How to use EAGLE CAD to create your own open hardware Arduino’s shield

This Article has been published by Open Electronics: http://www.open-electronics.org/how-to-make-an-arduino-shield-with-eagle-cad-tutorial/

You can find the original italian version on Elettronica In N°164 (http://www.elettronicain.it/).

Special thanks to Boris Landoni, Open Electronics’ administrator.

There are many CAD developed to assist the electronic designers during drawing of PCBs and schematics; often they are integrated in complete suite to project, simulate and realize a whole electronic system. Besides the many commercial versions, there are also free CADs available. Today we’d like to analyze one of the most diffused and known software: Eaglecad (eagle does not mean the powerful bird but it is the acronym of Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor) made by Cadsoft, actually at version 6.4.0. We have chosen this one because, as you know as an Arduino’s fan, the official pcbs and schematic files of the boards are developed and available free of charge to everybody in Eaglecad format; you can find also a lot of libraries and circuits made by famous DIY website (Sparkfun for first) available for free. Continue reading →