Firmware development for the Arduino Nano (A000005, ATmega328P @ 16 MHz, 5 V) — its 30 KB usable flash, 2 KB SRAM, 1 KB EEPROM, 8-channel 10-bit ADC, six 8-bit PWM pins across three timers, UART shared with the USB-serial chip, I2C on A4/A5, SPI on D10–D13, sleep modes, and the Arduino AVR core + PlatformIO setup…
Firmware development for the Beetle — the CJMCU / DFRobot "Mini Arduino Leonardo" USB board (ATmega32U4 @ 16 MHz, 5 V, 21×28 mm, castellated pads) — its native USB (CDC serial + HID keyboard/mouse/joystick), Caterina bootloader and 1200 bps touch upload, ten exposed I/O pads, four PWM pins across Timer0/Timer1, five…
Firmware development for the 30-pin ESP32-WROOM-32 development board — the DOIT ESP32 DevKit V1 / ESP32 CH340 Type-C / NodeMCU-ESP32 30-pin form factor, 15 pins per side, CH340G or CP2102 USB-UART bridge, AMS1117 LDO, user LED on GPIO2. Use when working on a 30-pin ESP32 devkit (ESP32-D0WDQ6 / ESP32-D0WD-V3…
Firmware development for the 36-pin ESP32-WROOM-32 development board — the original DOIT ESP32 DevKit V1 with 18 pins per side, i.e. the 30-pin layout plus the six in-package flash pins (SD0 SD1 SD2 SD3 CMD CLK = GPIO6-11) broken out at the USB end, CH340G or CP2102 bridge, AMS1117 LDO, user LED on GPIO2, GPIO0 not on…
Firmware development for the 38-pin ESP32-WROOM-32 development board — Espressif ESP32-DevKitC V4, Ai-Thinker NodeMCU-32S, DOIT ESP32 DevKit V1 38-pin and their CH340/CP2102 clones, 19 pins per side, with GPIO0 and the six in-package flash pins (GPIO6-11, labelled D0 D1 D2 D3 CMD CLK or SD0-SD3) broken out. Use when…
Firmware development for the ESP32-C3 0.42" OLED board (ESP32-C3FH4, QFN32) — the ABRobot / 01Space "ESP32-C3-0.42LCD" mini board and its clones, sold as "ESP32-C3 SuperMini with OLED" and "ESP32 C3 OLED development board". Covers its 72x40 SSD1306 OLED on I2C, the single I2C bus, blue LED on GPIO8, BOOT button on…
Firmware development for the Waveshare ESP32-C6-LCD-1.47 board (ESP32-C6FH4, QFN32) — its 1.47" 172x320 ST7789 LCD, WS2812 RGB LED, microSD/TF slot, USB-Serial-JTAG console, Wi-Fi 6/BLE/802.15.4 radio, and the ESP-IDF + PlatformIO setup around them. Use when working on this board or the ESP32-C6-LCD-1.47-M variant…
Firmware development for the 40-pin ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 camera board — the Freenove ESP32-S3-WROOM (FNK0085) and the AliExpress "ESP32-S3 CAM" / "ESP32-S3-WROOM N16R8 CAM" clones that copy its header: 20 pins a side, a 24-pin DVP camera FPC connector for an OV2640/OV3660, an on-board microSD slot on the SDMMC bus, a…
Firmware development for the 30-pin NodeMCU ESP8266 devkit — NodeMCU DevKit V1.0 / Amica (CP2102) and LoLin NodeMCU V3 (CH340G), built on the Ai-Thinker ESP-12E or ESP-12F module (ESP8266EX, 4 MB flash), with PlatformIO and the Arduino ESP8266 core (board = nodemcuv2). Use when working on a NodeMCU, ESP-12E, ESP-12F…
Firmware development for the ProMicro nRF52840 (V1940) — the nice!nano v2 compatible clone also sold as SuperMini nRF52840, nRF52840 Pro Micro or nRFMicro (nRF52840 QIAA, Cortex-M4F @ 64 MHz, 1 MB flash / 256 KB RAM, BLE 5 + 802.15.4, native USB, Adafruit UF2 bootloader with SoftDevice S140). Covers the PlatformIO +…
Firmware development for the Raspberry Pi Pico (original, RP2040 — dual Cortex-M0+ @ 133 MHz, 264 KB SRAM, 2 MB QSPI flash) — its 26 exposed GPIO, 4-channel 12-bit ADC, 16-channel PWM, 2× UART/I2C/SPI, PIO state machines, USB 1.1 CDC, VSYS/VBUS/SMPS power wiring, and the PlatformIO + arduino-pico (earlephilhower)…
Firmware development for the WeAct Studio RP2350A Core Board (RP2350A — dual Cortex-M33 @ 150 MHz, 520 KB SRAM, 4 MB or 16 MB QSPI flash) in both of its revisions, RP2350AV10 and RP2350AV20 — the 40-pin Pico-2-shaped header, 3-or-4-channel 12-bit ADC, PWM, PIO, USB-C CDC, the V1.0 LDO vs V2.0 buck-boost power wiring…
Firmware development for the WeAct Studio "Black Pill" (STM32F411CEU6) and its clones such as the DFRobot DFR0864 — the 25 MHz HSE and 32.768 kHz LSE crystals, PC13 LED, K1 button, USB-C wired straight to USBOTGFS, ROM DFU flashing, the SPI-flash footprint, and the STM32Cube HAL + PlatformIO setup around them. Use…
Firmware development for the WeAct Studio MiniSTM32H7xx core board (STM32H750VBT6) — its 0.96" ST7735 TFT, DVP camera, QSPI/SPI flash, MicroSD, USB, and the STM32Cube HAL + PlatformIO setup around them. Use when working on this board or any STM32H750/H743 WeAct core board: project setup, platformio.ini, clock/PLL…
Firmware development for the ( ) — its , , , and the + setup around them. Use when working on this board or any : project setup, , clock configuration, pin mapping, peripheral bring-up, , flashing, or debugging why something on the board does not work.