Sliders_McGee

Software for the Sliders McGee project

Header Pinout

Bootloading Procedure

Setup:

Board unpowered and USB cable unplugged
Wire jumper between 3.3V header and pin 8 of input header (BL pin)

Procedure:

Connect USB cable to board and computer
Board will present itself as a mass storage drive
Drag and drop new firmware image onto drive
Wait aproximately 10s, no progress will be indicated
When bootloading is complete, board will launch application and drive will no longer be present on host computer
Removed wire jumper

Building This Project

Prerequisites

VSCode

STM32CubeCLT here

VSCode STM32 Extention

Once the prerequisites are installed, open VSCode and open the folder containing the project repo.

On the left side, click the STM32 extention and select "Import CMake project". In the dialog box that opens, select the project root foler and acept the dialog box.
CMake will do its CMake stuff and ask if the options are correct. The dafualts should be sufficient, click the bottom option to accept the parameters. Now you should see a build gear on the bottom toolbar with the text "Build".
Click the build button. The newly cloned repo will buuld without error and there will be a SW.hex file in the build folder.

Console

The console is used to set the maximum PWM values for each slider output and saving the values to non-volatile memory. Option selections are defined by [ ] around the expected input. Inputs not recognized are ignored. Esc is used to back out of a sub-menu without modifiying the value.

When first connecting, press enter to display the main menu. The current values are displayed next to the slider label.

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