This is a book about the STM32 family of 32-bit Flash microcontrollers from ST Microelectronics based on the ARM® Cortex®-M architecture. The book will guide you in a clear and practical way to this hardware platform and the official ST CubeHAL, showing its functionalities with a lot of examples and tutorials. The book assumes that you are totally new to this family of MCUs, and it will start showing how to setup a complete and totally free software tool-chain to build your STM32 based applications. The installation instructions will allow to setup a complete tool-chain on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

The book covers both hardware interfacing and software design. It is based around the Atmel AVR range of microcontrollers and the Bascom AVR cross compiler from MCS Electronics. This book started out as a collection of notes used in courses in electronics and microcontrollers for students. It has been put together in one book to encourage students to see their knowledge as something that does not exist as discreet and separate during their years at school but as a complete 4 year course. It is hoped it will benefit other beginners who want a gentle paced but comprehensive introduction to practical design of projects using microcontrollers.

Arduino, Teensy, and related microcontrollers provide a virtually limitless range of creative opportunities for musicians and hobbyists who are interested in exploring "do it yourself" technologies. Given the relative ease of use and low cost of the Arduino platform, electronic musicians can now envision new ways of synthesizing sounds and interacting with music-making software. In Arduino for Musicians, author and veteran music instructor Brent Edstrom opens the door to exciting and expressive instruments and control systems that respond to light, touch, pressure, breath, and other forms of real-time control. He provides a comprehensive guide to the underlying technologies enabling electronic musicians and technologists to tap into the vast creative potential of the platform.