Reprogramming Without Soldering

Published on 2017-04-21 in Motor Shield Reprogramming.

Turns out that the procedure in the previous log can be greatly simplified. You don’t need an ST-Link programmer, and you don’t need to solder anything. Even if your shield is locked, you can unlock and program it with a simple serial adapter. Here is how.

First, clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/pbugalski/wemos_motor_shield
$ cd wemos_motor_shield

Make sure you have arm-none-eabi-gcc installed, and compile it:

$ make
arm-none-eabi-gcc -Wall -g -std=c99 -Os -mlittle-endian -mcpu=cortex-m0 -march=armv6-m -mthumb -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-Map=motor_shield.map -Iinc src/startup_stm32.s src/main.c src/user_i2c.c src/tb6612.c -o motor_shield.elf -Tstm32f030.ld
arm-none-eabi-objcopy -O binary motor_shield.elf motor_shield.bin
arm-none-eabi-size motor_shield.elf
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2032	   1084	   1056	   4172	   104c	motor_shield.elf

Now, make sure you have stm32flash utility installed. Short the RTS and the 3V pins on the shield together, like this:

And the connect the main pins of the shield to your USB2TTL as follows:GND ↔ GND

3V3 ↔ 3V3 (or VCC or whatever it is called on your USB2TTL)

D2 ↔ TX

D1 ↔ RX

and connect it to your computer. Now, see if you can communicate with the device:

$ stm32flash /dev/ttyUSB0
stm32flash 0.5

http://stm32flash.sourceforge.net/

Interface serial_posix: 57600 8E1
Version      : 0x31
Option 1     : 0x00
Option 2     : 0x00
Device ID    : 0x0444 (STM32F03xx4/6)
- RAM        : 4KiB  (2048b reserved by bootloader)
- Flash      : 32KiB (size first sector: 4x1024)
- Option RAM : 16b
- System RAM : 3KiB

Now, you can unlock your shield:

$ stm32flash /dev/ttyUSB0 -k
stm32flash 0.5

http://stm32flash.sourceforge.net/

Interface serial_posix: 57600 8E1
Version      : 0x31
Option 1     : 0x00
Option 2     : 0x00
Device ID    : 0x0444 (STM32F03xx4/6)
- RAM        : 4KiB  (2048b reserved by bootloader)
- Flash      : 32KiB (size first sector: 4x1024)
- Option RAM : 16b
- System RAM : 3KiB
Read-UnProtecting flash
Done.

$ stm32flash /dev/ttyUSB0 -u
stm32flash 0.5

http://stm32flash.sourceforge.net/

Interface serial_posix: 57600 8E1
Version      : 0x31
Option 1     : 0x00
Option 2     : 0x00
Device ID    : 0x0444 (STM32F03xx4/6)
- RAM        : 4KiB  (2048b reserved by bootloader)
- Flash      : 32KiB (size first sector: 4x1024)
- Option RAM : 16b
- System RAM : 3KiB
Write-unprotecting flash
Done.

And now you can flash it:

$ stm32flash /dev/ttyUSB0 -v -w motor_shield.bin
stm32flash 0.5

http://stm32flash.sourceforge.net/

Using Parser : Raw BINARY
Interface serial_posix: 57600 8E1
Version      : 0x31
Option 1     : 0x00
Option 2     : 0x00
Device ID    : 0x0444 (STM32F03xx4/6)
- RAM        : 4KiB  (2048b reserved by bootloader)
- Flash      : 32KiB (size first sector: 4x1024)
- Option RAM : 16b
- System RAM : 3KiB
Write to memory
Erasing memory
Wrote and verified address 0x08000c2c (100.00%) Done.

Then disconnect all the wires (including the RTS pin), connect the shield to your WeMos D1 Mini, and it should work.