Posts tagged with “stm32”

Casually put together a small but rather fun project. I got curious about how much power my DIY gadgets actually consume—and at the same time, I wanted to check the real capacity of those AliExpress batteries. Sure, you could use a multimeter, but then you’d have to rig up some janky setup to wedge it into a USB cable, plus keep unplugging it whenever you need it elsewhere. And devices with microcontrollers have fluctuating power draw depending on their operating mode. So I built myself a dedicated device.

I built an FM radio receiver. As usual, the goal was to “build something useful and learn something new along the way.” What made this project especially exciting was that it involved working with an STM32 microcontroller—something I hadn’t done before, even though I’ve had several dev boards and programmers lying around for years. I also really wanted to use the headphone wire as the antenna, just like in commercial devices.