3D_Printer

Project of fully functional 3D Printer in C language on STM32 Nucleo-F303RE board.

Basic Informations

• Code is written without attachments to any IDE (VSCode will be supported)

Software installation

Right now the only Fully supported platform is Windows & WSL.

Installation steps:

1. WSL installation:

The entire WSL installation process is described in the links below (WSL2 recommended):

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#manual-installation-steps
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual

The second option is use of powershell script from below repository (read license before use):

• https://github.com/zxvcv/WinLibManagement/blob/main/src/Setup-WSL.ps1

2. Linux packages installation on WSL:

Packages necessary for build:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi

Additionally packages necessary for UnitTests:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential

3. Software for board flashing (optionally):

To flash the board on Windowns & WSL we need to install STM32 ST-LINK Utility:

• https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stsw-link004.html

4. VSCode (optionally):

Recommended by me way to install VSCode and any other software on windows system is by using choco package manager.

• https://chocolatey.org/install

After choco installation you can install VSCode in Unix-like way from PowerShell:

choco install vscode

Extensions for VSCode to install:

Remote - WSL
CMake           (inside WSL)
CMake Tools     (inside WSL)
Cortex-Debug    (inside WSL, optionally for debugging)

If you want to use flashing board from VSCode, step 3 is necessary to continue.

Update path to ST-LINK_CLI.exe in VSCode falsh task inside .vscode/tasks.json (update "command" field with your absolute path to ST-LINK_CLI.exe file).

Application build

Command line (cwd: \<main project folder>):

mkdir bld
cd bld
cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../arm-none-eabi-gcc.cmake ..
make

VSCode:

<Ctrl+Shift+B>
select: <build>
select: <Continue without scanning the task output>

UnitTests build and run

Before first run of the UnitTests, download googletest framework (cwd: \<main project folder>/UnitTests):

git clone https://github.com/google/googletest.git

Command line (cwd: \<main project folder>/UnitTests):

mkdir bld
cd bld
cmake ..
make
ctest

VSCode:

<Ctrl+Shift+B>
select: <UT_build>
select: <Continue without scanning the task output>

Flashing

Command line:

For flashing there is prepared script in PowerShell in tools/flashing/Flash-Board.ps1

VSCode:

<Ctrl+Shift+B>
select: <flash>
select: <Continue without scanning the task output>