VESC firmware

An open source motor controller firmware.

This is the source code for the VESC DC/BLDC/FOC controller. Read more at
https://vesc-project.com/

Supported boards

This fork of VESC firmware is intended to be used with SmoothieDrive ESC hardware.

On an Ubuntu machine, install the gcc-arm-embedded toolchain

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-gcc-arm-embedded/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gcc-arm-embedded

Add udev rules to use the stlink v2 programmer without being root

wget vedder.se/Temp/49-stlinkv2.rules
sudo mv 49-stlinkv2.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo udevadm trigger

Build and flash the bootloader

Clone and build the firmware

git clone https://github.com/vedderb/bldc.git vesc_firmware
cd vesc_firmware
make

Flash it using an STLink SWD debugger

make upload

Head to the forums to get involved and improve this project.

The software is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.0