The purpose of this software is to create an interactive chess-board, that contains LEDs and reed-relays for every field. An STM8S105 with a dedicated chess-board handles all logic. Via the UART, a move can be entered.
- Cosmic STM8 compiler. A license can be obtained free of charge from Cosmic-software.com. Install this first.
- ST Visual Develop (STVD). This can be obtained free of charge from st.com
- A coloured ST-Link V2 USB adapter (which are very cheap to find on ebay)
In order to program this thing, you can't have a code-size limit of 8 Kbytes, so IAR will not do the job. Fortunately, the Cosmic STM8 development environment (IdeaSTM8) has been made available free-of-charge. Just register and download and you have a development environment that nicely supports this device.
To be defined.
To be defined.
Here's schematics version 01 of the PCB Hardware.
Eagle schematics v01 of the Chess board
PCB version 01 (made by allpcb.com)