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Requirements: USB cables need data transfer
I was getting started with the discovery book and still had two old unmarked Mini USB cables laying around. Unfortunately none of them were working. To be fair, I don't know too much about the USB standards, but one reason may be that these cables only support charging without data transfer. I think it would be good to mention this here, if people go out and buy new cables.
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- Two mini-B USB cables. One is required to make the STM32F3DISCOVERY board work. The other is only
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required if you have the Serial <-> USB module.
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required if you have the Serial <-> USB module. Make sure that the cables both
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support data transfer as some cables only support charging devices.
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<img title="mini-B USB cable" src="../assets/usb-cable.jpg">

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