Debug I2C communication from MPU6050 to STM32F103C8T6 using Hantek 6022BE USB Oscilloscope

Today I wanted to talk about a video that inspired me by Joop Brokking
it’s a tutorial video about STM32F103C8T6 ARM STM32 Minimum System Development board known also as the Blue Pill and how to program it to use the MPU-6050 sensors board via I2C

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In this video Joop tested the i2c communication from the MPU-6050 sensors board to the STM32F103C8T6 ARM-M3 Micro controller

He used a real hardware Oscilloscope to test the signal
and show the errors and how to fix them

These hardware Oscilloscopes are very useful
but could also be quite expensive, especially for a beginner

So I thought why not replicate the hardware setup and try the same experiment with my Hantek 6022BE PC USB Digital portable Oscilloscope
And see how the single looks like or if it’s even capable measuring these kind of signals

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I have tested the 100KHz and 400KHz with no problem
You can see the clock signal and the data signal
As can be seen here it works great and it only costs around 70$

There are multiple ways to investigate the signal
and the software has some nice measuring capabilities

But of course it has less features than the hardware ones
and probably will not work at the higher scales of Mhz signals

I have also tried the same experiment with my USB 24MHz 8 Channel Logic Analyzer and the results were also great and this one only costs around 10$, but cannot debug analog signals only digital ones (i2c, spi, UART , etc...)

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To program the STM32 you will beed an FTDI programer connected to the STM32 B6 and B7

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Check out the full tutorial about programming the STM32F103C8T6 here

I2C test