It started with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgnM9-EEeA&t=227s

I was surfing YouTube under "embedded systems" when I found this guy. He was so much fun to listen to and I really wanted to play with what he was talking about. I got on my favorite tech buying website https://www.aliexpress.com/ and 10 of these were on their way in no time. Now for how to make them do something. Enter my friend Michael. He's an electronics student at my college and happened to have worked with these before. He gave me a ST-Link which allows for plugging these into a computer. Dear Nikolai Kondrashov from the video showed it just takes some persistence with reading through the documentation...all 2,000 pages. But who doesn't love a challenge?

With further digging, I learned these things come with their own Integrated Development Environment(IDE) called CUBE and support from the company.

CUBE can be downloaded from their website: https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en.html