Nucleo STM32F446RE and OV7670

After many hours of trial and failure I finally managed to get my OV7670 camera module to work properly with the Nucleo STM32F446RE board.

I will try to put together a longer article about some of the issues I encountered and how I solved them but for now the source code is available on GitHub.

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