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How do I describe or draw my circuit in such a way that everybody understands what I am building?
How do I describe or draw my circuit in such a way that everybody understands what I am building? On EE.SE there is this circuit editor available to quickly draw a circuit, I'd propose to have that ...
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What went wrong the last time, and how can we avoid the same mistakes?
This was the the closing announcement from the previous incarnation of Arduino:
The future of Arduino on Stack Exchange
After a week and a half in private beta, Arduino Stack Exchange has
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Congratulations, Arduino SE is graduating!
It's been a long road (over 1200 days, and that's just counting this most recent attempt at building an Arduino community), but I have good news:
Arduino Stack Exchange is graduating!
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Vote Early, Vote Often!
This is an observation based on mine and others' experiences across Stack Exchange.
We should vote positively as often as possible! Also, we should encourage others to do the same!
Every Stack ...
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Is there an easy way to enter formulas in questions?
I know math is not everybody's favorite, but sometimes you just don't get away without when designing a circuit for Arduino. MathJax is enabled on EE.SE; can we have that here too?
There are not ...
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Congratulations to Majenko on reaching 20k+ rep!
Our Arduino Stack Exchange site is humming along nicely, and it is appropriate here to congratulate Majenko for being the first to reach 20k rep.
Well done.
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Are clone-specific questions on topic for this site?
There are a lot of different Arduino clones of varying quality on the market. Obviously they are mostly equivalent to the standard ones, so hopefully the majority of questions should be widely ...
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Close reason: shopping questions
Can we get the commonly used close reason of "shopping questions not allowed" added?
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because questions seeking recommendations for specific products or ...
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When should an Arduino programming question be moved to Stack Overflow?
Programming is obviously a major part of using an Arduino, and a considerable amount of it is very domain specific (e.g. using particular libraries, or working with particular hardware).
However, I ...
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Which tags need to be cleaned up?
The initial days of beta can be a little awkward for tags. This post is meant to be a community-wiki style list of tags that need to be cleaned up for cases where users (like me) don't have sufficient ...
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New site design launched
As you can see, the new site design just went live! At this point, we are done with major revisions to the design (although you can still report CSS/styling bugs by starting a new post and tagging it ...
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Please welcome your new pro tem mods!
As I mentioned in the Jan 2016 beta progress report, one of your moderators asked me about stepping down a little while ago because things were getting busier in his life outside of Arduino SE. ...
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How do we get syntax highlighting?
I was adding some code to a question, and noticed that I couldn't get syntax highlighting to work. I added a language hint as is used on Stack Overflow, but it had no effect.
I appreciate that most ...
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Why isn't our Twitter account tweeting?
So we have a Twitter account, @StackArduino. However, it hasn't tweeted, has no profile picture, and isn't linked to anywhere. Why is this, and can the account be "activated"?
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How to write a good answer for Arduino Stack Exchange
How to write a good answer
Some new users on Stack Exchange may find the system of flagging, voting and commenting a bit difficult to follow, or frustrating, even.
This post is intended as a guide ...