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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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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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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 ...
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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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Could we get a more interesting favicon?

Some SE sites in beta have slightly customized favicons. They are motifs instead of letters, like for example Poker and Chess. I think 'AR' doesn't really relate to the site. Could it be changed to ...
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Questions with good answers but none accepted

Many times questions get answered and answered well, but for whatever reason (lack of intelligence, age, language, understanding of how the site works, etc), an answer never gets accepted as the ...
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Lots of abandoned (and/or unanswered) questions

Would it be possible to delete questions that have no reply from the OP at least a few months or user is inactive and there are no good and useful answers. There are quite a lot of questions that ...
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Can we have a "OP does not respond to queries" close reason?

Example question: Unexpected Timer Conflicts (Uno) Marked as unanswered. However a reply (later converted to a comment) asking for more information has been completely ignored. How can this ever be ...
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Should Arduino SE get a documentation section?

Arduino, along with a couple of other subjects, are quite precise. I mean, all programming questions mostly consern the Arduino IDE and I find that the Arduino.cc's tutorial section rubish. After ...
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Extra tag that would be great if were included

I have recently posted about using a 2-Wire speaker with Arduino Esplora, however I couldn't tag it correctly because there was no arduino-esplora tag. The Esplora tag would be very useful in case ...
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Wire tag vs. wires tag

Wire is useful. "Wires" as a tag is not. I've edited the question that has wires and removed it (admittedly its replacement, wiring, is almost as bad a choice) but I still can't attach wire to a ...
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Is dark mode coming for Arduino SE?

Stack Overflow has a setting in the preferences for Light/Dark mode for quite some time now. I would like to also have a dark mode in Arduino SE. I don't know how such things are handled in the Stack ...
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As we get more advanced in our use of Arduinos in ever more complex ways, it would be good if the Arduino SE supported Tex [duplicate]

One user was kind enough to send me the list of SE sites that support MathJax (LaTex), and I see Arduino is not among them. This means that when I learn something relevant on EE SE and want to use ...
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Documentation for Arduino SE

Here is a question that is already asked with a similar intension. But i am trying to be more specific. Let me explain how my question is different. Even-though they are towards the same goal, the ...
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Encouraging Better Questions: Adding Specific Points to "How to Ask" Box

Our current "How to ask" box reads: How To Ask Is your question about Arduino? We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed. Provide details. Share your research. If your ...
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How to contribute information (we need a FAQ or wiki)

By accident I found this excelent post by Edgar Bonet, How can I handle the millis() rollover?. That is not exactly a question, rather a tutorial in a question/answer format (his words). This ...
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Let's customize our tour section!

The Arduino Stack Exchange Tour Page There are a few fields that we can update and change in that page. Here are the things we can change: 1.) Arduino Stack Exchange is a question and answer site ...
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We need a way to create symbols in the Arduino meta [duplicate]

I posted a question to the EE stack Exchange on how to put a horizontal bar above a character. The answer I got was to use MathJax, which I had never heard of. The markup in that post works ...
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Can you use Circuit lab in the Arduino forum [duplicate]

The Electronics Stack Exchange has a built-in button to a free version of Circuit lab. It's not a bad little tool for creating simple circuit diagrams. I don't see a way to do that in the Arduino ...
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Pinned post in the Arduino forum?

I've been browsing the Arduino forums for years. I have no idea why I find it so fun, but after all this time, I see the same frikin problem over and over with posts! People never include schematics/...
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Add all board types to the Arduino Stack Exchange site as tags

I often have questions about the MKR GSM 1400 which I post on the Arduino Stack Exchange site. But unfortunately the closest tag for this is the MKR1000. Which is pretty similar, but not the same at ...
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Request to create the arduino-create tag

I've never requested a new tag before. I have a question about the Arduino Create site but there's no tag for it yet. It would be great if a tag like arduino-create or create could be made for ...
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Any answer to a question automatically upvotes said question - FEATURE-REQUEST

I find it contradictory to the concept of upvoting that someone finds a question worthy of an answer, yet unworthy of an upvote. I get the impression that it is a bit egotistical to not even care ...
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Moderator abuses, a case study. Why to introduce the "power of recall" on SE network

Final note: The meta.meta.se new question has been deleted again while in the works by user animuson. Enough. Your question was closed because you're rambling on about a process that already ...
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