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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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Is it OK to ask questions about "Arduino compatible" micros (not clones)?
There are many Arduino compatible micros and derivatives. I'm thinking specifically here of the Spark Core.
It's not a clone, but uses the Arduino Sketch language and is wi-fi IoT oriented.
Are ...
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What is the elevator pitch for Arduino.SE?
From The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta
Imagine you’ve just gotten on an elevator with a friendly stranger. You
have precisely one floor to describe your community to them. What
would ...
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When should questions be considered shopping recommendations?
I just found this question: Is there a color LCD display for an arduino? Should it be considered a shopping recommendation?
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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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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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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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How should board revisions be handled?
The boards undergo significant changes across revisions. Is there a need to create separate tags for the different revisions or should we just specify the revision in the question without having ...
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Why is Arduino.SE different? [EE.SE redux]
I realize this has been discussed in the Area 51 proposal and in the old site before it died, but I think that it would be a good idea to set this straight on Meta for the future's sake, so we have a ...
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Using board names as tags
Given that the site's focus area is Arduino, creating tags such arduino-uno does not seem to me, as ideal. I think that just the board name without Arduino prefixed to it is sufficient, as the Arduino ...
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Halp! The favicon is faceless!
I have a Retina display, and the favicon is faceless, plain, and depressing everywhere I go. Can we please fix this?
Easy Repro Steps:
Open Chrome (haven't tested it on anything else)
Zoom in (...
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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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