@W5VO I would be very excited to have some others that are actively helping. I have had no time to do the other things that I would like to.
I am not happy that one person is running on the ticket of, "We should allow people to ask questions about sourcing parts."
:924501, It really was bad, there was a month where daniel was gone, I did not know he was on vacation that I was the only person whom took moderator action.
@reemrevnivek, I am hoping you make it, you do an excellent job of handling the meta site and I think you would do well at that.
Honestly, the only issue I have with the election is that we might get a mod that things we should full scale allow shopping advice.
@NickT haha
@NickT Do you see my issue?
This is something that @reemrevnivek at one point had a habit of doing, Just because it could fit does not mean it should
@reemrevnivek, do not take that wrong, you have not done this in a while and in the case of your post on meta I think you have 180ed and are thinking through implications quite well.
So now letting in IDE questions will result in us getting hit by consumer electronics questions?
:P
consumer electronics I'm more than happy to keep well away for a variety of reasons, but I'd think that questions about IDEs that deal with embedded targets would be a strong-suit of our community
I am using the same logic to apply to other things. I clearly understood that the reason the programming will not come over is because it has a good home
but consumer electronics needs a home, and we are technical
Do you see the train of thought. Just because it needs a home does not mean we should give it one
Answering a large number of questions very specific to IDEs @NickT will never end, especially when you add versions of IDEs. Do you want us to be the go to source for IDE questions also?
@NickT, grabbing my lunch, be back soon to discuss
@NickT, on that note, please do not mistake me, I am purely using things like consumer electronics as an example of where I feel that logic leads and intern an example of the flaw to said logic. It is an opinion, and I am still open to discussion. I was also worried you might vote for me and wanted to seal the deal.
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No, I just don't see the harm in accepting IDE questions that are specifically relevant to micro programming, I can't imagine it would be a slippery-slope where there would be some huge rash of them
what's the difference between that and coding questions?
@NickT I was saying that the question seemed to be a, i have a working IDE, but I was to use it on MAC, how/what do I do to do this?
@NickT Which is a step further away.
@NickT fixed.
@NickT When asking how to accomplish a specific task you can be taught, the IDE questions could be updated infinitely per IDE, per version. you could make the same argument for coding, but I think the same questions twice with coding and a lightly different version of a pic would be closed as duplicate also.
It is messy, but in my mind coding firmware and playing with an IDE are two separate topics.
How can I start PIC Microcontroller Programming on Mac OS X. Can I use an Arduino connected to my Mac has a programmer? Or do I need to buy specific programmer board and serial adapters?
Cheers,
Marcus
If I understand the voting algorithm properly your first vote carries a weight. If that person is elected it determines how many excess voting points made it. They then take your percentage of the overflow and pass it on to your second vote. rinse and repeat. very interesting. So if you had three distinct thought groups they could all successfully elect one person and not have enough leftover for a second from any as they each elected their first.
very intersting.
Reminds me of the second runner for president getting vice president. Seems like for a bit not much would get done....
That was by Marcus, who hasn't been around since the Chiphacker days. Chiphacker was fun, but I think we should take the good awhile carefully weeding out the bad. Remember that Marcus, who used to be *the* admin of Chiphacker, was CEO of a hobbyist electronics vendor. That colored the site with a beginner/hobbyist tone, IIRC.
@NickT - The link over 'resistor' points at the website of the company where this guy works in sales. [See linkedin profile here.](http://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-enmore/1b/b8/766). This is blatant spam, but I'm not sure how to proceed. He's a brand new user, so should I edit the question and point him at the relevant policy? Or do we just flag the answer and throw it out?
Yup, that was a few months ago. We used to be affiliated with littlebird electronics, but we've now joined Stack Exchange (think Stack Overflow) and we've just recently graduated from the beta stage.
Well, there was an independent site called electronics.stackexchange with very low traffic. That site, and all its content and users, was deleted. Marcus had the option of moving to an open-source version of the Stack Overflow platform, but chose to give the site to Stack Exchange. Since then, we've more than doubled our user base and even more increased our traffic levels.
Launched Q&A site for electronics hardware hacking enthusiasts - topics that include electronics, physical computing, and even those working with an Arduino.
Yup, that's definitely a problem. If you see one, feel free to bring it here, to the Meta site (meta.electronics.stackexchange.com), or just click the "flag" link and someone will take a look at it.
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The official statement is here:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/
Questions of the form "What should I look for in a X?" seem more useful and timeless compared to Q&As that will be pointless next year, but on the other hand there doesn't seem to be a good...
It seems that the reasons available for closing a question are ill suited for closing bad shopping questions.
The currently available reasons are:
Why should this question be closed?
exact duplicate: This question covers exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic; i...
You linked to a search for all questions containing the word "Buy", and made the claim that those questions were like yours. That is incorrect. There is a difference between your question and the ones that are open.
As the blog post says, there are two types of shopping questions: Those that c...
I'm an electrical engineering student, and Electronics Design is, I hope, becoming a good place to get answers about expert questions encountered in electronics design.
I contribute not because I get paid, but because I like the site and want it to be better.
Oh, BTW, there's a moderator election going on right now: electronics.stackexchange.com/election I'm running, but you already know that I'll moderate in the opposite direction of the shopping questions you want. I hate to say it, but in the interest of being fair, Mark is probably your guy if you want shopping questions.
now it's just the friggin DAQ I'm using that's driving me nuts
it formats its 13 bit samples where bits [15:13] are 0, if [12] is 1 it's negative, 0 is positive, then [11:0] is the number that's positive or negative
Sounds like it's designed for FPGAs, not for microcontrollers. Something like the following should work, though I assume you've got it working already: `int16_t val = 0x1000 & input ? 0x0FFF & input : -1 * ( 0x0FFF & input ) ;`
Does anybody want a "Questions for moderator nominees" page like this one on Tex.SX?
Let's try to get this election finally started. If you have any questions you want to ask all the candidates (I hope there will be more soon!), please do so here, so that we can keep things organized.
@markrages, @NickT - Since there are three of us here, what do you think about starting a Meta post "Questions for nominees" like the TeX stackexchange one? Is it necessary?
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W5VO: One portion of electronics is identifying and acquiring parts. To
that end, price and availability are
important things for consideration.
However, this goes against the general
StackExchange philosophy, as shopping
advice is typically localized in time
(price can change, dis...
@W5VO Good question, and good job removing most of the bias from the question while still giving some context.
Some of those points echo more strongly with me, and the unanswered counter-arguments to the first and second sentences seem to carry more weight than the original points, but I'm not sure how it could be made more neutral without being context-free.
@reemrevnivek Personally, I'm on the fence. I learn about new parts that are useful to me on a regular basis - "Did you know that there's a part that does..." but I think people expecting us to be a better Digikey search is infuriating
So, when I tried to click to nominations page it actually went to the primaries page, which is why I never saw my comment I had been linked. No worries now. @reemrevnivek, Thank you for the feedback, I am running for election also and I am happy that one of the most active users of the site and how it runs was happy with what I did.
@reemrevnivek Let me know what you think of my response. I just added a bit of why I do what I do.
@W5VO I a ma strong supporter that good shopping questions are allowed, but someone saying, this 5 dollar part is too much, help. Is not good operations.
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I know how to work with AVRs on Windows but I want to know how to do this on my Mac. Can I use Xcode?
Why are you looking to lower the resistor value? Lowering the value may cause damage.
Hi ,
I wanted know what should be the optimum distance between a microntroller(AT89C51ED2) and a crystal of frequency 11.0592MHz?
Let's try to get this election finally started. If you have any questions you want to ask all the candidates (I hope there will be more soon!), please do so here, so that we can keep things organized.
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W5VO: One portion of electronics is identifying and acquiring parts. To
that end, price and availability are
important things for consideration.
However, this goes against the general
StackExchange philosophy, as shopping
advice is typically localized in time
(price can change, dis...
