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Clarification on shopping questions

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Are questions about which microcontroller would be best for a specific use case considered shopping questions?

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As it stands, that would probably be off-topic here, even if the question comes with a very detailed specification. And even though picking one is quite qualified work that requires an experienced engineer.

At some point I meant to write a microcontroller selection Q&A but never got around to it... maybe we could post such a Q&A here at meta if nowhere else.

Otherwise there's a bunch of EE hanging out at the Stack Exchange chat room https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/15/electrical-engineering - it is probably the best place to ask such questions for now - I'd be happy to help out.

For general PCB reviews focusing on manufacturing and BoM improvements, such questions could be OK here though - see Are BOM cost optimization questions on-topic?

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There currently is a proposal for a Shopping community. Should electrical engineering related shoppin... (4 comments)
There currently is a proposal for a Shopping community. Should electrical engineering related shoppin...
Matthew‭ wrote 8 months ago

There currently is a proposal for a Shopping community. Should electrical engineering related shopping questions go on the shopping community or would it make more sense to dd a shopping category on the electrical engineering community?

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 8 months ago

This should be discussed in its own meta question.

Lundin‭ wrote 8 months ago

Matthew‭ Spontaneously it seems a bit far-fetched, since it is really quite a technical niche question.

Nick Alexeev‭ wrote 7 months ago

That's the question for the shopping community. If they say that microcontrollers is too technical for them, that has no bearing on EE. It's still off-topic for EE.Codidact .