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Hi there!

The on-topic page https://electrical.codidact.com/help/topics might need a bit of tweaking and discussion.

 I think it is important that such a page attempts to be as specific as possible early on, so I quite like it and agree with most stuff there. But a few other things might need to be addressed:

- "The physics behind how circuits and circuit components work" should probably be expanded to all physics involving electronic design - including things like magnetism, radio, optics etc etc. 

- Soldering, electronics assembly and ESD should explicitly be on-topic.

- Electronic component identification. Potential hot potato. A lot of people find this interesting - do we want this & to what extent? 

- Repair questions. Definitely a hot potato that probably calls for a discussion thread of it's own. This needs to be made either explicitly on-topic or off-topic. Should we allow them or not? If allowing them, we need rules. What's required from the OP other than the question being researched & answerable? Basic electronics knowledge? Basic tools like solder iron and multimeter? A scope? 

- Similar to repair questions: DIY questions where someone is trouble-shooting/fiddling with the household mains voltage or the electronics in their car etc. On-topic or off-topic?

- Electronics approval/certification/legislation (FCC/CE/UL etc approval) questions should probably be on-topic. Possibly also including electric environment questions such as climate testing, IP class, EX etc.

- General programming questions that are not unique to embedded systems should be off-topic.