---
title: "Arduino:  Getting Real Time Help"
description: "While the Arduino Project Team provides their (http://www.arduino.cc/forum), sometimes real-time help is just a bit better. When that is the case, I encourage you to visit the…"
canonical: "https://www.baldengineer.com/arduino-getting-real-time-help.html"
author: "James Lewis"
date: "2012-08-13T09:30:08Z"
lastmod: "2015-03-24T18:09:57Z"
image: "https://www.baldengineer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-08-12-at-9.03.39-PM.png"
categories: ["arduino","microcontrollers"]
tags: ["arduino-stuff","irc"]
---

# Arduino:  Getting Real Time Help

> Note: The IRC Channel (along with all of Freenode) got nuked.

While the Arduino Project Team provides their [official Arduino forums](http://www.arduino.cc/forum), sometimes real-time help is just a bit better.  When that is the case, I encourage you to visit the freenode.net IRC channel, #arduino.  While as of today it is not an official channel, there are a number of great people available to help.

You can find me under the nick "baldengineer", big surprise, I know.  Others like kline, Yoston and pwillard are also excellent people to ping with questions.