Instructables: a gathering place for life hackers, inventors and DIY

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Information about those times, when every thing concealed the imprint of the Master who made it, today can only be found in history textbooks. Now all the objects around us are made in large quantities in factories and are becoming more soulless and disposable.

But apparently there is in a person some kind of natural passion for "real" things, otherwise how can one explain the increasing popularity of various hand-made and other handicrafts. If you, too, are sometimes eaten by the desire to do something with your own hands, for example, fix a broken thing, glue and launch a kite or even a space rocket, arrange a crazy chemical experiment in the kitchen, then you should definitely know about Instructables.

Instructables is one of the largest DIY websites on the web. It brings together a huge number of users who know, can and want to do something with their own hands. The main content of the site consists of step-by-step instructions uploaded by users that allow you to complete a particular job, experience or subject. Among them there are both texts with pictures and detailed video instructions, but the main thing is that they are all understandable and can be repeated by you.

I could not find out exactly how many instructions are contained on Instructables, but it is clear that there are many, many thousands of them. There are absolutely simple ones, like baking recipes and ways to clean the screen of a mobile phone, there are technically complex ones that require a lot of materials and tools, there are completely insane ones, by doing which you will definitely gain the glory of a “mad scientist”. Recently, there has even been a section for 3D printing enthusiasts, where happy owners of 3D printers share their best practices. Of course, all this wealth is neatly categorized and indexed, so as soon as you enter a topic of interest in the search bar, dozens and hundreds of different manuals will fall on you.

For those users who are comfortable using mobile devices to access the Instructables catalog, there are corresponding clients for Android and iPhone. In terms of their functions, they are basically identical to the capabilities of a web service, but they can be more convenient in cases when you want to use manuals on the go, in the workshop or in the field.

Summing up, I want to note that the site Instructables - this is one of the few places on the network where you will find full understanding and support for your plans to build a small submarine from empty bottles, assemble a fusion reactor in the kitchen, or simply fix a bicycle with your own hands. Yes, let them be called eccentrics and madmen, but you and I know who is really right.