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Daily coverage of hardware projects that had no commercial reason to exist. Reliably the most inventive corner of the web.
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Build guides, repair databases and instruction sites for physical tasks. The internet at its most straightforwardly useful.
Thousands of free electronics tutorials with full wiring diagrams and working code. The gentlest on-ramp to microcontrollers there is.
Free woodworking plans with cut lists and costed materials, aimed squarely at people who own exactly one saw.
Every knot worth knowing, animated frame by frame so you can scrub back and forth until your hands finally get it.
Home repair guides with proper tool lists and honest time estimates, written for somebody already standing in front of the problem.
Free illustrated repair manuals for phones, laptops, cars and appliances, plus teardowns that name and shame every glued-in battery.
Step-by-step build guides for anything from a bookshelf to a plasma cutter, written by the people who actually made the thing.
Daily tips on doing ordinary things slightly better, running since 2005 and still occasionally genuinely surprising.
The maker movement's own magazine: projects, tool reviews and the long-running argument about what counts as making something.