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Instructables Contest Prizes are Real

Instructables team members canida, randofo, and I just finished mailing out all the contest prizes last week. We had been waiting for some shirts to get back to us from the screen printer and they...

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Top 8 instructables to avoid working on a Monday

"Americans hate their jobs more than ever before in the past 20 years, with fewer than half saying they are satisfied.The trend is strongest among workers under the age of 25, less than 39 percent of...

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iRobot Scholarship Judging

No, this isn't the much awaited results of the iRobot Scholarship contest, it's just a calming, soothing message from Instructables HQ. The deadline for the iRobot Scholarship submissions has passed...

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Using a coupon to claim a prize

If you should ever get a prize from instructables.com we will contact you via a private message with a link to a website to go to and a coupon code that you can use to claim your prize. Some people who...

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Instructables Now Has a Store!

Always wanted an Instructables t-shirt, patch or sticker and didn't know how you could get your hands on one? Now you can buy one at the brand new Instructables Store!We are currently selling...

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Halloween Contest Entries on YouTube Group 2

You can enter your youtube videos in the DIY Halloween Contest. Just add them to the DIY Halloween Contest Group. This is group 2 of the videos that we have received so far. I'll add more groups as...

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Halloween Contest Entries on YouTube Group 1

You can enter your youtube videos in the DIY Halloween Contest. Just add them to the DIY Halloween Contest Group. Here are some of the videos that we have received so far.Pumpkin Carving Robot...

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YouTube DIY Video Challenge

We just got news from our friends at YouTube saying that they are having a DIY Holiday Video Extravagazna right now. Todd Oldham has a video on the homepage requesting HowTo videos from the community....

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Hot Sauce Beer

Hot Sauce Beer wasn't quite right for a slideshow, but I am hoping that it will really find its' stride in the forums.Despite what you may think, this is a good idea, and it's actually pretty tasty....

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Robots Are Art Show

In the Bay Area and like robots? Check out the Robots Are Art show!The opening for this event has already passed, but you can still catch the show for another two weeks.The Float CenterPhone:...

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Handmade Market Chicago

If you are in Chicago and are looking to pick up a late Holiday gift you can check out the Handmade MarketNext event:Saturday, January 12th, 2008noon to 4:30 pm. Free.Handmade Market is the second...

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Instructables Gets an Embroidering Machine

We borrowed an embroidering machine from Craft Magazine for a few days so that we could finish up the prizes for our Fake It Don't Make It Contest. Matt got it set up today and we finished our first...

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Happenings 1/10/08

There are some cool events happening in the Bay Area right now. Today we are highlighting hot dogs and re-purposed trash, but there is always plenty to go out do.Frankenart Drop-in Arterrarium Tonight...

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Hot Couture: A Fusion of Fashion and Fire

The Crucible is having their annual Hot Couture: A Fusion of Fire & Fashion festival.It's a conflagration on the hottest catwalk in the Bay Area, with fabulous fashionistas, flaming dancers,...

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Instructables Stickers in Taiwan

A few months ago Instructables user Cousin Steve contacted us about printing up some Instructables stickers to hand out at a DIY event in Taiwan. We thought this was a great idea so I sent Cousin Steve...

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Ask a Scientist Special Event: Phat Tuesday Physics Circus

Come join ringmaster Zeke Kossover and his crew of sensational sideshow scientists as they (and YOU) perform dazzling demonstrations that illustrate physical principles! Watch, and listen, as sound...

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Amazing Family of DIY Pirates Cross Atlantic Ocean in Raft Made from Garbage!

This is actually old news at this point, but it's so awesome that I think it deserves some attention on Instructables. A unique family called the Neutrinos built a raft from garbage and scraps found on...

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Floating Garbage Island Twice the Size of Texas Aimlessly Spins in Pacific Ocean

The largest dump in the world isn't outside New York or London or Shanghai but in a desolate stretch of the Pacific Ocean nearly a thousand miles from the nearest island. Held together by a slowly...

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Giant Robot Architecture Talk by Greg Lynn in Berkeley

Here is an interesting talk from the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the Berkeley Center for New Media...Giant Robot ArchitectureGreg Lynn, UCLA & Angewandte, ViennaMonday, Feb 4,...

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Device Worn on Tongue Allows the Blind to See

For the past 10 years researchers at the University of Wisconsin have been working on making a device that delivers censorial input to the tongue via a matrix of electrodes worn inside the mouth. Using...

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Ask a Scientist [topic: ancient science]

Topic: The 2000-Year-Old Computer (and Other Achievements of Ancient Science)We learn in school that the science of our ancestors included such endearing bunk as flat planets, geocentric solar systems,...

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US Distributor of HB Electronic's LEDs - www.Buy-LEDs-Online.com

I just completed an order for a couple hundred LEDs and batteries that Instructables will be using at SXSW next week to make LED Floaties at PopSci's SXSW afterparty. I ordered them from...

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Night Photos of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch

Jonathan Haeber shot some inspiring night photos of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. Haeber gained access to Neverland somehow and shot many beautiful photos which are available on Flickr.Apparently...

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First Ever Stewart Coffin Puzzle Craft Contest

Attention all precision puzzle makers!Cubicdissection.com and Incra have teamed up to establish the first ever [http://www.cubicdissection.com/contest/contest.html" Stewart Coffin Puzzle Craft...

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Burning Questions Round 4 Winners Announced

Instructables is happy to announce the prizewinners fromBurning Questions Round 4!We had over 60 entries and 38 Burning Questions successfully answered!While user votes were taken into consideration,...

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Boston Zine Fair

Zines! Comics! Arts! Crafts!bostonzinefair.org The Boston Zine Fair is a weekend-long event with the aim of bringing together zinesters, artists, small presses and other producers of independent media....

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StreetWars

Trigger happy gamers have organized, broken through the digital/analog divide, and have begun to play "real" games!Contestants in the StreetWars tournament dart through New York's alleyways with water...

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Hands-on Weekend Algaculture Workshop

October 18-19, 2008@ The Algae Lab in Berkeley, CAalgaelab.org: a component of The Shipyard / All Power LabsIt's a fact. Food, fuel, fertilizer, fresh water, and arable land --all are running out. But...

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Applied Kinetic Arts Show

What: Applied Kinetic Arts Show mechanical/electrical/industrialWhen: Opening reception is Friday, November 21st, from 6-8pm. Normal gallery hours are M-F 1-5pm. Show runs November 21st through January...

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ITP Winter Show

The 2008 ITP Winter ShowFor those of you out there in New York, you may be interested to know that Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) is gearing up for their infamous Winter Show which will...

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Find out (exactly) where your steak comes from

My friend just forwarded me a link to the Bovine Myology and Muscle Profiling website. It's got a pretty impressive 3D visualizer for all the different layers of the cow flesh, an incredibly thorough...

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International Rubik's Cube Competition

http://www.exploratorium.edu/rubiks/ Sunday, January 18, 200910:00 AM - 4:30 PMThe Exploratorium in San Francisco, CAWatch some of the world's greatest Rubik's Cube puzzle-solvers compete before a live...

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DIYcity San Francisco

PariSoMa Coworking SpaceWednesday January 14, 2009 at 6:00pm1436 Howard StreetSan Francisco, California Get DirectionsTwitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps - we use these things more...

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Climate Change Recalculated Talk with Saul Griffith

"It is not accurate to say we can still stop climate change," says Saul Griffith, the Bay Area inventor who received a MacArthur "genius" award in 2007. "We are now working to stop worse climate change...

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Instructables Podcast Vol. 1 - Build a Greener Life: Robbtoberfest

Part of Instructables' mission is to inspire our community to create and share great projects. We do this though contests, theme months, and challenges that are seasonally appropriate, part of a bigger...

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Instructables Goes Indoor Skydiving

The Instructables team has been going strong for a while now - some of us have even been with the company for over two years! Eric took Rachel, Eric N and me to iFly, an indoor skydiving facility, as...

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NIMBY Party

NIMBY made it into their brand new 64,000 sq. ft. space and they're throwing a party!Live Music | Incredible Art | Giant Sculpture in a new space for the world famous NIMBY.WITH SPECIAL GUESTSBoy...

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40% Off: an art show for the new economy

Come on out to 40% Off: an art show for the new economy this Friday!New artwork from:Aaron GemanBen CowdenDaniel BenoitLuigi OldaniMitch HeinrichRandy SarafanNoah WeinsteinShelly CournoyerPlus, 40...

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Eyeborg: Filmaker plans to install camera in prosthetic eyeball

"Take a one eyed film maker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that's never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project. Rob Spence and Kosta Grammatis are trying to...

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Space Trash Crowds Orbiting Satellites

Two or three times a day, a satellite circling Earth narrowly misses destruction by an orbital hailstorm of junk sweeping the busy super highways of space.A spreading cloud of shrapnel from the...

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3-D Baseball Card Webcam System

In an effort to bring baseball card trading into the 21st century, and aid falling revenues, playing card manufacturer Topps developed an interactive 3-D baseball card experience using specialized...

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Designers Wanted: Join a Think-and-Make-Tank for Soul of Africa

Oxford University's Said Business School is running a sort of Peace Corps for designers. Writes Lucy Kimbell, Clark Fellow in Design Leadership: We need up to 10 designers who want to use their design...

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Handmade Nation Film

Buying local for many means buying handmade objects that are designed and fabricated with ingenuity, grit and love. Handmade Nation documents a movement of artists, crafters and designers that imbue...

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Octopus in a box

On March 5th at the New England Aquarium octopus exhibit, a 7-foot long giant Pacific octopus climbed inside of a 15 inch-inch-wide box. The box was part of a set of acrylic puzzles that the aquarium...

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Giant crane arrives to help build new bay bridge

A 328 foot crane built by ZPMC near Shanghei, China capable of lifting 1800 tons at a time was brought into the Port of Oakland two weeks ago aboard a partially submersible transport ship. It is the...

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(newsletter) Geiger Lamp, Homemade Paper, Viking Shoes...

Sign-up for this newsletter: Earthjustice United States of Efficiency Contest - Create an energy-saving Instructable and you could win a MacBook Pro! April Fools Contest - Share your best pranks,...

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(newsletter) Chocolate Painting, Redirect a Light Switch, Car Dash Camera Mount

Sign-up for this newsletter: Earthjustice United States of Efficiency Contest - Create an energy-saving Instructable and you could win a MacBook Pro! April Fools Contest - Share your best pranks,...

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Instructables Pizza Off 2008

I turned 25 this past week and celebrated my Birthday by organizing something that I've wanted to do for a long long time - a Pizza Off! A Pizza Off is an event where the participants order as many...

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Virus Problem **Updated Topic - 1/12/2010**

This is the official forum post for the virus problems some users are experiencing with our ad networks.  From now on please post all virus reports here. One or more of the ad networks that serve...

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Official Instructables Logos

Here are a few editable files of the Instructables logos and the Instructables Robot.  If you'd like to use them off of our site, please email service at instructables dot com to ask permission.  Too...

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