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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleiRobot 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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleInstructables 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...
View ArticleHalloween 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...
View ArticleHalloween 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...
View ArticleYouTube 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....
View ArticleHot 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....
View ArticleRobots 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:...
View ArticleHandmade 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...
View ArticleInstructables 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...
View ArticleHappenings 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...
View ArticleHot 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,...
View ArticleInstructables 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...
View ArticleAsk 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...
View ArticleAmazing 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...
View ArticleFloating 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...
View ArticleGiant 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,...
View ArticleDevice 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...
View ArticleAsk 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,...
View ArticleUS 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...
View ArticleNight 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...
View ArticleFirst 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...
View ArticleBurning 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,...
View ArticleBoston 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....
View ArticleStreetWars
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...
View ArticleHands-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...
View ArticleApplied 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...
View ArticleITP 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...
View ArticleFind 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...
View ArticleInternational 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...
View ArticleDIYcity 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...
View ArticleClimate 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...
View ArticleInstructables 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...
View ArticleInstructables 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...
View ArticleNIMBY 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...
View Article40% 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...
View ArticleEyeborg: 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...
View ArticleSpace 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...
View Article3-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...
View ArticleDesigners 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...
View ArticleHandmade 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...
View ArticleOctopus 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...
View ArticleGiant 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...
View Article(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,...
View Article(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,...
View ArticleInstructables 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...
View ArticleVirus 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...
View ArticleOfficial 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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