{"id":12667,"date":"2016-02-29T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=12667"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:22:49","slug":"excellent-places-to-find-projects-not-including-instructables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/excellent-places-to-find-projects-not-including-instructables\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Places to Find Projects… Not including Instructables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instructables is a fabulous online location for DIY projects of all types, whether it be more on the techy side (such as\u00a0an Arduino Laser Engraver<\/a>!) or if\u00a0you just happen to only have five ingredients but still need a way to make your\u00a0Red Velvet Whoopie Pie<\/a>. However, sometimes it is nice to branch out a little, and check out some other DIY havens of the web!<\/p>\n

Hackaday:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hackaday.com aims to\u00a0 “serve up playful posts” and is an excellent place to find hacks from around the internet curated and featured daily. They also have Hackaday.io where you can go and explore a multitude of cool\u00a0 (mostly hardware) projects.<\/p>\n

Hackster.io:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hackster.io is\u00a0a community dedicated to learning hardware together, and features an stellar project roster. They are notable for their easy navigation system, and the site is organized primarily by the hardware platform you wish to use\/learn. It also includes challenges and creative contests, as well as its new program Hackster Live, which aims to bring the community off\u00a0the internet and into meetups in\u00a0your area.<\/p>\n

Make:<\/a><\/p>\n

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This list would not be complete without the mention of\u00a0Makezine.com.\u00a0 In addition to their online project bank, if you prefer your curated content delievored in hard copy, Make is one of DIY culture’s original\u00a0magazines. And if you prefer to see amazing projects in person, be sure to check out Maker Faire or Mini Maker Faire <\/a>in your area!<\/p>\n

Reddit\/r\/diy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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They say there is a subreddit for everyone, and Makers are no exception! At approximately five and a half million readers, this sub is a stellar place to ask questions and check out projects made from other readers and community members. The subreddit \/r\/somethingimade <\/a>is also\u00a0a cool place to post and peruse less techy crafts and\u00a0projects!\u00a0The interactivity component of this resource is an invaluable way to interface in real time with the Maker community. If you are a fan of forums also feel free to check out our very own Digilent Forum<\/a>\u00a0complete with its own video introduction<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Github<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A more software focused platform, Github provides private and public code repository (though only public is free) as well as code collaboration, management and review. Explore and engage with what others are building and contribute your own!<\/p>\n

Bonus Cool Project (not found on Instructables)! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Location: Youtube.com<\/a><\/p>\n

In the wake of the release of\u00a0Marvel’s Deadpool, check out Dali DIY’s video tutorial <\/a>on how to craft your own Deadpool mask using a cereal box!<\/p>\n

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Hopefully you enjoyed these alternative\u00a0online repositories, and make sure to check out Digilent’s own personal project vault<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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We all know that Instructables is a great site and project resource, but what about the ones we may not know about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":12671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1563],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4485],"class_list":["post-12667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/deadpool_insta.jpg","authors":[{"term_id":4485,"user_id":36,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mirandamay7","display_name":"Miranda Hansen","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9bae943b615ddb1dedee72ccb219b464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Hansen","last_name_2":"","first_name":"Miranda","first_name_2":"","job_title":"","description":"I enjoy creative writing, engineering, thinking, building, exploring and sharing with people.\r\nHuge aficionado of spending time thinking about things that \u201cdon\u2019t matter.\u201d \r\n I am very interested in unconstrained creativity. I love cross-discipline ideas and all of their integration into complete original systems.\r\n\r\nAnd I like things that do things."}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12667"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=12667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}