We got a pleasant letter from [Eric Willhelm], the owner of Instructables. He wanted to shoot a token of good will our direction, in the form of an EPUB of some of the projects we’ve linked to in the ...

In its third acquisition this year, Autodesk, maker of design, engineering and entertainment software, has acquired San Francisco-based Instructables, a popular online community where people can ...

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Instructables has a neat if dangerous tutorial on how to quickly make a key copy by tracing the metal from a Coke can. It’s pretty obvious, and with that seed planted in your mind, there’s probably no ...

Instructables is a popular site for people who like to go all-out on Halloween, with tons of ghoulish projects designed to make your haunted house extra scary. But some people take that spirit and ...

We've looked at turning a MacBook into a tablet computer and even written some software for you to turn it into a nice heads up display, but Instructables user mkarvonen has created a how-to that ...

Build an ESP32-powered foam-dart shooting gallery with simple LEDs and hit detection. Three game modes: Seek Mode, timed Shooting Gallery, and Color Hunt using lit LEDs. Open-source Instructables ...

If your car is starting to show its age, one way to breathe a little cosmetic life into a new vehicle is to give it a new paint job. At the same time, a good paint job can cost thousands of dollars.

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Joshua Zimmerman has ...

Design lecturer John Edmark has created a series of designs for 3D-printed sculptures that appear to move, utilising an effect similar to a zoetrope (+ movie). Product designer John Edmark has shared ...

If that drawer full of neglected, outdated gadgets in your desk happens to include a Kindle, Jaap Meijers has come up with a clever way to put it back into service. His girlfriend, an avid reader and ...

One tech nerd is bringing the '80s back, this time in wearables. The Apple II Watch, designed by 24-year-old DJ Harrigan, is meant to parody the Apple Watch, which was released Friday, and show what ...