Instructables
Overview
Instructables was created by the media lab professionals at MIT after discovering a need to share projects and connect with others. According to the website, their goal is to have "a place where anyone, (including students and teachers), can explore, document and share their creations". The website is filled with thousands of different how to projects, classes and articles for all grade levels. Projects range in topics including; math, art, science, electronics, engineering, arduino, 3D printing, workshopping and robotics. Users offer reviews, share their own creations as well as videos and instructions. Contests take place on the website and there is a class that can be taken to learn how to post an "instructable". Food is also a category on the website and many different recipes are included.
The community on the website is created once members are registered and then they are able to create and add their projects. Members can vote in the themed monthly contests and prizes are awarded to the winners. "Pro" membership does exist for a small fee of $2 a month but is not necessary to view all of the creations and projects that already exist on the website.
According to Wikipedia, "Instructables is a website specializing in user-created and uploaded do-it-yourself projects, currently owned by Autodesk. It was created by Eric Wilhelm and Saul Griffith and launched in August 2005. Instructables is dedicated to step-by-step collaboration among members to build a variety of projects. Users post instructions to their projects, usually accompanied by visual aids, and then interact through comment sections below each Instructable step as well in topic forums" [1]
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