From decorative crafts, robotics, Arduino to furniture and gardening, nothing is out of reach for the committed Do-It-Yourselfer. If you're looking to save or earn a little extra money, this collection of DIY resources will show you how to start.
Instructables
Instructables is a vast repository of DIY projects contributed by people of all ages around the world. Users upload instructions and photographs that guide others through the steps. On the homepage, kids are greeted by four tabs: Explore, Create, Contests, and Community. Under Explore, they’ll find a list of categories (technology, food, living, play, and outside) and featured and recent projects. The Create tab guides kids through the process of uploading their own creations using a WordPress-style content management system. Kids who want to upload their own Instructable must create an account, but those who only want to read others’ projects can browse anonymously. The Contests category shares competitions (with prizes!) based on themes chosen by the Instructables team. A recent list includes a Bike Contest, a Fried Food Contest, and a Drones Contest. Users vote for the Instructable they think deserves to win. The Community section includes groups and forums organized by shared interests, such as Urban Prototyping or Drawing and Art. Instructables offers free Pro accounts for teachers, which allows kids to share within a closed group, only open to members of their class.
wikiHow
wikiHow is an award-winning online wiki-style publication featuring expert co-authored, how-to articles on a variety of topics from health to relationships to tech. Similar to Wikipedia, wikiHow has a large community of editors who help ensure the quality of its articles. The website aims to create the world's most helpful how-to instructions to enable everyone in the world to learn how to do anything. wikiHow provides how-to content on the Internet by allowing anyone to edit pages.As of May 2021, it contains over 230,000 articles. Most follow a similar format with steps, tips, warnings, and a list of required things, and are complemented with illustrations.
eHow
eHow is an online how-to guide with many articles and 170,000 videos offering step-by-step instructions. eHow articles and videos are created by freelancers and cover a wide variety of topics organized into a hierarchy of categories. Any eHow user can leave comments or responses but only contracted writers can contribute changes to articles. The writers work on a freelance basis, being paid by the article. eHow is frequently called a content farm
