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The DIY Electronics Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide
An overview of the stages of learning basic electronics: core components, simple circuits, essential tools and safe low-voltage habits for beginners.
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Learn to make things, one project at a time.
Plain-language guides to DIY electronics, crafts, upcycling, product design and prototyping for curious beginners and makers.
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10 DIY Home Automation Projects to Try This Weekend
Ten small, beginner-friendly home automation ideas built with low-voltage parts, plus practical notes on privacy, safety and keeping things simple.
The Art of Woodworking: Crafting Beautiful and Functional Pieces
An overview of basic woodworking: the main hand and power tools, joinery ideas, finishing options and the shop safety habits that keep you injury-free.
Sustainable Fashion: The Future of Clothing and Textiles
What sustainable clothing can and cannot mean, the trade-offs between fibers, durability and reuse, and practical ways to judge claims about greener fashion.
The Science of Materials: Exploring the Properties and Applications of Various Materials
Learn the core material properties, including strength, stiffness, hardness and more, and how they help makers choose wood, metal, plastic or fabric for a project.
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Build And Tinker
Hands-on electronics, home and craft projects.
Electronics And Robotics Microcontroller projects, gadgets and simple robots for beginners. 8 guides Home Projects Automation, security, lighting and decor for your own home. 6 guides Hands-On Crafts Woodworking, 3D printing, papercraft and upcycling. 7 guides Electronics Fundamentals The core ideas and tools behind every small circuit. 10 guides Smart Home Builds Planning and building home automation for your own place. 9 guides 3D Printing Workshop Practical knowledge for getting good prints from a desktop printer. 9 guides Woodworking Workshop Wood, tools and techniques for small furniture and projects. 10 guides Workshop Setup And Safety Making a safe, organized place to work. 9 guides
Design And Materials
Fashion, materials, product design and prototyping.
Fashion And Textiles Sustainable clothing and new textile ideas. 5 guides Materials And Art How materials work and where art meets technology. 4 guides Product Design Designing things for people, from accessibility to color. 7 guides Prototyping Turning an idea into a testable model and learning from failure. 5 guides Sewing And Textile Skills Hands-on skills for making, mending and reworking cloth. 9 guides Materials In Practice Choosing, joining and finishing the materials you actually use. 9 guides The Design Process Methods designers use to get from a need to a workable product. 11 guides
Community And Business
Working with others and turning making into work.
Maker Community Makerspaces, mentors, collaboration and learning by making. 7 guides Making A Business The maker movement and turning making into work. 4 guides Selling Handmade Work Practical, non-promissory guidance for selling what you make. 10 guides Sharing And Teaching Documenting, licensing and teaching what you make. 9 guides