Top 10 How-To Blogs
If you like to futz around with things to make them cooler, better, or just your own, you're not alone. Here are ten blogs that show you're in good company--and how thousands of people are doing their projects as well, from beginners to masters.
The Web site for the tech-oriented how-to magazine embraces both the practical and the weird: how to make your own surfboard, sure, but also how to create a chair out of drinking straws and how to make flammable ice. Also features high-tech DIY including robots and drones.
Probably the broadest one-stop DIY site, Instructables features varying types of instruction on creating everything from simple coat racks and garden-hose reels to Mad Scientist-level microscopes, Tesla coils and a shot-glass based DNA extractor.
Over 65,000 collaboratively written how-tos in eight languages and 21 categories, including thousands in a Computers and Electronics category that's heavy with articles on Linux. Also covers physical-world problems like removing old handlebar grips from your bike or how to the thread count on screws.
A wide-ranging site that roams from creating flower hair clips to a $1 ECG, a desk "squid" to hold together home-electronics assemblies, your own personal fonts, and a walkie-talkie-based remote camera trigger.
Tips on hacking your diet--making it healthier, cheaper, fresher, tastier and better for the planet.
This community is easily the best, busiest place for over 100,000 audiophiles who wonder about what woofers would go best with their existing Vifa D27TG-05 tweeters, or how mounting a driver on the inside of a baffle that has a radiused corner might affect sound quality.
Wide-ranging advice on everything from spy gadgets to self-injecting Botox and building your own Segway. Produces its own content and aggregates the best of others.
Because you can, want to make your own organic pesticide, Tupperware synthesizers or headphone amplifier, or know how to speed up your Mac's fans so it runs cooler or convert a film camera to digital.
More high-tech (read: geekY) than most other blogs, this one focuses on modifying computers, chips and even individual transistors in order to get things done in the real world (driving through cities, hacking Guitar Hero, getting ever-closer to running an iPhone using Linux).
This anti-how-to site shows you how not to play chess, how not to get a job, and how not to lie ("When telling a lie look away from the person [you're] telling it to").
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