Maker/DIY Resources: Web Resources

One of the most popular online destination for makers, crafters, inventors, tinkerers, and amateur scientists. The site features breaking DIY news and information, original content on building, repairing, and modifying the technology that surrounds us, and step-by-step project articles on a broad range of topics.

A place that lets you explore, document, and share your creations

The maker culture is a thriving movement amongst all types of people who want to create and design their own objects, crafts, or computer code. This DIY community is using state-of-the-art technology such as 3D printers to design and craft their own 3D objects.

This Libguide directs you to books, web sites, videos, etc. that encourage and support making, playing, and tinkering.

MakerBot's Thingiverse is a thriving design community for discovering, making, and sharing 3D printable things.

This site is brought to you in collaboration with Instructables and the American Library Association, and it is our hope that through this site, libraries of all stripes and sizes will be able to experiment with maker projects. Make it @ Your Library believes that content creation in the library is a vital direction for our libraries to pursue.

Maker projects don’t need to be the result of thousands of dollars of space renovation, equipment or special staffing. The projects on this site, powered by Instructables and vetted by librarians, are a great way to begin. Happy creating!

DIY is the best way for kids to get skills, meet others who share the same passions, and generally be awesome. Every member has their own portfolio where they share what they make and do, and earn embroidered skill patches for completing sets of challenges.

Adafruit was founded in 2005 by MIT engineer, Limor "Ladyada" Fried. Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels.

In 2012, after years of coding tutorials by hand, Limor put together a small team to build a custom tutorial management system from the ground up.

The Adafruit Learning System allows us to make a wide range of awesome tutorials fast and efficiently. We hope these tutorials will help you learn something new, and inspire you to make something great!

Think of the coolest 1) technology bookstore, 2) museum gift shop, 3) arts & craft shop, and 4) electronics store you can dream up -- now roll them all into one. That's the idea behind Maker Shed. It's an irresistible collection of books, kits, robots, microcontrollers, science sets, electronics, tools and supplies, all curated by us, the people behind MAKE and Maker Faire.