Share Your Build with 10,000 Makers

Make: Projects Homepage

Make: Projects Homepage

Wanna share your project builds with thousands of like-minded folks? We’re thrilled to announce that we officially have 10,000 maker community members of all stripes on Make: Projects, our how-to wiki! We launched Make: Projects a little over a year and a half ago as a way to share projects from previous issues of MAKE and CRAFT, and to give our community a place to share their own builds. We now have 960 awesome projects to browse in topics as diverse as the skills and interests of our community.

One of the first community-contributed projects we saw was the Penny Countertop by Shane Selman and Michael Reilly of Artifacture Studios, and their project continues to be one of the most popular on the site, with around 280K views. Not only is it a cool, useful project, but their how-to is well written with great pictures, and they’ve been really active in helping folks troubleshoot their own builds.

The wiki format invites folks to help improve projects on the site, and all fields are editable. It’s been wonderful watching makers help one another solve problems and fine-tune builds. One amazing community member is Martin Schmidt, who has single-handedly made grammatical edits to a whopping 118 projects! When I first saw his edits and sent him a thank you note, he replied: “The maker movement is an exciting one to me and I’m glad to be able to contribute something useful, however small.” Thanks so much, Martin — we’re excited to meet and host you at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area!

We’ve gotten great feedback and continue to improve the site all the time. If you haven’t checked it out yet, take a test drive and let us know what you think! And if you want to pitch your project ideas for MAKE magazine, there’s no better way than to share your build on Make: Projects.

In case you were wondering, our 10,000th maker is Bill Selberis. We’ll be sending him a Maker’s Notebook.

A big high five to everyone who has joined the community and shared their knowledge. Thank you for helping to build Make: Projects into a valuable resource for all makers! Next up: Who will enter the 1000th project?

8 thoughts on “Share Your Build with 10,000 Makers

  1. Lizzy says:

    would that be the 1,000th *user*-contributed project, or the 1,000th project overall?

    1. Goli Mohammadi says:

      Hi Lizzy,

      The 1,000th project overall. The 960 we have so far is a good mix of previous magazine content and community-contributed builds. We’re all family! Looking forward to seeing your projects there!

  2. Rob Cruickshank (@robcruickshank) says:

    Ok, that cleaver through the arm made me jump a bit.

    1. Goli Mohammadi says:

      Sweet! Did you check out the project? http://makeprojects.com/Project/Action-Movie-Effects/1893/1

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