Today I want to show you a project I've been working on. It's a digital book called Make it Yourself: 1000 Useful Things to Make, and it's basically a showcase of some of the best open hardware and DIY projects from across the Internet.

1000 USEFUL THINGS TO MAKE

Think of it like those old mail order catalogs that contained everything the average person might use in every day life. The difference here is that instead of products to buy, every item listed represents a DIY project that you can make yourself.

Categories include everything from Gaming, Computing, Photography, to Hiking & Camping, Cycling, Skateboarding, Furniture, Clothing & Fashion, Gardening & Farming, Home Decor and everything in between.

Different tools and skills are required to make these things, and you can see what type of project each is by looking at the icons at the top left of the listings. These include 3D printing, CNC milling, laser cutting, electronics, woodworking, sewing, metalworking, leatherworking and papercraft, with many of the projects being a mixture of these types.

A good example of the variation inside is in the Hiking and Camping section, where you'll not only see sewing projects for how to make rucksacks, tents, sleeping bags, camping pillows etc, but there are also 3D printing projects for things like tent stakes, rope tensioners, and miscellaneous tools. There are also simple electronic flashlight projects, and easy to make metal camping stoves.

The Maker Tools section at the end of the book is also one of my favorites, and covers a plethora of useful hand tools and machines you can make, in order to make even more things!

If you want to check out a particular project you simply click on one of the illustrations and it will open your browser and go directly to the relevant project websites. The bottom of each page contains further details on each project.

It's been a truly humbling experience to put this book together, seeing all of this amazing work in one place. I think it really demonstrates what is possible when creative people make things and share their work freely with all of humanity.

So, in that same spirit of sharing, if you want to check it out, you can go to makeityourself.org to download it now for free. I hope it can be serve as inspiration for your next project. Thanks for watching, bye!

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BY NODE