DIY Nirvana, aka Instructables.com

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Instructables.com? Every time I go browsing over there, I get the urge to start messing with stuff.

Lots of people out there doing a lot of really cool things with stuff that’s just sitting around. If you ever wondered how to make a nifty rubber band powered cat feeder out of basically stuff you were throwing away anyway, or how to build a fairly detailed and complete Ghostbuster costume for Halloween.. or hell, just about how to do anything, Instructables has an article for you.

There are two things though I really love about this site. Even if none of the projects happen to strike your fancy (and if so – keep looking, there’s a lot there!), the tricks and tips and ideas that come up in them are pretty useful in their own right. Instructables is where I learned about Rub-n-Buff, for instance. If you have any inclination at all to build, shape, arrange, construct or design things yourself, you’re guaranteed to find something interesting every time you check in.

The other thing I love is that the site is sort of a jumping off point for finding people around the Internet who are doing REALLY cool things. Like making steampunk keyboards:

Or how about a complete, working steampunk laptop?

Now that is some hard core cool computing, folks.