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The growing DIY movement takes apart and puts together gizmos and aims to have a better and deeper understanding of technology.

DIYcity

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An unincorporated, decentralized, post-managerial organization whose plan is to first get to know each other a little bit, then reinvent the world. A bit cheeky if you ask me. They seem to be aiming to corral do-it-yourselfers in rethinking how society is working.

They have a pair of challenges on the site now which give a sense of this:

DIYcity Challenge #1: build a Twitter bot that helps users avoid traffic and get where they're going faster.

DIYcity Challenge #2: Conceive of a grassroots ridesharing system that can overcome the problems inherent in ridesharing and achieve critical mass.

They have groups centered on several large cities around the world, however most of the groups are empty. Clearly whatever this will become is a dream in someones mind at the moment.

They have topics listed related to data access, mashups, mobile apps, social software.. which are fitting with the above challenge ideas that involve using web2.0 software to solve social problems. As if tweeting traffic conditions will help anybody?

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Uni Strut

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There is only one Unistrut Metal Framing System. It incorporates the innovative product improvements that our research and development group has created to give you the most complete and flexible support system available. Backed by our worldwide network of engineering and distribution centers, Unistrut provides customers with total-resource capability. We invented it. The one you know, the one you trust, the one you ask for by name… Unistrut, accept no substitute.

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Instructables

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Instructables is a website brought to you by the partners at www.squid-labs.com. We make a lot of stuff, for business, and for pleasure. We've been looking for a long time for a convenient system for documenting our how-to projects, and the things we make, but it simply didn't exist. We decided we'd have to develop it ourself, and here it is, it will evolve as we grow to meet our own rigorous demands, and those of our users. Principal in our demands is convenience - it should take less time to document a project than it did to build it.

On the site they publish dozens of plans for interesting projects.

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