Positions available at Instructables
Instructables is seeking interns of all shapes and sizes! We're looking for people who take good pictures, write well, and want to share their knowledge and help us manage the community. An active Instructables account with great projects is the best way to show off your skills. It's very rare that we would hire an intern who hasn't already posted an Instructable, so if you aren't already an author, share something!
All of our internships are paid. We unfortunately do not offer unpaid internships. Our summer 2013 internship program is full.
Tim is also running an internship program where he teaches you skills in exchange for help documenting heirloom technologies. Check here for more information.
Instructables is located in downtown San Francisco, CA.
Internships on are a rolling basis, and there is no deadline for applications.
Instructables is the most popular Do It Yourself community on the Internet. Started in August 2005, Instructables provides accessible tools and publishing instructions to enable passionate, creative people to share their most innovative projects, recipes, ideas, and hacks. The site is currently home to over 85,000 projects covering such diverse areas as crafts, art, kids, electronics, pets, bikes, cars, robotics, green projects, and cooking. In 2011, we were acquired by Autodesk. Our benefits are now super-charged!
We're located in downtown San Francisco in an old salon, with gorgeous natural light and access to our roof. At our lab, we have a laser cutter, 5 sewing machines each with a different specialty, a full kitchen, and plenty of hand-tools in addition to the computers you'd expect. We have work-sponsored Trojan Horse raids, Pirate Raids and Zombie Attacks, Build Nights, Pizza Offs, indoor skydiving, trapeze lessons, and monthly build-days.
If you want to work remotely
Click here for more information about helping out around the Instructables website.
This is the most recent and up to date job listing for Instructables despite the posting date.
All of our internships are paid. We unfortunately do not offer unpaid internships. Our summer 2013 internship program is full.
Tim is also running an internship program where he teaches you skills in exchange for help documenting heirloom technologies. Check here for more information.
Instructables is located in downtown San Francisco, CA.
Internships on are a rolling basis, and there is no deadline for applications.
About Instructables
Instructables is the most popular Do It Yourself community on the Internet. Started in August 2005, Instructables provides accessible tools and publishing instructions to enable passionate, creative people to share their most innovative projects, recipes, ideas, and hacks. The site is currently home to over 85,000 projects covering such diverse areas as crafts, art, kids, electronics, pets, bikes, cars, robotics, green projects, and cooking. In 2011, we were acquired by Autodesk. Our benefits are now super-charged!
We're located in downtown San Francisco in an old salon, with gorgeous natural light and access to our roof. At our lab, we have a laser cutter, 5 sewing machines each with a different specialty, a full kitchen, and plenty of hand-tools in addition to the computers you'd expect. We have work-sponsored Trojan Horse raids, Pirate Raids and Zombie Attacks, Build Nights, Pizza Offs, indoor skydiving, trapeze lessons, and monthly build-days.
If you want to work remotely
Click here for more information about helping out around the Instructables website.
This is the most recent and up to date job listing for Instructables despite the posting date.
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"For summer 2013, we only have internship positions open for software engineering. You must currently be in an undergraduate or graduate program to qualify."
"Instructables is seeking interns of all shapes and sizes! We're looking for people who take good pictures, write well, and want to share their knowledge and help us manage the community."
Is there an age limit for the job? :D We would like to help out for free, just for instructables to be better place! I've been an instructable fan at the age of 10. Me and my friends have some programming capabilities, well we study in a Academics&Technical School. Building projects and programming is our hobby (HTML, CSS, JAVA, JQuery ,C++, Arduino), hope to spend my free time reaching out for some help :)))))
I don't know Californian employment law, but in the UK you would be old enough for paid work, like a paper round or helping in a shop, as long as it did not interfere with school work, and as long as your school is satisfied that the work is safe.
So, what you need to do is find out what the legal position is in San Francisco (somebody at school should be able to help with that). Regarding safety, there are no tools at HQ more dangerous than those you'll use in "shop" lessons.
Assuming that goes well, you will then need to a proposal together for Ewihelm, the boss. Say what you could help with, what skills you have, maybe even suggest projects you could do independently.
Words of warning, though:
You need to remember that HQ is not a school or youthclub - the staff there are very friendly, some of the coolest people you'll ever meet, but they have their own jobs to do, and will not be able to monitor you and your safety as closely as you may be used to.
Having said that, good luck.
I just realize that there's a certain section in ibles, I haven't gone into, the forum section! Well I could probably post articles about site improvements :))) I Guess the forum section doesn't get viewers as much as the ible guides.
- Thanks
To be fair, Instructables is certainly not the same as it was in those days*, and I am not at all the same person I was back then. :)
*Or perhaps as it was portrayed, I suppose.
http://www.instructables.com/group/air/?show=INSTRUCTABLES&limit=15&sort=VIEWS
http://www.instructables.com/community/Artist-in-Residence-FAQ/
way better being called an AIRhead than intern.
I could write a letter of recommendation...wait, that won't do any good...
I highly recommend giving it a go.
*One of them was me.
Internships and "proper" are different, but, since hundreds of British students spend their Summers working in US summercamps, or spending a gap year working there, I'd assume the problems are routinely surmountable.
Still ill try to post all the stuff i can, researching in mexican candy :)
Also will make a post on the dia de muertos and noche mexicana how to, just hope to ge the time.
Thanks instructables for this oportunity to share my small knowledge, this is helping me as a small therapy to overcome my depression.
L
I assume this is the contact info. Is it not?
iwannawork@instructables.com
(translation!) Hope that helps.
The topic could have been better written to include something like "If you would like more information e-mail us at-"
(it's British-sarcasm or something)
L
check my work at www.deevista.com/anim for3D graphics & animations.
Dominic Ancelm
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
think bout it and for more details just mail me at
scientificshiv@gmail.com
PM me if anyone knows the details...
If you genuinely want the job, apply for it.
If you want to start a UK branch, let me know. Due to time constraints, I've only made 2 instructables, but both were featured, and one was put in one of your ebooks .... huh, huh?
Cheers -
Xrissy
We are going to be at the makers faire this year! In full force.
No, the UK Faire, in Newcastle. There's a forum topic about it somewhere...
measure twice cut once and all that
Wilheim, Eric info@instructables.com
Instructables
82 2nd St.
San Francisco, California 94105
United States
while the .ca is lacking... and isn't registered through godaddy like .com is
Name: (10dollar.ca) 10 Dollar Domain Names Inc.
Number: 1064689
peace
*
i just find it a little annoying when everything is on the east coast (its a long and or expensive trip!).
yay, instructables.ca!
[Dreams of a career change.]
tsuss! klk
However if you need a token physically challenged individual I would score quite highly in that respect, however, you should take into account that a staff member on morphine can be somewhat limited on occasions…lmao
My next project is to design and build a TMS device (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) as this has shown some remarkable effects on chronic pain. I would value constructive comments, ideas, help from any of you who might be interested.
I would be happy to build extentions and robots.
people could add instructables and look through the site without needing to change page.
i am offering you free setup from me and free extentions and robots AND MORE TRAFFIC ON THIS SITE... that is neede to make money to keep the whole site up and running.
the shop can be on instructables and people can sell there projects if they dont need or want them or just made extras.
i want to allow letter by lettter communication and make it easer to edit and do what ever they need to do with instructables/waves.
if i get hired there will need to be a sub-domain http://wave.instructables.com/ for me to install openfire and then add google wave with a robot that will convurt the instructables into waves.
what happens with the pros?
pros will have no adds annoying them,
they loose the advantage of being the only one with all-steps: every one gets it.
they can talk i the pro fourms/waves by using a group known as pro@instructables.com
just rember the hard work is done the wavers make the platform (using java, javascript, and xml) ok so i still have a hard task to do that is creat a fully javascript wave baced single html page.
just an unfinished sample of my idea for the embing waves goto http://jamesm.com.au/blog/ this is going to be a pay-for deal but for my fav site its free.(that this site...)
so please i have been making websites from the age of 7 and i have a realy good knollage of what is possable in the web browser.
lolz!
Being able to read and understand instructions may be considered a primary function of the job, in which case you've just disqualified yourself.
I can make a sunbeam rifle. you contain sunbeam in a round bowl(construct it) of some kind. the cover should be from the grey material that doesn't contain or let heat through. In the cover you put cells that holds sunlight. put a cap (two, one across the other) to make an opening. open the cap and let the beam go through magnifying glasses and it will shoot like a solar rifle. you can kill an human being miles away. the sunbeam won't disperse because those light molecules will be denser than tne sun's. I even have theorie of making a bomb out of sunlight, a bomb that evaporates human's. but I don't have the money, it's cheap though. sorry from gramatical error's because my main language is dutch.
Internships
Instructables is seeking interns of all shapes and sizes! We're looking for people who take good pictures, write well, and want to share their knowledge and help us manage the community. An active Instructables account with great projets is the best way to show off your skills." Projects is spelled wrong, you spelled projets.I am a writer and author of number of books in English and regional language and also extensively toured India with lot of good pictures and help you on virtual India tour. My Book -Opportunities Unlimited is about Case studies of 50 people who come from poor to middle class people and how they have come up in life by sheer hard work.
I can help you with pictures which I have taken myself. Pl let meknow your interest.
R.Jagannathan.
And of course neither are disordered activities, it takes management and advertising, the business space needs to be bought, and just selling your service.
organization is not always required in all areas, such as where you place your massage table doesn't have to be placed exactly, but the cans of fruit need to be ordered.
And organization is not the only skill necessary for a business, it needs management to see over all, advertisement, and when starting off a major important thing is to get to be friends with the surrounding / similar businesses. e.g. for Instructables, maybe when they started they looked at other DIY forums for tips, and maybe get to know the makers.
Not the best at a 9-5 kind of job, but for ex sits in a restaurant making half a dozen napkin pictures everyone smiles at.
If a web site needed a pix of the week, or etc, he'd be a great guy.
Pen name is Dav and I would just "Think" there are people who would like custom cartoons now and then
Here it is
would you by any chance be interested into an EN-FR translator ? I'm pretty conscious it's a modest occupation, just as well as France is a modest country — ;-))) — but i'm really good at it, modestly speaking of course !
Best regards, and congrutalations for your work
Seb
REGARDS
CJ
yang_spd@yahoo.com
Gosh.
What's your avatar going to look like?
Here's an Amazon link to some useful guides.
http://www.amazon.com/2009-Writers-Market-Robert-Brewer/dp/1582975418/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251254557&sr=8-2
All the team are responsible for featuring all worthy projects, by as close to the same criteria a bunch of intercontinental volunteers can manage.
K'NEX projects are subject to the same criteria as all the others (some have been featured - ask DJ).
But darn the fact that I'm twelve...
Would be a sick job. Not for the cash, but for a 13-yearold like me to be wanted
to build something! (yes mum, i'll clean up my workshop later. No mum, I didn't take the toaster (grabs towel and throws over gutted toaster)).
But seriously. If anything ever happens over here, my hand will be first up for a job.
At work, I am forced to deal with .NET *sigh*
"1954-1957: FORTRAN is developed.
FORTRAN was the first modern computer programming language. For scientific programming, FORTRAN is a real racehorse. Year after year, FORTRAN is a leading language among computer programmers throughout the world. A well-known computer scientist, Tony Hoare, once said, "I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN."
1959: COBOL is created.
The letter B in COBOL stands for Business, and business is just what COBOL is all about. The language's primary feature is the processing of one record after another, one customer after another, or one employee after another.
Within a few years after its initial development, COBOL became the most widely used language for business data processing. Even today, COBOL represents a large part of the computer programming industry.
1972: Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs develops the C programming language.
...
1986: Bjarne Stroustrup (again at AT&T Bell Labs) develops C++.
Unlike its C language ancestor, the language C++ supports object-oriented programming. This represents a huge step forward. "
Dang, typing word-for-word is tough.
So, reading it again, this book states that C++ was the first modern Object-Oriented programming language, correct?
- this book states that C++ was the first modern Object-Oriented programming language, correct?
Smalltalk was considerably earlier (~1980), and I think it had most of the features that make something a "modern OOP language." However, it's resource requirements were a bit ahead of the "state of the art" (you had to have a big fast machine to run smalltalk slower than other programming languages.)I was feeling old, and I'm 33,lol..
now Pascal is the only one I ever remember hearing about... but, im not a professional either...lol
I have a friend getting ready to appy for a 50-100,000 a year job hear in a ok size town, not small, but not big either, dover ohio, and another one in a small town for IT Manager for 50M Auto Company. Experience with .NET SQL Server
EDI Auto ERP a plus, dont know salary though, in midvale ohio...lol,
good luck all...
or at least it is now...
19thd. Yes im soooo cool i get to skip numbers.
LOLLERCOASTER!!!!!!!
Or maybe this summer if possible.
I would stay at Instructables all summer-- who cares about my friends.
:P
Where can I sign up??
Also, things you can start reading up on now are the different Java frameworks
and design patterns. It certainly wouldn't hurt to start digging into AJAX as well. Everyone seems to be using it these days...I've seen it put to good use and bad use...don't be one of the "bad use" people ;)
Finally, a good place to start (funny i put that at the end) is Object Oriented Programming...some of you young guys know what that is, some don't. If you don't, you're going to need it. I wound up teaching myself Java and it was my first dip into the OO pool. It was a very deep rabbit hole for me and there are still some Java architects out there that I think go "over the top" and completely over-engineer things. Remember keep things simple, balanced and maintainable.
Anyway, i'm rambling...very encouraging to see this though, and kudo's to instructables for sticking with open source tech....
Ryan
lifewithryan.com
I don't know if you even have positions open at this point or not, but thought I should add myself to your enormous list of hopefuls in any case!
Rupa(Magic)
I've built my own foundry, completely by myself, for $80, mostly because I had to buy a riveter and rivets ($20), a big bag of cement (I only used a little of it)
and a couple other things that will last for other projects. I could have made it for about $50, though.
I love building my own stuff, it is my form of passing time. My mom hates it though, as I'm taking up almost a quarter of our garage (two-car), and it is really messy ( "but it's not my fault, mom!")
Sorry about the overly long list of my life....
I fixed it for you :P