Best of 2009: Best of Each Category

Intro: Best of 2009: Best of Each Category

To celebrate the end of the year we already looked at the top 50 lists for comments, views, and ratings, but this time we're going to break it down by category. What's below is the top 10 list for each category in terms of views.

Of course, being popular does not absolutely imply that an Instructable is the best. Please view this list as an introduction to each of the categories.

So are you ready for a big ol' pile of data? Then dig into this.

Also:
Best of 2009: Top Viewed Instructables
Best of 2009: Top-Rated Instructables
Best of 2009: Most Commented

art   Instructable Views 1How to Make a Seed Bomb 67959 2Building a Lightsaber 52474 3How to Make 6 Pointed Paper Snowflakes 47051 4Using Silicone based pastes to create quick makeup 38050 5Beyond Belief and Back (in 30 secs.): An Optical Illusion 34743 6Powerthief 34462 7Identity Preserving Balaclava (all the warmth with none of the anonymity!) 33866 8Homemade Stickers 33701 9How To Make A Pinhole Camera 32795 10Wall Illusion Easy Forced Perspective Wall Art 30675

craft   Instructable Views 1Genuine chainmaille from pop tabs 136196 2down and dirty screenprinting for under 10 96669 3Sew a Where the Wild Things Are hat pattern 81731 4Making A Glove Work With A Touch Screen 73539 5Reusing Lightbulbs as planters or mini terrariums 69044 6Make a Dress from a Button Down Shirt 54669 7Recycled T shirt Necklace 42062 8Drill Small Precise Holes'a0 41689 9How to make a chainmail shirt 36883 10Build a foundry and sand cast aluminum 36535

food   Instructable Views 15 minute Ice Cream 137927 2How to make a VHS video toaster 60196 34 minute Chocolate Mousse 58102 4Tap a Watermelon or How to Make a Watermelon Keg 54667 5Drumsticks 43252 6Cupcake Cones 37509 7How to Build Your Own BBQ Barrel 29615 85 Minute Pie 26205 9Baked Brie 25377 10Eggnog Recipe 23734

games   Instructable Views 1The Ultimate Nerf Vulcan Mod 58242 2Cryptex 39889 3Upgrading the Xbox 360 hard drive CHEAP 39692 4How to Make an Irretrievable Easter Egg 37285 5Pocket Sized Minty Catapult 37213 6Electrified Monopoly Steampunk Inspired 31227 7How to Make an Atari Game 26704 8Hand made COG Tags 24204 9Altoids Tin Travels Games Pocket Size Fun 21313 103D companion cube. Its time to fire up Inventor and make my own companion cube. 20131

green   Instructable Views 148V Electric Flat Tracker 87878 2Homemade Shampoo 72880 3VERTICAL VEGETABLES quotGrow upquot in a smal 69467 4How to Milk an Almond fresh homemade almond milk 55202 5How To Make A Tesla Turbine Greenest Turbine 51267 6Make a Solar DS that you will Never Need to Rechar 50994 7Deodorant 50776 8Hydroponic Food Factory 46595 9FASTEST RECYCLED T SHIRT TOTE BAG 45028 10Mini Solar Air Conditioner 41939

home   Instructable Views 1How to create a fiber optic starfield ceiling 69658 2How to extend the life of your Razor Blade keeping it sharp for months and months 67488 3How to Build a Polished Concrete Desk 62357 4Locking a deadbolt from the outside without a Key 58800 5Inexpensive DIY Under Cabinet Lighting 51326 6Bottle Cap Table with Poured Resin Surface 51155 7Scrap Table 49184 8Build a Large DB8 HDTV Antenna Big Bertha 42152 9Cardboard Lumber 38550 10How to install a "garage door open" indicator 37583

kids   Instructable Views 11 ingredient Ice Cream 53431 2Build a cheap and easy Den 17440 3LEGO Halloween Costume 15410 4fun jumpers 14926 5The Princess Playhouse 14278 6Fold a kitchen into your pocket 13231 7How to use spaghetti to paint like Jackson Pollock 13106 8Cardboard Frisbee 1 12395 9Fun with bottles 11877 10Broken Arm Lego Accessories 11343

life   Instructable Views 1Six Days a Week 34138 2Pocket Sized Lantern 29334 3emergency vehicle escape keychain 28622 4The Quest for Ambidexterity 21761 5Buisness card with mints 21525 6Ideas for Altoids and other tins 21042 7How to unclog sink pipes 21022 8A sunrise and sunset lamp with LEDs 20914 9How to Make Maternity Jeans Using Regular Jeans and a T-shirt 17330 10How to get rid of Razor Burn quick 16777

music   Instructable Views 1How to Build Custom Speakers 47501 2The Homewrecker 42765 3The Prism A Laser Synth Guitar 41291 4800watt 12 long 16quot diameter Bass Cannon 37711 5Making Simple PVC Flutes 37321 6Tic Tac Tunes 34690 7Build a music studio in an apartment building 34554 8Make a Korg Kaossilator Guitar 31978 9Scallop Your Guitar Standard Scallop Frets 14 21 31270 10Robot Voice Modulator 30838

offbeat   Instructable Views 1The Twittering Office Chair 147512 2Edible Shot Glasses 100593 3Match Rocket 80254 4Mini Spud Gun, Classroom Nemesis 62109 5Chluaids 10 minute Monkey Fist 56203 6Body Casting and Chocolate Molding 53805 7Quick and Dirty Hand Held "Tesla Coil" 46306 8Light Up Goggles 41083 9Laughing Coke Can Prank 36471 10Nerf Mods A Beginners Guide 35789

outdoors   Instructable Views 1Sleep Warm Anywhere 55181 2Upside Down Hanging Earth Box 48998 3Homemade Sunscreen 46867 4Stay Warm with the Heiny Heater 44366 5Pocket Sized Camp Stove (The Improved "Penny Stove") 41268 6Car Dash Camera Mount 39314 74-3/4 oz Ultra-light Backpacking Kitchen (video demo) 36801 8Gas Bottle Wood Burner 34161 9Arduino RC Lawnmower 31020 10How to tie various knots 30755

pets   Instructable Views 1Motion Sensor Cat Toy endless fun literally 28622 2Cat Powered Auto Feeder 22159 3Ikea Built My Cat Scratcher 17381 4Automated Cat Feeder 17335 5Clipping Chicken Wings 17214 6Table Top Aquarium 16556 7How to make a magnetic fish tank cleaner 16291 8Cheap automatic aquarium feeder on the go 14687 9The FerretMobile DIY Ferret Wheelchair 11501 10Make Your Dog Into A Bunch Of Grapes For Halloween 11236

photography   Instructable Views 1How to make a fish eye lens for a Nikon D-90 Digital SLR for $16 75690 2iSteadii 20 Image Stabilizing Unit 49399 3How To Take Great Close Up Photos 38717 4Fakin It Polaroid Transfers That Look Real 31363 5Kite Aerial Photography KAP 29823 6Camera Light Ring 26752 7How to Make a Snorricam 25687 8Universal 2 Gyro Image stabilizer 23961 9Portable Paperless Digital Copy Machine 23579 10Single HD Gyro Image stabilizer 23324

ride   Instructable Views 1Steampunk Segway Legway 78735 2Bike Generator 63104 3EXTREME FAT TIRE BICYCLE 44862 4How to Strap a Leaf Blower Engine to a Bike and Go Fast 38570 5Snail Art Car The Golden Mean 33879 6Contactless dynamo powering bike safety lights 33775 7Self balancing one wheeled electric skateboard 30640 8Vehicle efficiency upgrades 28031 9Building a quotUniverse Cyclequot 27876 10Bamboo Bike Frame 27425

science   Instructable Views 1Convert your Honda Accord to run on trash 119089 2Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat 73148 3Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio 66156 4How to Make a Synthetic Diamond 64783 5Ballistic Gel 64509 6Copper Fire Log Heater Burns clean with alcohol 57701 7Water Bottle Bazooka 54319 8Portable 12 Volt 17 Watt Wind Generator with Automatic Furling 53297 9My home made solar cell 1 52221 10Real-time Web Based Household Power Usage Monitor 51278

tech   Instructable Views 1How to make a solar iPodiPhone charger aka Might 158887 2A Word Clock 147826 3How to Wire Your House With Cat 5 or 6 For Ether 124085 4DIY High-Speed Book Scanner from Trash and Cheap Cameras 119346 5How to make a fractal antenna for HDTV DTV plus 117538 6Wave Laptop Stand Making 3D Shapes in Ilustrator 107970 7Free Electronic Samples 94282 8Wireless Power 84657 9HOMEMADE PLASMA CUTTER 83847 10Cheapy Laser Lighter Burner 83765

Comments

[btop]

 Number 8 in outdoors! :)

[GeekBeam]

    now why is knex not considered a catagory in this contest it takes up a size-able amount of space on this site.if i had enough time i'd give an essay on why knex should be a category on this site let alone this contest

[bloke2022]

knex is no longer a category on this site, look up.

[GeekBeam]

... i didn't mean that i ment it is considered a catagory on the site you seem to be looking at the catagories for this contest. am i right?

[bloke2022]

Not really, look at the bar of categories. There is no longer a knex category for some reason.

[GeekBeam]

ok i noticed when i came onto this site i ment in the pat where you choose a catagory you'r 'ible is ment to be in knex comes up as one

[bloke2022]

hmmm......I wouldn't know for I havn't published anything recently :( , but that is odd.

[GeekBeam]

yep that's the problem it might be that knex is a sub-catagory under kids. i don't know tho

[GeekBeam]

this conversation has now ended, so lets not look into it any deeper please people.

[chopstx]

But then why can you post an ible in the knex section?

[scottjones1998]

shut up

[TheChemiker]

Um, yes it is, look it up

[dsman195276]

Just wondering, what catigory did the K'NEX Ibles fall under in this?

I would guess Offbeat, but I just want to be sure.

[egbertfitzwilly]

We should have a category for cumulative that credits authors who are more prolific but don't have a single "monster" instructable. The category should probably include only folks who have contributed at least one instructable this year so that older ones don't dominate simply because they have age advantage unless the author is still actively contributing in which prolific counts...

[Kiteman]

Yay!  Number 8 in Kids!

[macgeek]

www.knex.com/

And here I was thinking it was a Klingon war cry!

Live and learn!

Jonathan

[itsachen]

 Yay! My instructable is on here.

[Kryptonite]

Amazing work every one, I think it's great that people can create and share their ideas over the internet and I take my hat off to each and every one of you.

[NYPA]

Were's the K'NEX catagorey?

[bassclarinet23]

Knex isn't a category.