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Woodgears.ca approaches beginner woodworking with an unusually practical rule: start making things before buying a room full of expensive tools. The page is part tutorial, part anti-shopping guide, and very much a product of the independent technical web.
Graphite Galaxy preserves hands-on amateur telescope material, including observing notes, equipment projects, collimation tools, optical alignment, and DIY accessories built from inexpensive materials instead of purchased as finished astronomy products.
DOS4Ever documents Ronald Dekker's Nixie clocks, tube testers, PIC projects, retro processors, restoration work, and electronics-history investigations in the dense project-page style that made the old technical web so useful.
Tetsuo Kogawa's transmitter workshop archive combines FM and TV transmitter schematics, tools, antenna notes, pictorial build instructions, FAQs, video, and a history of hands-on micro-radio workshops dating to 1990.
P-Car's DIY section preserves a deep early-2000s Porsche 993 maintenance archive covering routine service, repairs, troubleshooting, modifications, contributed procedures, and part-specific how-to pages.
Laurent Besset's solar-balloon site documents ultralight balloons heated only by sunlight, with construction notes, flight reports, payload estimates, historical material, multilingual pages, and wonderfully earnest W3C validation badges.
Eva Hollmann's Board Lady site turns years of hands-on windsurf, surf, and epoxy-board repair work into a detailed visual manual covering fiberglass, sandwich construction, inserts, soft decks, vacuum bagging, paint, leaks, and structural failures.
Steve Yates's AA5TB site has been online since 1998, collecting practical amateur-radio notes on antennas, feed lines, QRP work, homebrew baluns, small transmitting loops, and other material built from decades of hands-on radio experience.
Al Stevens's Fred Project documented how to build a professional ventriloquist figure from casting kits, materials, mechanisms, and patient handwork—and people still cite it as a practical reference.
Finnish animator Jan-Eric Nystrom's ANI-MATO site preserves practical animation knowledge including camera stands, film history, Super 16 modification, production techniques, and a working animator's own filmography.
David Omick's site is a long-running technical notebook for practical low-cost systems: composting toilets, experimental building methods, sailing projects, and the Minimus boats, all documented in the plain old personal-Web tradition.
Mike's Woodwork is a long-running personal project log full of boxes, furniture, jigs, tutorials, repairs, reclaimed wood, CNC experiments, and the kind of practical detail social media usually compresses away.
Thomas Tilley's project archive turns inexpensive Thai PVC water pipe into game controllers, sports equipment, furniture, projector mounts and increasingly elaborate experiments in physical computing.
DupontCastle.com follows a decades-long attempt to build a private castle, while also cataloging hundreds of castle-like structures across the United States.
A surviving LED Art page documents Turbulence, a four-foot acrylic sculpture that translated tiny air movements into changing red, green and blue light.
Cambridge Clarion documents a home-built parabolic solar kettle with measurements, failures, heat-loss estimates and enough engineering detail to show what real tinkering looks like.
The Ludens microhydro pages document a home-built power system from trench digging and PVC pipe bending to turbine design, concrete failures and improvised field engineering.
EarthbagBuilding.com documents the history, engineering and practical construction methods behind homes built from bags filled with soil, gravel and other materials.