Congratulations to Eric, Christ, Laura, and the whole Instructables team! Instructables, the world’s largest show and tell, has joined 3D-modeling powerhouse Autodesk.
Instructables was a great platform for our first how-tos, and we still enjoy posting there and entering the contests.
the whole team is staying on, our policies haven’t changed, you still hold copyright to your projects, we’ll still run awesome contests, and the Robot isn’t going anywhere. However, we’ll now have the resources to make some improvements to the site I know our authors and community will love.
Inside word is that Autodesk values the user experience over ad revenue. Cruising the site today yielded no ads, even with our little friend disabled. Instructables has taken some flack in recent years for aggressive advertising. It looks like that is on the way out.
We wish you success in the future, and look forward to the next contest with prizes like AutoCAD, Maya, and 3ds Max.
Maybe an “open source” Autocad?