TakeItApart

TakeItApart is a community website that enables its users to share photo and video disassembly guides with text descriptions.

TakeItApart is a community website where the world can share photo-driven disassembly guides. It is a place to see how to take apart everyday things, and to find things to do once inside. It is built for STEM education, and adaptable for new niches. A disassembly guide on TakeItApart includes step-by-step photographs of the disassembly process, along with text descriptions. Rich hover-over image annotations show users troublesome screws, microchip part numbers, and detailed locations. Users can carefully search for specific guides, or casually browse. For those with the urge to get out their screwdriver, it is a new community. Creative users can author their own disassembly guides by uploading photos, videos, descriptions, and annotations. Others can edit text, wiki-style, or fork guides in new directions. Many car jobs begin with lifting the hood, but branch out from there. TakeItApart follows the physical artifacts of history. With it we can repair, we can learn engineering and industrial design, we can reuse, and we can regain ownership of our things.