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Welcome to DIY@ADC!

We’ve launched this portal for the benefit of the Do-It-Yourselfers who use AutomationDirect products for their ingenious projects.  We’ve known for years that DIYer’s use our products, and we suspect we know the reasons - the well-documented, easy to use products?  Maybe it’s the excellent tech support? Maybe it’s just the great prices!

Whatever the reason, we are honored that you chose to use our products, and we want to help.  This site is dedicated to DIYers everywhere, and - in fact - this site itself is going to be as DIY as possible, with most of the content hosted in forum or blog format (like this post).

Enjoy!

Have a DIY project you wish to share?

Share your projects with other DIYers out there.  Maybe they’ll have an idea for an improvement.  Check-out all the cool projects here.

Need some incentive? At the very least, we’ll send you some free stuff.  In-depth articles with pictures will receive a store credit to use at AutomationDirect.com

Click here for instructions….

Sites for Do-it-yourselfers

We’ve noticed several DIY websites out there, If you know of other good sites, please leave a comment.

  1. 5min.com
  2. www.instructables.com
  3. doityourself.com
  4. www.makezine.com

We’ve also seen nifty project videos on YouTube, and we’ll be linking to lots of those also.