Thankfully for those of us looking to learn, YouTube is now awash in makers regularly posting new videos. Through their efforts we can learn new techniques/tips/tricks, gain insights into tools and materials we're unfamiliar with, and just plain get inspired.

What's different about YouTube versus a DIY television show is that these YouTube makers frequently do not edit out their mistakes. When you see one of these guys or gals screw up, then backtrack and talk you through how to correct their mistakes, that is a valuable learning experience too—and provides the helpful honesty we often can't get from a TV program.

Keeping track of all these folks can be tough. We recommend you subscribe to their individual channels, but for those of you who don't have the time to monitor every single one, we've gathered their recent updates here on a single page. (If you've got a favorite maker you think we should add, please let us know in the comments!)

Creativity Exercise

Jimmy DiResta is one of those guys that not only uses tools as tools, but often uses tools as his raw material. In this exercise in creativity, he makes not one, but ten unique beer bottle openers, all of them quickly fabricated from an unlikely assortment of shop leftovers:

Transforming Furniture

Remember Izzy Swan's amazing folding table from earlier this year? He's updated the design, halving the weight, refining the knockdown size and getting the fold-up time down to just five seconds:

Beaming with Pride

Jesse de Geest, a/k/a The Samurai Carpenter, is in the midst of setting up a new shop and had an issue to deal with: The sagging ceilings that are the result of a 24-foot span. To solve the problem, de Geest went big n' burly and recruited a gang of helpers:

Adjustable Furniture

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Matthias Wandel makes an adjustable, knock down rolling desk that goes from couch height to standing desk height.

Shop Storage

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Frank Howarth adds some much-needed shop storage by creating high-up shelf units that hang on French cleats.

Two-Tool Project

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No fancy tools? No problem: Steve Ramsey shows you how to build a bed frame using nothing more than a circular saw and a drill.

Shop Tip

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Marc Spagnuolo, a/k/a The Wood Whisperer, shows you a simple trick for avoiding tearout on the table saw, even if you don't have a zero-clearance insert:

Basic Construction

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For the past several weeks, April Wilkerson has been walking you through building an addition onto her shop: First she poured the concrete slab, then she framed out the structure, and now she's onto the trim and insulation.

DIY Router Jig

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Continuing his tradition of teaching you to save money in your shop via DIY, Jay Bates reveals the design and construction of his Universal Router Edge Guide and Mortise Jig.

Money-Saving Shop Air Filtration

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Also in the saving money vein is David Picciuto, who shows you a quick, sub-$30 DIY alternative to buying a $370 air filtration system.

Domestic Furniture

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Alaskan homesteader Ana White completes a two-part project, first walking you through how she built the base for a farmhouse table, then finishing it up with the top and aprons.

Demystifying Tech

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For those of you makers that are good with wood but intimidated by tech, Bob Clagett has posted a Maker 101 episode that demystifies Arduino.

One from the archives: 

Flattening Boards at the Hand Tool School

As The Renaissance Woodworker, Shannon Rogers is one of the leaders in the movement of makers who forego power tools in favor of hand tools. And sometimes hand tools are the only available option, like when you need to flatten a board that exceeds the width of your jointer. So let's say you flatten one side of a wide board with a hand plane—now how do you get the other side parallel to the first? Here Rogers shows you the chamfer trick: