Show off (with humility) - Show others what you build. This can happen at personal or exhibition levels or through magazines and the internet. Show it to as many people as you can. On the one hand it gives you confidence towards your build and helps you connect with others. But the more important reason to do this is to receive "feedback". Designing in solitude is only designing for yourself and being ignorant of what others need. It would be to your benefit to get genuine feedback from people and iterate on your prototypes accordingly.

This is one the most fantastic places on the internet for people to start with if they are clueless as to what they want to build. They have simple making tutorials through comics and videos with such clarity that you need not even know any language to understand it.

No point if you don't document! The world of hobbyists and makers is build on the premise of sharing and helping. That cannot be possible if you don't document your project (however small it might be) for others to use, remix and reproduce. You could blog on your website, or use resources like 'Scratch' or find new and creative ways of sharing your fantastic ideas.

Show off (with humility) - Show others what you build. This can happen at personal or exhibition levels or through magazines and the internet. Show it to as many people as you can. On the one hand it gives you confidence towards your build and helps you connect with others. But the more important reason to do this is to receive "feedback". Designing in solitude is only designing for yourself and being ignorant of what others need. It would be to your benefit to get genuine feedback from people and iterate on your prototypes accordingly.

No point if you don't document! The world of hobbyists and makers is build on the premise of sharing and helping. That cannot be possible if you don't document your project (however small it might be) for others to use, remix and reproduce. You could blog on your website, or use resources like 'Scratch' or find new and creative ways of sharing your fantastic ideas.

This software platform called scratch is truly a creativity booster. Kids and adults alike can use it to make beautiful animated stories or even use for documentation and making tutorials. s4a.cat is a version of scratch which lets you go hardware by dragging and dropping scratch code and running on arduino in really the simplest of ways. A great way to be introduced to microcontrollers without having to go through the pain of deep understanding.

Teach and Mentor. Become a Resource - Don't keep your knowledge and expertise to yourself. Help others learn from you. Once you feel confident of your skills, mentors other teams, students to be able to do the same things. There are lots of people waiting for you out there who are not as fortunate as you to access the resources that you could. Become a resource yourself.

This is one of the most fantastic places on the internet for people to start with if they are clueless as to what they want to build. They have simple making tutorials through comics and videos with such clarity that you need not even know any language to understand it.