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Subculture
See also: Maker culture
DIY as a subculture was brought forward by the punk movement of the 1970s.[23] Instead of traditional means of bands reaching their audiences through large music labels, bands began recording, manufacturing albums and merchandise, booking their own tours, and creating opportunities for smaller bands to get wider recognition through repetitive low-cost DIY touring. The burgeoning zine movement took up coverage of and promotion of the underground punk scenes, and significantly altered the way fans interacted with musicians. Zines quickly branched off from being hand-made music magazines to become more personal; they quickly became one of the youth culture’s gateways to DIY culture. This led to tutorial zines showing others how to make their own shirts, posters, zines, books, food, etc.
The terms “DIY” and “do-it-yourself” are also used to describe:
Self-publishing books, zines, doujin, and alternative comics
Bands or solo artists releasing their music on self-funded record labels.
Trading of mixtapes as part of cassette culture
The international mail art network which circumvents galleries and official art institutions by creating a precursor to social networking.
Homemade stuffs based on the principles of “Recycle, Reuse & Reduce” (the 3R’s). A common term in many Environmental movements encouraging people to reuse old, used objects found in their homes and to recycle simple materials like paper.
Crafts such as knitting, crochet, sewing, handmade jewelry, ceramics
Designing business cards, invitations and so on
Creating punk or indie musical merchandise through the use of recycling thrift store or discarded materials, usually decorated with art applied by silk screen.[24]
Independent game development and game modding
Contemporary roller derby
Skateparks built by skateboarders without paid professional assistance
Building musical electronic circuits such as the Atari Punk Console and create circuit bending noise machines from old children toys.
Modifying (“modding”) common products to allow extended or unintended uses, commonly referred to by the internet term, “life-hacking”. Related to jury-rigging i.e. sloppy/ unlikely mods
Hobby electronics or in amateur radio equipment producing.
DIY science: using open-source hardware to make scientific equipment to conduct citizen science or simply low-cost traditional science[25]
Using low-cost single-board computers, such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, as embedded systems with various applications
DIY bio
Use of a custom Linux distribution catered for a specific purpose.
Building a custom synthesizer.
Use of FPGAs.
Privately made firearms
Doing taxidermy of animals you went hunting or fishing for yourself….