The inventive members of the Instructables community and the talented emerging filmmakers in Howcast’s Emerging Filmmakers Program are teaming up! The inventors provide the fabulous idea and the filmmakers provide the fantastic production skills, and voila: videos are born that capture the Instructables step-by-step guides we all know and love. The first batch are live and the results are in – inventors and filmmakers make a great team! Check out How To Make LED Floaties, How To Recycle Refrigerator Magnets, and How To Make a Tennis Ball Tripod. They’re live on Howcast and on Instructables.

Now we’re ready to tackle more.

Are you an Instructables inventor who wants to see their idea given the Howcast video treatment? Are you an emerging filmmaker with the craftiness to take on an Instructables project? Or are you the best of both worlds: an Instructables inventor and filmmaker who can pull off any DIY spot?

Here’s what we’re looking for and how it works:

1) Instructables Inventor? Submit the URL of your Instructable for consideration to Howcast. Our editorial team will review it, with various criteria in mind, including ease of production and originality, and if selected, we’ll get to work on the script. You’ll receive $50 for your idea, and a complimentary video (you helped create!) that you can embed right in your Instructable guide and on your personal website. Your Instructable guide will also be linked to on Howcast.com and anywhere the video is distributed on Howcast’s distribution network. Want to throw your hat (er, idea) into the ring? Email diyproject@howcast.com with the links to your project.

2) Crafty Emerging Filmmaker? We’ll pair you up with the perfect DIY topic to shoot and edit. Once your video goes live, you’ll be accepted into Howcast’s Emerging Filmmakers Program (which you can learn all about here). You’ll also earn $50, the opportunity for revenue sharing, and your video will be seen by audiences on Howcast.com, Instructables.com, and across Howcast’s distribution network. Email diyproject@howcast.com and tell us about your DIY prowess. (Bonus points if you know how to use a soldering gun!)

3) Instructables Inventor with Filmmaking Skills? Well, aren’t you perfect? Seriously, kudos! We’d love to work with you. You can score the benefits of both 1 and 2. You can make a video of your own idea, which means you’ll earn $100, the opportunity for revenue sharing, wide distribution, a video to snazz up your Instructables guide, and linkbacks! You can also earn more money by shooting videos of other inventors’ Instructables ideas. Sound good? Want to learn more? Email diyproject@howcast.com.

We’re can’t wait to make stuff with you!