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Eric J. Wilhelm, Ph.D. is the Co-founding partner of Squid Labs and CEO of Instructables. Instructables is a website, created by Eric in 2005, specializing in user-created and uploaded do-it-yourself[…]

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Instructables.com founder Eric Wilhelm talks about how his project sharing wesbite can have an impact on education.

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