r/diyelectronics

Updated 2026-10-24

r/diyelectronics is a Home & Lifestyle community on Reddit with 394,608 members, ranking #66 of 1,465 in Home & Lifestyle. This subreddit is dedicated to both amateur and professional engineers that want to build cool stuff at home, challenge themselves to learn new technologies, learn from each others' designs, and showcase their side projects.

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How big is r/diyelectronics?

Created in 2016, r/diyelectronics has had over a decade to grow and is a large community by Reddit standards. Within Home & Lifestyle it ranks #66 of 1,465 communities we track — the top 4.5% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 538× the median Home & Lifestyle subreddit, which has 733 members. It is a work-safe community with no 18+ flag on Reddit.

For scale, the largest Home & Lifestyle community we track is r/LifeProTips with 23,071,815 members — roughly 58 times the size of r/diyelectronics. Reddit itself launched in 2005, so a subreddit created in 2016 sits in the middle wave of community building on the platform. Subscriber counts indicate reach, not activity — a large community can be quiet, and a smaller one busy. Open r/diyelectronics on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.

Members394,608
CategoryHome & Lifestyle
Rank in category#66 of 1,465
Created2016
Category median size733 members
Content ratingWork-safe (SFW)

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