Merge pull request #173 from jeffeb3/feature/about-updates

Updating the links in about, adding a CONTRIBUTING page, and linked t…

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+## How to contribute
+
+Sandify grows from community contributions. We'd love to collaborate with you. Here are some ways we
+can improve together:
+
+### Share Patterns
+
+Even though we've spent a lot of time developing sandify, the patterns it can create suprise even
+us. If you have used sandify to make a pattern, please share it, and share how it was done. We get
+motivated seeing the impacts. Other users get inspired.
+
+### Report Issues
+
+Report bugs, feature requests, errors in the [issue
+tracker](https://github.com/jeffeb3/sandify/issues). We can't test every scenario in every release
+on every system. Many of the best ideas for features have come from issue requests.
+
+### Contribute Code
+
+Sandify has never been a one person effort. @jeffeb3 owns the project and guides the effort, but
+most of the code has been written and rewritten by contributors. It is a pleasure to
+work on, and we welcome collaboration.
+

src/features/app/Footer.js

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           </p>
         </div>
 
+        <div>
+          <h2>Instructions</h2>
+          <p>
+            Part of the fun of Sandify is playing it like you would a xylophone.
+            <br/>
+            Try it out first. The goal is to make it easy to make your first pattern by just clicking and scrolling, finding something you like.
+            <br/>
+            Check out <a href="https://github.com/jeffeb3/sandify/wiki">the wiki</a> for some features that you might miss the first time through.
+          </p>
+        </div>
+
         <div>
           <h2>Sand Machine</h2>
           <p>Anything that uses gcode can be used with Sandify. But the machine this was designed for is the ZenXY from V1Engineering.com.</p>
           <p>
             <a href="https://docs.v1engineering.com/zenxy/">ZenXY on V1Engineering.com</a>
-            <br />
-            <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2477901">ZenXY Thingiverse Page</a>
           </p>
           <p>
             ZenXY was inspired by the awesome Sisyphus kinetic art table by <a href="https://sisyphus-industries.com/">Sisyphus Industries</a>, which is also now supported.
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         <div>
           <h2>Github</h2>
           <p>Sandify is hosted on Github <a href="https://github.com/jeffeb3/sandify">here</a>. Please post any problems, feature requests or comments in our <a href="https://github.com/jeffeb3/sandify/issues">issue tracker</a>.</p>
-          <p>Sandify is a community project. We want and need developers. <a href="https://github.com/jeffeb3/sandify/wiki#developer-info">Help Sandify</a>.</p>
+          <p>Sandify is a community project. We want and need collaborators. <a href="https://github.com/jeffeb3/sandify/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">Help Sandify</a>.</p>
         </div>
 
         <div>