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[pixdamix]

It reminds me of a Marcin Jakubowski talk at Ted about "Open-Source blueprints for civilizations"[1]

From TED: Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).

[1]: http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html

[tsuraan → pixdamix]

The project's site is http://openfarmtech.org . I don't think they have their full 50 machines, but what they do have looks pretty interesting.

[BenSS → pixdamix]

I was thinking of the Global Villege construction set too, they've come a long way (good summary vid) http://vimeo.com/16106427