Unfortunately, it means that the overall wiki is not that useful until they get fairly far back in the chain. If all I've got is a pointy rock and some animal hide, having the blueprints for an industrial robot is not helping.
It's an industrial robot! It's designed to gradually flatten this animal hide!
I'd like to see a beta community for this project. I think there's a few places where people have built some of the things, but having a community centered around building these things and developing new ones would be awesome.
In fact, I could see it being a kind of educational thing/time share. Some people I know would love to be a part of it, even if they aren't there all the time. They'd rent out cabins or houses in the area and participate for part of the year. Perhaps during the fall, you'd have an educational program where everyone from teenagers to engineering students to corporate teams in need of morale building come down and build stuff, operate the equipment, use the truck to bring in firewood, that sort of thing.
Using money made from the renters and guests, the community would get the outside stuff it needs and expand the materials it uses.
I could even see shorter events where people come in for a weekend and make, like, a flashlight out of raw ore and get to keep it.
I'm fantasizing now, but I'd put it some place in BC, Canada so you can bring people up from Seattle / west coast in general- lots of potential customers there. You'd get storms and limited sunlight, but I think that makes it a good place- harsh, but habitable. If the tools work there, they'll work most places.
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