Yeah, I've wanted to make something similar It would be cool if the front-end might looked like a Star Trek TNG replicator. I wrote about a related idea here,

Yeah, I've wanted to make something similar It would be cool if the front-end might looked like a Star Trek TNG replicator. I wrote about a related idea here, expanding on the idea to include an actual internet of things in boxes: http://pdfernhout.net/post-scarcity-princeton.html#Princeton_University_Freecycle_Transportation_Network_--_an_internet_of_physical_packages http://pdfernhout.net/post-scarcity-princeton.html#Princeton... I'd also like something for storing and retrieving lots of different types of LEGO. Related prior work: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kay/pln/ http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kay/pln/