This (by me, from 1999) remains mostly aspirational, sadly: https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/ https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/ "The OSCOMAK project

This (by me, from 1999) remains mostly aspirational, sadly: https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/ https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/ "The OSCOMAK project will foster a community in which many interested individuals will contribute to the creation of a distributed global repository of manufacturing knowledge about past, present and future processes, materials, and products." You may want to take a look at things related to "Open Manufacturing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_manufacturing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_manufacturing Or the maker movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture I can also wonder if there is more such information out there on the web in Chinese these days than English?