I obsess over this concept. I am a robotics engineer and my dream is local manufacturing with small DIY machines. But it's a lot of work! When I have a little m

I obsess over this concept. I am a robotics engineer and my dream is local manufacturing with small DIY machines. But it's a lot of work! When I have a little more time I want to teach community robotics classes and build machines that makes shoes and hot food and other important goods, designed and built as a community. I designed a cheap large format laser cutter [1][2] and now I am designing shoes that can be made with a 3D printer, the laser cutter, a sewing machine, and some basic tools. [3] [1] https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1480332181285212160 https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1480332181285212160 [2] https://github.com/tlalexander/large_format_laser_cutter https://github.com/tlalexander/large_format_laser_cutter [3] https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1489519692712538113 https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1489519692712538113