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It doesn't answer your question, but the Toaster Project book explores the difficulty of making even relatively simple modern objects from raw materials. http:
by __d 5y ago
It doesn't answer your question, but the Toaster Project book explores the difficulty of making even relatively simple modern objects from raw materials.
http://thetoasterproject.org/ http://thetoasterproject.org/
- qbilius 5y agoCool! This project also had a link to an essay "I, Pencil" [0] on the difficulty of producing a pencil (discussed on HN previously as well [1]). That HN discussion also had a link to the Open Source Ecology project [2] that seems somewhat relevant as well. [0] https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980 [2] https://wiki.opensourceecology.org https://wiki.opensourceecology.org