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I think KVR posted this on another website, but didn't see it in the search function.  I always thought this idea was cool, in fact, I've taken a couple of welding classes at the local community college because I wanted to build the basic module and mess around with this. As always, I have more ideas than time....

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. See a working list of GVCS machines and their breakdown into modules - GVCS Machines and Modules. The name, GVCS, has been coined for the first time in 2008 - at a lecture at the University of Missouri, Columbia

here's a TED talk with the guy who came up with the concept...

http://www.ted.com/t.....n//id/1122