The goal of this post is to provide a hub to discover some powerful internet resources out there.
For example here's one I wanted to share.
Open Source Ecology is a project for open source hardware that is significantly cheaper than retail costs. Some of the equipment include open source designs for CNC machines, windmills, tractors, plasma cutters, power supplies, motors, generators, and much more!
Everybody on Lemmy gets kinda weird and cagey about them for reasons I could not give less of a shit about, but I have a hopeful eye on everything FUTO is doing. Some of it's really not public-ready yet, but they seem like a good organization to me.