Reading

• XKCD: A Thing Explainer word checker
• How to Build a Multimachine, website
• Free construction plans by Ana White
• Things you're allowed to do
• The Passive House Resource
• Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
• How to Build Your Own Living Structures
• How to Build With Gridbeam
• Land Institute: Perennial crops
• The Open Source Way
• Community Barriers to Entry Checklist
• Open Source barriers to entry, revisited: A tools perspective
• A Pattern Language - patterns
• The Timeless Way of Building
• The Oregon Experiment
• The Cluetrain Manifesto
• Cryptoparty Handbook
• Free Culture
• Internet Archive Architecture Folkscanomy
• Culture Breakers
• Toward Open Source Hardware
• Detailed Design for Assembly Guidelines
• Enzo Mari Autoprogettazione Mirror
• Five Gallon Bucket Hydroelectric Generator Build Manual
• Getting started with netduino
• Integrated Buildings The Systems Basis of Architecture
• Lessig Code v2
• Mini Maker Faire Playbook
• N55BOOK
• Solar Power In Building Design
• Space Grid Structures
• Michigan Home Built Vehicle Inspection
• Gridbeam Instagram
• The Rust Programming Language
• Permaculture Wikipedia
• Unix philosophy
• Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap - David J. Gingery
• Practical Action Knowledge Center
• Howtopedia
• Appropedia
• The Museum of Old Techniques
• Traditional Knowledge World Bank
• Primitive ways
• Rocket Mass Heaters: Superefficient Woodstoves YOU Can Build
• The Mythical Man-Month
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Business models for open source software
• Open Source Hardware Business Models
• Wiki for a better world
• Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology
• 1800 Mechanical movements, devices, and appliances
• 507 Mechanical Movements
• Totalism: Alike
• Connections by James Burke
• The Heathkit legacy
• Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation
• Communities of practice: learning meaning and identity
• Building successful communities of practice
• Cultivating communities of practice
• The law of leaky abstractions
• The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
• Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management, Presentation
• OpenStax
• A Gentle Introduction to Ted Nelson's ZigZag Structure
• Woodgears.ca
• How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
• Direct Use Of The Sun's Energy
• Recipes For Disaster
• Other Homes and Garbage, More Other Homes and Garbage
• Cardiac: CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation
• A Gestalt Framework for Virtual Machine Control of Automated Tools
• OpenSourceEcology: Worse is better
• The Secret Life of Machines
• Graphica Obscura: Collected computer graphics hacks
• Fab Modules: software to run any fab lab machine
• Machines That Make
• The Grammar of Ornament
• Calculus Made Easy
• Managers / Makers Schedules
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• I Am A Strange Loop
• Creating Passionate Users: Dignity is Deadly
• Groklaw: Legal research
• The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin ~ by Dr. Peter Salus
• The Sciences of the Artificial - Herbert A. Simon
• Control Structures for Programming Languages by David A Fisher

Research tools

• Unpaywall.org