• Zach Smith (a.k.a. Zack Hoecken), the sole developer behind Thingiverse, is enthusiastic about collaborating on an open-source packaging format for hardware designs and is willing to share CC-licensed content for further metadata enrichment.

• The channel is exploring how to represent assembly instructions and dependency relationships for open hardware; they reference a long Open Manufacturing Google Group thread on “recipe representation” as background reading.

• Genehacker is investigating whether any subset of Lego parts can generate enough mechanical force to grasp, assemble, and disassemble other Lego bricks, and suggests using the MLcad “make into step” feature to extract pictorial build instructions.

• Samrose and kanzure are coordinating backend work using Python tools (Mercurial, Hatta wiki) to mirror and extend the SKDB (Structured Knowledge Database) so that uploaded parts can be checked for self-assembly feasibility.

• Kanzure proposes a lightweight workflow: Zach exports Thingiverse’s CC designs, the community adds metadata (dependencies, assembly steps, interoperability info), and shell scripts prettify the dataset for broader open-manufacturing use.