Windsor County, Vermont -- To get to Jaimie Mantzel's home you'll need your hiking shoes. He lives deep in the New England wilderness, beyond a grassy field, past a concrete tunnel, a pond and deep forest. Near the end of the journey, you hang on to a rope to hoist yourself up a steep hill. And there it is: a colony of hand-built structures clustered around a four-story-high geodesic dome in the middle of a verdant clearing -- a cross between Tolkien's Middle-earth and a science fiction robot fantasy.
There's a lumber mill -- also built from scratch -- that Mantzel uses to make his own wooden planks from the trees that dot the landscape, a smaller geodesic dome that houses a spring for water, and a large workshop called the "Banana Building." That's where Mantzel keeps his giant six-legged robot.
By: Geeta Dayal, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/09/worlds-most-wired-toymaker
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