This is the reason I am hopeful with LLMs. Yes there are massive risks but I do not think the average person has ever been empowered by tech in quite this way. An LLM agent can write automation for much of home/farm/business hardware.

I live in a farm. I am software engineer and gave up city life few years ago. Now, all I dream of is automating little things in my chicken farm and growing the business. Not in the mechanical monstrous way that makes me hate eating meat. But a balance in between with actual daily physical work and care. And tiny little automation ideas. Measure food intake, an automatic weight check, door closer/opener, heating control... so many things. And I do not want to buy the best "Chicken Star 3000" model, I want to make these out of microcontrollers with tiny mechanical parts that I can assemble. AI helping me all the way.

I also have a small sewing machine. I want to get a larger one. I want to make "patch" clothes, jackets. I love them. From scrap clothes, etc. What a time to tinker!

Why would you want to hack a sewing machine?