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According to this limb prosthetic, unless very different in technology, are exempt;

This section states that these devices are exempt from premarket approval or [WWW]510(k) requirements, except as provided in [WWW]21CFR890.9, which allows this exemption as long as the new device has "existing or reasonably foreseeable characteristics of commercially distributed devices within that generic type," it is intended for the same use and the same user type as existing products, and the device operates on the same fundamental scientific technology.

For the type of things you're looking for, I'd recommend LocalWiki. While so far it's been used mostly by communities vs municipalities, it includes robust permissions, is under active development, and is built w/ some nice geo-extensions for where that's applicable. It's very easy to get up and running and you could run a micro EC2 instance to test out for (practically) free.

LocalWiki is the outgrowth of the amazingly successful http://daviswiki.org/ which spawned http://wikispot.org/ Encouraging and supporting this type of local non-commercial wiki is great for any community.

And by the way, here is the source: http://slingshot.wikispot.org/Downloads/Source

You're well on your way to recreating Slingshot!

Anyhow, if you're looking at this as a learning experience, XNA seems to be the thing where you could put your skillset to work the fastest. Python also seems like a good choice, if you're willing to learn it. As for graphics/physics/whatever, there should be libraries to help you, and surely some other Slashdotter will drop a few names shortly.

I believe they mean Churn Butter by hand, which is what it is listed as on the original wiki that this one was lifted from.

I believe they mean Churn Butter by hand, which is what it is listed as on the original wiki that this one was lifted from.

Same here. In fact, that's one of the next skills I'm planning on writing up for the original wiki the content of this one was lifted from. Somehow it seems slightly perverse to think about posting photos of my nibs online.

As the linked to wiki indicates on the home page, they took a chunk of content from the more complete Wiki Spot Wiki of the same title. In fact, the owner of this wiki wanted to take the Wiki Spot Wiki's logo and everything. It would be nice if the Slashdot editors could give obsoleteskills.wikispot.org a little linkage love too, since I and several other wiki editors spent time writing the entries there, setting up photo shoots (note my 8 track of Monty Python) and basically creating content which was basically lifted for this wiki. Ah, well.