• A wearable neuro-biofeedback system was proposed that would combine EEG, heart-rate and other physiological sensors with chemical, magnetic or ultrasonic “gas-pedal” actuators to reduce “mental inertia” and accelerate task focus, while participants warned about the difficulty of finding reliable attention markers and the risk of over-focusing.

• The Cornell KMODDL kinematic models library—containing 200 fundamental mechanisms, CAD files and simulation movies—was highlighted as a resource for reverse-engineering class projects, and the group debated whether all mechanical designs can be reduced to a small set of “prime” mechanisms or inevitably grow into irreducible complexity.

• Fenn called for a declarative kinematics-description language and compiler that could automatically generate control code for arbitrary mechanisms (robot arms, Stewart platforms, prosthetic limbs), noting that OROCOS abandoned this goal for Cartesian and serial-arm cases.

• Open-source hydraulic design for exoskeletons and androids was discussed: participants sought a small, inexpensive, proportional hydraulic valve that converts low-power electrical signals into precise fluid flow, brainstorming micro-compressors, automotive boost-controller valves and pressure ratings up to 23 000 psi.

• Gene described a ME302 assignment to redesign a consumer product into a fully-automatic, 3-D-printed catapult that launches plastic “pigs,” and later brainstormed with kanzure a fully automated “pig launcher” that would 3-D-print pigs from raw material and then catapult them, weighing cartridge-feed mechanisms against funnel systems and selective-laser-sintering hardware.

• An “internet obituary aggregator” concept was proposed: a public-key-anonymous system that would notify communities when open-source maintainers die and archive or redistribute orphaned code and hardware projects.

• DIY neuro-hacking resources were shared: kanzure scraped the Yahoo group “bavariancyclistneurohackers,” posting DIY CES and electrode-construction guides at http://heybryan.org/books/Biology/neuro/html/, and first-hand reports on brain stimulation with infrared LEDs were discussed along with offers to help build an open-source rTMS device.

• The group debated the desirability of converting the galaxy into computronium; kanzure argued that “reality is the most optimal way of doing things,” while others countered that virtualized existence could be more efficient for specific goals such as computation or security.

• Gene claimed to have designed a paper-based self-replicating “virus” as a real-world meme experiment, and kanzure shared his short story “Meme Trainers,” which fictionalizes the deliberate engineering and weaponization of cultural memes.

• A curated index of transhumanist projects was requested; kanzure pointed to the dormant Roadmap wiki page (http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Roadmap) as the closest existing resource, and UtopiahGHML suggested a prediction-market-style evaluation system.