• Samrose alerted kanzure to the W3C “Linking Open Data” mailing list (public-lod@w3.org) and a specific thread on dependency tracking among open datasets, noting parallels to kanzure’s YAML/Python dependency ideas for open-source hardware.  
• kanzure referenced a 1984 Analytical Biochemistry paper describing an ultra-cheap diode-based power supply for agarose and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, illustrating the channel’s habit of digging up vintage, low-cost lab techniques.  
• Discussion of a “fablab-like startup” model: Todd Huffman and Eric Hunting are exploring a Y-Combinator-style incubator focused on fablabs, aiming for self-replicating capabilities and open-source licensing while seeking non-Boston/NY/SF locations with cheap surplus equipment (e.g., Ohio’s “rust belt”).  
• kanzure outlined a Cygnus-style business plan: provide design consulting, custom hardware/software development, installation support, and open-source licensing for manufacturing automation, funded by client contracts and reinvested into an internal “superfablab” resource pool.  
• fenn and gene brainstormed low-infrastructure UAV package-delivery concepts: electric RC planes lowering cargo via cable, balloon-assisted skyhook variants, and historical 1930s “air mail” catapult systems, debating trade-offs between ground infrastructure, wind sensitivity, and kinetic energy dissipation.  
• LabAutopedia (labautopedia.org) was introduced as a community-curated knowledge base for laboratory automation, aligning with the channel’s goal of open, searchable scientific resources.  
• A tangent on file-system organization highlighted the tension between deep hierarchical trees and metadata-driven retrieval; kanzure proposed hiding folders except during active creation or repair, while fenn suggested locate/namazu search and context-tagged email as complementary tools.  
• fenn floated the idea of an open-source, CNC-lathe-produced modular food-container system to escape incompatible Tupperware product lines, estimating 0.2 mm polypropylene sheet as the target material.