- Capillary-force lithography was proposed as a bench-top alternative to clean-room lithography for microfluidics, with participants describing how nail-polish or Sharpie-drawn masters can be used to mold UV-curable polymers into sub-100 µm channels without specialized equipment.  
- A 1967 NASA report on a pneumatic stepper motor was cited as prior art that could undermine later fluidic-actuator patents, and the group revisited a once-classified DIY acoustic gyroscope sensitive enough to measure Earth’s rotation as a low-cost substitute for MEMS gyros.  
- The channel dissected PCR-based gene-synthesis workflows, concluding that overlap-extension PCR from 40-oligo libraries can bypass nucleotide-by-nucleotide assembly, but that “n-x” side-reaction products—not incomplete couplings—are the dominant chemical defect and remain poorly characterized in the literature.  
- A public collection of open-access microfluidics papers (http://heybryan.org/books/papers/microfluidics/) and a nascent wiki on DIY DNA synthesis (http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/DNA_synthesizer) were shared, alongside links to laser-assisted nanodroplet PCR that completes amplification in ~6 minutes.  
- Participants compared maskless photolithographic DNA synthesis platforms, favoring DLP mirror arrays over LCDs for speed and contrast, and floated unconventional chemistries such as in-vivo “writozymes,” Miller-Urey spark synthesis, and uranium-redox flow batteries using depleted uranium electrodes.  
- Shear-thickening colloidal silica in polyethylene glycol was identified as a route to stab-resistant Kevlar, with commercial sources and home-lab recipes debated, while a freely downloadable U.S. street map was noted as a resource for open logistics and routing projects.