- A new open-access paper-sharing mailing list was launched at http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/papers to decentralize scientific literature distribution.  
- Participants explored modeling embryogenesis as a programmable system, inspired by a Science paper on light-sheet microscopy of zebrafish development, with the goal of “growing form x” from a defined genetic circuit.  
- The community compared three models of makerspaces: corporate pay-per-use TechShops, university FabLabs, and European community-run hackerspaces, while kanzure offered a 500 GB drive to archive FabLab git repositories.  
- genehacker reported RepRap part-printing progress and linked Makani Power’s airborne wind-energy concept—6 MW from a 747-scale kite and 10 kW from a piano-sized wing—while fenn circulated David MacKay’s free energy-assessment book at http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair.  
- Security debates covered TPM chips, potential Chinese hardware backdoors, and the Swedish Pirate Bay trial, highlighting prosecutors’ failure to grasp decentralized tracker architecture and the rapid growth of the Pirate Party into Sweden’s second-largest youth political movement.  
- DIYbio’s ambiguous legal status was questioned, noting that iGEM 2009 explicitly barred amateur teams for safety and grant-compliance reasons, while community labs in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York were already sharing gel boxes, power supplies, and microfuges.  
- A low-cost DNA-distribution scheme was proposed: place the entire BioBricks library on a single high-copy plasmid, transform E. coli, and mail the strain on filter paper to bypass commercial synthesis costs.  
- Open-source hardware discussions included repurposing Epson inkjet heads as microfluidic dispensers, an ultrasonic micropipette method for picoliter droplet deposition, and the idea of printing sacrificial ice-dot arrays for low-temperature polymer or ceramic molding.