• Superkuh’s open notebook offers a complete, publicly documented route for synthesizing oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and an entire H5N1-preparedness file tree, providing one of the earliest open-source pandemic-response chemistry resources.  
• Participants outlined a low-cost plant-biotech pipeline: using wild-collected Agrobacterium to transform dandelions (Taraxacum officinale) into recombinant-protein factories, and a proposed coconut-water transfection method that lets plasmids enter plant nuclei directly for transient expression without lab-grade reagents.  
• Kanzure proposed replacing multi-kW pumps in micro-waterjet cutters with femtosecond-pulsed LEDs to create laser-induced cavitation micro-jets, aiming for desktop-scale precision machining.  
• Genehacker calculated that a 1 kWh EEstor ultracapacitor could power a rapid-fire plasma gun capable of thousands of short plasmoids or a few sustained ones, opening practical paths for EMP and directed-energy experiments.  
• The channel debated how to encode functional models in an open-source hardware database—whether to embed symbolic equations and bond-graph variables or rely on simpler unit-resolution and manual documentation—and showcased a live web editor (http://oshw.0xb5.org/) for managing projects, dependencies, and materials.  
• The adesign automated-design codebase is running an open-ended evolutionary experiment that keeps generating longer mechanical chains (e.g., “FOOTPAD DIAL MOTOR MOTOR PULLEY GENERATOR POTENTIOMETER MOTOR MOTOR”) without convergence, while API instability in the Lisp sources causes replication failures of earlier test cases.  
• Key resources linked include the CiteULike BCI paper reading group (http://www.citeulike.org/group/8132), Campbell’s pneumatic-bicycle and planetary-gear archives (http://epicycle.org), and the historic Zyvex mailing-list archive (http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Org/zyvexmail.txt).