- A 1980 NASA study on “Advanced Automation for Space Missions” was circulated; chapters 4.3 and 4.4 detail taxonomies of manufacturing processes and the prospect of electronics fabrication on the Moon using in-situ resources.

- Participants debated the completeness of existing manufacturing-process taxonomies, noting that the Wikipedia version “kind of sucks” and pointing to the NASA document as a more rigorous reference.

- genehacker proposed a low-cost, open route to synthesizing long DNA strands by combining maskless array photolithography with an off-the-shelf DLP projector and microscope, claiming achievable feature sizes (~20 µm) competitive with commercial synthesizers (~16 µm).

- The projector-based DNA-synthesis scheme was linked to a 2004 patent on flow-cell reaction chambers (US patent id=YYIKAAAAEBAJ) and discussed as a way the community could “make Mycoplasma laboratorium before Craig Venter does.”

- Noisebridge’s “Hello World in Synthetic Biology” wiki page was shared as an introductory DIY guide for engineering DNA-based cellular behaviors.

- A Rosetta Design Group blog post on the computational design and engineering of an artificial O₂-transport protein was highlighted as an example of current protein-engineering capabilities.

- genehacker sketched plans for a kinematic-modeling program for a pocket calculator that would simulate springs, joints, and single-body dynamics—an effort to bring mechanical-design tools to ultra-portable hardware.

- The group lamented the continued absence of Venter’s long-promised synthetic Mycoplasma laboratorium and framed open-source hardware (DLP projector lithography) as a potential counter-move.