- An open-source “myostatin project” is being scoped, aiming to translate DIY biology into a concrete, reproducible protocol for muscle-enhancement research.  
- Participants compared commercial CFD-ACE+ to free SciPy/NumPy-based CFD tools, and linked a review paper on continuous-flow microfluidic separation as a practical use-case for open-source simulation.  
- A “smart wet-lab bench” concept was outlined: camera-based pipetting replay, RFID reagent warnings, and eye-tracking HUD overlays to prevent microscope field double-counting.  
- A sub-$10 USB PCR thermocycler design was sketched—spiral microfluidic heater/Peltier zones, straw-shaped gel cartridge, UV-LED/photodiode readout—contrasted with bead-array alternatives and debated against closed-source efforts in the “cheap-pcr-development” Google Group.  
- DIY-CNC hardware recommendations included Gecko stepper drivers, Mesa FPGA cards for EMC2 real-time control, and micro-machining 0.05-inch brass MakerBot nozzles with #72–#76 micro-drills.  
- A lexical parser idea was proposed to mine Web-of-Science citation networks for title keywords like “direct,” “evidence,” and “regulates,” aiming to surface “islands of regularity” and accelerate literature discovery.  
- Geo-engineering proposals for new landmasses included geopolymer-cement structures reinforced with hemp or marine bio-fibers and pneumatically stabilized floating platforms.  
- Long-term open-transhumanist hardware roadmap targets were set: an integrated desktop DNA synthesizer + sequencer “nuclear-family” device and scalable in-vitro artificial-meat bioreactors.