• High-altitude airborne wind power was proposed as potentially cheaper than coal or natural gas, with participants exploring how to automate the design of such systems while encoding real-world failure modes—storms, ice, vibration-induced part loss, turbine-blade abrasion—that are usually learned only through human experience.

• Bond graphs and linear graphs were identified as the core mathematical framework for automatically extracting state-space equations from arbitrary machine designs; lecture notes and tutorials on deriving these equations from energy-storage elements (I’s and C’s) were circulated to support the effort.

• A long-term open-source biology goal was articulated: build a DNA/GNA synthesizer capable of producing 31 Mbp genomes in one run, ultimately to synthesize and boot the 1.08 Mbp Mycoplasma laboratorium genome inside engineered bacteria.

• DIY chemical synthesis discussions centered on obtaining GNA phosphoramidite precursors; the 1997 patent US 5,663,338 was cited as a detailed synthetic route for O6-benzylguanine derivatives, while participants compared Wolfram Alpha, ChemSpider, Wikipedia, and Google Scholar for chemical data retrieval.

• Practical barriers to amateur chemistry were highlighted—bulk purchases of acetone or perchlorates trigger DEA scrutiny, suppliers require business addresses—prompting suggestions to relocate to less-regulated jurisdictions like Brazil and to explore desktop “universal chemical constructors” using microfluidic distillation, centrifuge-based Downs cells, and bacterial fermentation to bypass restricted precursors.