- Matt Moses released a fully printable motor on Thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:802) and has experimental casting and solenoid work, prompting discussion about open-source hardware replication.  
- RepRap achieved a working metal-extruder hot-end (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:920), moving closer to printing its own metal parts.  
- Saul Griffith’s “Growing Machines” thesis and companion “Tools to Make Almost Anything” list were circulated, cataloguing open-source fabrication gear from CNC mills to PCR thermocyclers.  
- A curated collection of 2009-era RSS feeds for IEEE journals and other technical sources was published at http://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/rss/, providing a snapshot of early open-access research tracking.  
- Kanzure reformatted and priced a perfusion-equipment BOM and an “ultimate tool-buying guide” in SKDB, aiming to turn Make Magazine wish-lists into structured, costed procurement data.  
- Discussion of von Neumann-style self-replication concepts resurfaced, with participants noting that modern proposals still rely on rare-earth magnets and other non-printable components.  
- Links to JHU robotic self-replication papers (https://custer.lcsr.jhu.edu/Publications#Robotic_Self-Replication) and microfluidics capillary-lithography papers were shared as background reading.