• Cathal Garvey’s work on RepRap and DIYbio is highlighted; links to his letters site (letters.cunningprojects.com) and Twitter (@onetruecathal) were shared.  
• A new osseointegrated prosthesis-anchor technology from UCL is discussed as a “big deal,” with participants noting the engineering challenge is analogous to inserting a pipe into a pressurized balloon without popping it.  
• Ed Boyden’s lab is recruiting for high-voltage BCI debugging and microcontroller programming; an invitation for a multi-month on-site stint was circulated.  
• bkero announced a senior-design project to build a job-manager for a whole-genome sequencing cluster, prompting a brief debate on what such a scheduler adds beyond standard OS task switching.  
• kanzure is experimenting with gnuplot to visualize cost-per-kit vs. number-of-kits vs. total-funding curves for SKDB kit economics.  
• A brainstorming session produced dozens of candidate names for a for-profit SKDB spin-off—short-listed options included “Tangible Kits,” “KitGets,” “Deployables,” and “Matter Compiler Inc.”—with the constraint that the name must be uniquely Google-able.  
• genehacker offered to contribute a semiconductor-fab lab inventory to the SKDB dataset.  
• katsmeow shared rough calculations estimating a 2005-era U.S. government datacenter holding ~20 MB of data per human on Earth, powered by diesel and potentially a small nuclear plant.