• The group debated the merits of mobile vs. fixed-location Fab Labs; a CBA trailer-based lab from 2007 was cited as cramped and incomplete, while Germany’s first Fab Lab at RWTH Aachen was announced.  
• Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) were discussed as a route to autonomous production: multiple CNC machines plus robots could take CAD files for an “Iron Man suit” and mill/assemble all parts without refixturing, guided by a shared metrology frame.  
• Reverse electroplating (electrochemical machining) was proposed as a low-cost, high-precision CNC technique: a blunt dispensing needle or hypodermic tube delivers electrolyte while low-voltage/high-current etches arbitrary shapes, also recovering gold and other metals.  
• Safety and practicality concerns were raised about dissolving microchips for gold recovery—participants noted the low yield (~$600/oz gold), generation of toxic heavy-metal waste, and potential EPA/mercury hazards.  
• Open-source hardware milestones were shared: Makezine’s 2009 “Open Source Hardware” summary and Theo Gray’s electrochemical-machining article in Popular Science were referenced.  
• NASA/ISS inkjet printing was confirmed to work in micro-gravity with only a moisture-resistant coating on electronics, validating inkjet orientation-independence.  
• The SKDB project received several commits improving GraphSynth integration, fixing XYZ export, GXML shape output, and variable-type handling.  
• Miscellaneous links: UKY FMS primer, mobile Fab Lab Wikipedia page, Rutgers ferroelectricity review, and a humorous “cardboard vampire” article from Improbable Research.