• Cross-polarized 3-D LCD hack: adding a second, non-pixelated liquid-crystal layer (or cheap cellophane) to an ordinary LCD enables stereoscopic output viewable with circular-polarizer glasses, trading half horizontal resolution for ultra-low-cost 3-D.

• SKDB (Structured Knowledge Database) is maturing as an “apt-get for hardware”: users can now run `sudo python clients/skdb-get.py lego` to fetch and visualize Lego assemblies, and contributors are encouraged to clone the `lego` or `screw` packages as templates; the next milestone is a direct export pipeline (STL → SkeinForge → Replicator-G → Makerbot) so that `apt-get install washing-machine` becomes a literal command.

• Open-source gas chromatography gap: no open-hardware GC exists; Vernier’s Mini-GC is the only low-cost option. The community points to OpenWetWare’s open spectrophotometer as a related citizen-science instrument and calls for an open GC project.

• Molecular-manufacturing governance debate: citing CRN policy papers and Ralph Merkle’s “safe containment” proposals, participants warn that nanotech replicators could be classified “born secret” like nuclear designs. Counter-strategy is to accelerate open publication faster than regulators can react, assuming a single leaked torrent makes proliferation unstoppable.

• Post-scarcity farming feasibility: a 6-acre Alabama plan (2 acres fruit trees, 2 acres conventional garden, 2 acres hydroponics) is dissected for caloric yield, energy draw, and realistic population support before scaling to neighborhood or city level.

• Open-source radio stack: SoftRock SDR kits (schematics fully open) are sold out; MIT’s cochlea-inspired broadband antenna research is highlighted; OpenBTS was field-tested at Burning Man (attendance suggested as legitimate R&D tax write-off). Long-term vision is a modular, FPGA-centric handset with SDR covering all commercial bands up to 2.4 GHz—an unlocked “last phone you’ll ever need.”

• Hosting crisis for OpenFarmTech.org: Marcin Jakubowski’s open-source farm-equipment project needs stable hosting after repeated single-server outages; offers include a Bay-Area colo box (50 Mb/s unmetered for non-profits) and an Oregon State University Open Source Lab gigabit/4 TB VM.

• High-performance home-lab recipe: dual-quad Xeon, 16 GB RAM, Intel X25-E SLC SSDs (claimed to outrun six SAS drives), Chenbro 3U chassis with 20 SATA bays (~$300 on Newegg).

• RepRap ecosystem update: Michigan group counts ~70 members and ~10 working Darwin/Mendel printers; PLA filament eliminates heated bed requirement, reducing warping; Vimeo video (http://vimeo.com/6983001) shows Mendel in action, with tool-changing upgrades in development.

• Key links and papers: 2008 Cardozo Law Review nanotech-governance paper (http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/cardozo.pdf), 30-generation mutation-rate Science abstract, Chemogenesis web-book (meta-synthesis.com), OmegaGarden rotary hydroponics (omegagarden.com), and kanzure’s resurrected site (http://heybryan.org).