- A Ginkgo Bioworks intern won an Awesome Foundation grant for “DIY-bioengineered inks,” prompting debate over whether paid industry interns can still claim the DIYbio label.  
- The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) was accepted into Google Summer of Code 2010, with discussion of improving Biopython and creating a new Python flux-balance-analysis (FBA) library.  
- RepRap developers reported first tests of a low-cost Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) printer, and Sebastien Bailard from reprap.org joined #reprap to discuss integrating RepRap, Contraptor, MakerBeam, and CubeSpawn parts into the SKDB package.  
- SXSW “Opening Hardware” meet-up photos and write-ups were circulated, featuring key open-hardware figures (Bunnie Huang, Mako Hill, Chris Anderson, Massimo Banzi) and Bug Labs’ claim of ≈ $50 M in funding.  
- A call for quick weekend projects yielded a list of 30 ATtiny85/45 ideas: low-frequency RFID emulation, SD-card audio players, minimalist oscilloscopes, and tiny head-mountable webcams.  
- Links to core organism suppliers (ATCC, DSMZ), vintage Radio Shack catalogs, Mozilla “Contacts in the Browser,” and Theano (deep-learning Python library) were shared as reference material.