- A $90 three-axis positioning stage built from foamboard was shared (MIT project, no design files yet).  
- A $47 k “Sirona inLab MC XL” mini-CNC lathe/mill used in a home dental lab was described: ±25 µm precision, Ethernet/Wi-Fi, but locked to single-use proprietary parallel-port dongles.  
- Discussion of an abandoned large-format HP inkjet printer found roadside as potential salvage for maker projects.  
- DIYbio governance debate: frustration with Tito’s planned community survey; call for an open-source, transparent alternative and reference to Debian Social Contract as a model.  
- Rice cookers and bread machines were praised as near-autonomous “from-scratch” cooking appliances, with rice-cooker parts noted as simple enough to replicate on a RepRap.  
- A draft paper on the Unix philosophy (Markus Schnalke) was linked: http://tmp.marmaro.de/unix-phil_draft.pdf.  
- A broken global hacker-space map (pumpingstationone.org) was noted.