- A new “copyleft hardware” manifesto circulated: commercial-grade, non-DIY devices that explicitly invite manufacturers to clone and profit, contrasting with maker-centric projects like Arduino, RepRap, and Adafruit.  
- Hackerspaces-in-space efforts were noted: 757 Labs plans high-altitude balloon launches, while Thailand’s first hackerspace was announced.  
- Discussion of Austin’s “hackerspace within a hackerspace” and similar art-space-embedded labs raised questions about membership tiers and subsidized government real-estate (e.g., Dayton’s “Tech Town”).  
- A speculative BCI concept was floated: quantum-dot neural injectables that down-shift optical signals to microwave for external fractal-antenna readout, avoiding wired implants and IR attenuation.  
- A survey of modular construction systems (MakerBeam, Contraptor, OpenStructures, MicroRAX, Bosch Rexroth, GridBeam, Unistrut, etc.) was initiated to gather usage data and influence 80/20 Inc.  
- Wearable-computing thread: participants lamented the lack of consumer devices, considered audio-only UNIX-style interfaces for the blind, and noted mobile phones as the closest extant platform.  
- Links shared: Qi-hardware list debate on copyleft hardware, Eric Mika’s toy-EEG hacking guide, COMSOL materials CD offer, Google Fiber RFI map, and the Stack Exchange 2.0 roadmap plus open-source clone Shapado.