- Esther Dyson’s article on DIYgenomics.org and the new NYC Quantified Self meetup signals rising mainstream adoption of citizen genomics and personal data tracking.  
- Extropy Institute’s early journal issues may still exist in print; an offer was made to digitize them on-site to preserve foundational transhumanist literature.  
- MakerBot clarified its open-source policy: personal replication is free, but commercial use of the trademark requires a license—contrasted with SparkFun’s earlier trademark clash with Sun over “SPARC.”  
- Noisebridge demonstrated that ordinary laser printers can pattern copper-clad Kapton film, dramatically simplifying DIY flexible-circuit fabrication without specialized solid-ink hardware.  
- A practical microfluidics tutorial covered PDMS molding, SU-8 photolithography, wax printing, Shrinky-Dinks, and paper-based devices, with links to open-access PDFs and step-by-step fabrication guides.  
- Concrete DIY microfluidic applications discussed include colorimetric assays, spiral/droplet PCR, optical/electrical cell counting, magnetic-bead DNA capture, and laser-actuated pumps/valves.  
- Participants organized a rapid scrape of the entire Royal Society archive (1665–present) during a temporary free-access window, with 200 GB of mirrored storage and metadata coordination already pledged.  
- The Livly project is effectively defunct; its founders have moved to venture-backed cancer-mouse work (“Immunepath”) and to steering the biohackerspace community toward the BioCurious lab.