- Andrew Hessel’s H+ Summit 2010 talk on synthetic biology and “carbon hype” was posted, framing synthetic biology as a counter-narrative to carbon-centric climate solutions.  
- BioCurious, a new Bay-Area DIYbio hackerspace, gained mainstream attention via Makezine and scheduled an FDA-entrepreneur meetup on 24 June 2010 to teach drug/device approval, offshore trials, and regulatory strategy.  
- Channel participants debated whether DIYbio can coexist with FDA oversight, suggesting tactics like distributing kits instead of finished devices and exploiting supplement loopholes to stay compliant.  
- SKDB, an open-source hardware package manager, adopted a Debian-style workflow: maintainers create git repos with CAD files (OpenSCAD, PySTEP, STEP/IGES) and define machine-readable interfaces for auto-linking assemblies; 1,000+ stub packages for Thingiverse designs were staged for dependency resolution.  
- A live “apt-get-then-print” demo was requested to stress-test SKDB: anyone with a MakerBot or RepRap was asked to download a package and immediately fabricate the part.  
- PythonOCC (Python bindings for Open CASCADE CAD kernel) was presented at SciPy 2010, but its crash-prone, non-Pythonic API sparked discussion on improving wrappers via Cython or SWIG.  
- Active reverse-engineering of STEP/IGES geometry interchange produced a minimal STEP sphere example and the nascent PySTEP parser (step.py) for collaborative refinement.  
- E-reader hacking dominated side threads: Nook’s 3G SIM was shown to allow limited free data via B&N proxy, prompting #nookdevs reverse-engineering efforts, while users compared Nook, Hanvon N516, and iRex devices and shared PDF-to-ePub conversion tips with Calibre.