• A participant will receive a neodymium-coated, gold-and-silicone magnetic fingertip implant in Mannheim on 22–23 September to gain an electromagnetic sense; the implant will be MRI-incompatible and the procedure will use local cooling plus optional metamizol for pain.

• Reverse-engineering of the Emotiv EPOC SDK yielded a plaintext commit hash (2cd33f7a49ac1b798711cfe9000803bc) found near an S-box in the device-simulator framework, pending hardware delivery for verification.

• The channel criticized STL files as the “compiled binaries” of digital fabrication: they discard parametric, solid-modeling data (B-rep, CSG, NURBS) and make later edits or high-fidelity reuse impossible.

• Participants advocated storing game art and real-world object libraries in parametric, CSG-based formats so assets can be regenerated at any future polygon budget or fabrication resolution without manual remodeling.

• Epitron proposed creating a public, reusable database of parametric “real-world Things” that game designers could assemble like LEGO, contrasting with current repositories that only provide frozen STL meshes.

• The group discussed Intentional Software (Charles Simonyi) as a “language workbench” that stores program intentions separately from generated code, enabling round-trip editing and automatic regeneration—suggested as a paradigm for procedural asset generation.

• Kanzure is developing an open-source Python CAD kernel focused on parametric, source-level geometry and sought naming suggestions for the project.

• Upcoming public demo: kanzure and dave will present “stuff” at the Southwest Research Institute Manufacturing Conference on 15 September 2010.