- Emokit, an open-source Python library released by Daeken, decrypts raw EEG data from the Emotiv EPOC headset and provides real-time OpenGL visualization, sparking a surge in DIY BCI experimentation and eBay purchases of used headsets.  
- The legal status of Emokit’s reverse-engineering was debated: participants argued that US interoperability exemptions may protect the project, but vendors could still attempt DMCA takedowns.  
- Kanzure introduced “lolcad,” an embryonic MIT-licensed CAD kernel in Python that exports NURBS geometry to STEP files, aiming to give the community a scriptable, open alternative to proprietary solid-modeling suites.  
- Raymond McCauley’s citizen-science platform DIYgenomics.org was featured in Nature Medicine, signaling mainstream recognition of grassroots genomics research.  
- The SETI Institute quietly open-sourced part of the Allen Telescope Array’s signal-processing stack under the “setiQuest” initiative, creating a new target for open-source radio-astronomy contributions.  
- A Hong Kong OpenCog project announced plans to integrate low-cost NeuroSky EEG headsets “just to make it sexy,” prompting skepticism about hardware gimmicks versus software substance.  
- Open Science Summit 2010 videos were posted on Fora.tv, and Meredith Patterson delivered a “Biopunk Manifesto” in full-length black leather, reinforcing the channel’s alignment with open-science and biohacker culture.  
- A design-game concept inspired by Minecraft and Noctis was proposed that would use CSG/NURBS and L-systems instead of voxels to procedurally generate galaxies and everyday objects, linking to earlier #hplusroadmap discussions on auxons and self-replicating machinery.