- A working 3-D-printable gear set was shared on Thingiverse (thing:3575), marking an early milestone in open-source mechanical design.  
- OpenRAVE, an open-source motion-planning toolkit for robotics, was highlighted for its cereal-box-stacking demo and broader capabilities.  
- Discussion of the Stuxnet worm centered on why industrial control systems still rely on Windows and the scarcity of PLC programming expertise.  
- A list of industrial-security contacts (Ron Southworth, Eric Byres, Shawn Merdinger, et al.) was compiled to deepen community insight into SCADA vulnerabilities.  
- An Emotiv EPOC EEG headset was shown driving a WowWee Rovio telepresence robot, illustrating early consumer-grade brain–machine interfaces.  
- The possibility of routing tax-deductible donations through the 501(c)(3) “Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs” was raised to support projects like the open-source neurorighter neural-recording platform.  
- MITRE employees Jim Barkley and “Sam” were reported to be funded to work on the Open Human-Roadmap (ohroadmap) project, signaling institutional interest.  
- A wxPython/OpenGL “lolcad” prototype was debugged for canvas-resizing artifacts, with advice to re-invoke gluPerspective and glMatrixMode on every window-resize event.  
- H+ Summit LA 2010 was confirmed to be postponed from November to December, with the Eventbrite page still showing the original date.  
- A critique of closed-source hardware drivers cited fear of patent exposure as the primary barrier to open-sourcing.