• A complete Git mirror of the abandoned NanoEngineer-1 molecular-design codebase (332 k files) was created at http://diyhpl.us/cgit/nanoengineer/ to revive open-source nanotech CAD development.  
• Emokit, the reverse-engineered driver for Emotiv EPOC EEG headsets, was identified as the only route for non-research-license holders to obtain raw EEG data, with debate on whether to integrate it with OpenViBE/BCI2000 or wrap Emotiv’s proprietary SDK for an open-source school release.  
• NeuroSky was praised for publishing its full serial protocol (raw EEG plus algorithmic detections), highlighting the contrast with Emotiv’s closed licensing and underscoring the broader tension between open science and commercial restrictions in low-cost BCI hardware.  
• OpenCog received criticism for messy, boost-heavy code, slow builds, and a lack of documented real-world applications; project defenders argued that openness is preserved and pointed to forthcoming protocol docs for an HK-embodiment research front-end.  
• ROS (Robot Operating System) was presented as a practical, distributed message-subscriber architecture for robotics, with references to Willow Garage PR2 demos and discussion of goal-learning as a path to “weak” but useful AI.  
• The Audeo nerve-interface speech-recognition device (theaudeo.com) was noted as newly commercially available, continuing the channel’s interest in non-invasive neural control technologies.