• A new user, NOMADICUS, arrived from #emokit and announced they are building a backyard fabrication shop from scrap, explicitly citing Dave Gingery’s “bootstrap a full machine shop from alley scraps” method as their inspiration.  
• The channel collectively pointed NOMADICUS to the gingery_machine Yahoo group and the openmanufacturing Google Group as additional communities for low-cost, open-source machine-shop development.  
• Utopiah shared a BrainBlogger article describing a memristor-based artificial brain prototype, illustrating ongoing interest in neuromorphic hardware among channel participants.  
• dbolser introduced CARMEN (www.carmen.org.uk) and its newly released Neurophysiology Data Translation Format (NDF) Toolbox, prompting comparison with the distributed neuro-imaging platform BrainVisa.  
• flamoto re-released “Telepathic Critterdrug,” an open-source artificial-life simulation featuring follow-cam, particle systems, and mutatable drug-like effects, available at http://arbornet.org/~flamoot/telepathic-critterdrug.html.  
• NOMADICUS contributed links to DIY resources: a home-built plasma-cutter guide (theplasmacutterman.com) and a large index of free junkyard fabrication plans (green-trust.org).  
• The entire channel was formally migrated from #hplusroadmap to ##hplusroadmap after Freenode staffer Martinp23 enforced the policy that unofficial projects use double-hash namespaces, with automatic forwarding set up.  
• kanzure proposed creating a wiki page to catalog “all of these crazy transhumanist community projects,” signaling an effort to preserve and organize the growing body of open-source transhumanist work discussed in the channel.