- The open-source nanotech CAD package NanoEngineer-1 was rescued from a broken git repo and is now mirrored at http://diyhpl.us/cgit/nanoengineer; it runs on Ubuntu after installing python-qt4-gl but still crashes when drawing atoms due to QtOpenGL exceptions.  
- Robert Freitas’ “Nanofactory Collaboration” roadmap—projecting ≈ $900 M over 16 years to achieve positionally-controlled diamond mechanosynthesis—was debated; participants argued that small-scale, low-cost demos are essential to unlock private funding before the $100 M/yr phase.  
- A comprehensive, <$500 open-source lab-equipment BOM and protocol list is now available at http://diyhpl.us/cgit/skdb/plain/doc/BOMs/diybio-equipment.yaml, while http://bit.ly/diybionews aggregates current DIYbio experiments and results.  
- The “Biotic Games” paper (Riedel-Kruse Lab, 2011) was circulated; it describes paramecia-controlled video games as an engaging entry point for micro-fluidic DIY science: http://www.stanford.edu/group/riedel-kruse/publications/Riedel_2011_LabChip.pdf.  
- An $80 k informal funding pool for DIYbio, transhumanist, and RepRap projects was mentioned alongside the newly announced $10 M NewOrgan Prize (http://mfoundation.org/?pn=mj_neworgan_prize) for the first team to 3-D print and transplant a patient-specific whole organ by 2020.  
- Developers repaired the SKDB hardware-package manager’s git history, migrated hosting to git://packages.gnusha.org/package_name.git, and restored the command-line tool “skdb-get” (e.g., skdb-get lego) for automated retrieval and build of open-hardware designs.