- Open-manufacturing enthusiasm: a Huntsville, AL meetup at Makers Local 256 was held and declared “a total success,” with the group’s Meetup page (http://www.meetup.com/Huntsville-Open-Manufacturing-meetup/) and a “Young Makers” video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIX5a9HouKM) shared as resources.  
- DIY 3-D printing advances: Jeff Gough demonstrated a molten-wax ink-jet printer (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN9Btu7DHhw) and jebba reported receiving an improved extruder for a Shapercube that should eliminate jamming issues.  
- Neuroengineering career debate: participants questioned whether neuroengineering graduates can do open, non-proprietary work without incurring debt; Ed Boyden (http://edboyden.org/) was suggested as a contact, and the Australian income-contingent student-loan system was offered as a debt-minimizing model.  
- Open-hardware licensing discussion: JayDugger raised whether the Gada Prize defaulted to GPL or evaluated other open-hardware licenses; kanzure replied that no comparative analysis had occurred and that inertia currently rules the prize framework.  
- DIYbio visibility: the Syfy Eureka blog highlighted a “meat-tenderizer / salad-spinner” home biotech setup, linking mainstream media attention to the DIYbio movement.  
- Drew Endy lecture added: kanzure uploaded Endy’s 24C3 “Programming DNA” talk to the diyhpl.us media archive (http://diyhpl.us:9000/s/24c3-programming-dna-2329).  
- Quora thread on future manufacturing: Utopiah shared a discussion asking “Will (home) manufacturing be the new big thing?” (http://www.quora.com/Will-(home)-manufacturing-be-the-new-big-thing).