- A community member is considering purchasing a used PUMA 560 industrial robot arm listed on eBay, highlighting interest in repurposing legacy automation hardware for open-source or DIY projects.  
- Jonathan Bachrach’s MIT “Minimals” project (http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/minimals/) was shared as a resource for minimal, embeddable systems or languages.  
- A YouTube link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hupHAPF1fHY) was flagged as “a must see,” though its specific content is not described; it was presented as highly relevant to the channel’s interests.  
- Ramanujan’s digitized mathematical notebooks were linked (http://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan/NotebookFirst.htm) as a historical reference for mathematical insight and inspiration.  
- A comprehensive, categorized list of open-source neuroscience tools was posted, covering imaging (3D Slicer, AFNI, FreeSurfer, MRtrix, etc.), data management (XNAT/PyXNAT), neural modeling (NEURON, NEST, Brian, MOOSE), electrophysiology (EEGLAB, FieldTrip, MNE Suite), BCI frameworks (BCI2000, OpenViBE), and real-time/DAQ stacks (Comedi, RTAI, Xenomai).  
- The same list also included experimental-control software (PsychoPy, OpenSesame, Vision Egg) and hardware-interfacing libraries (EPICS, MX), sourced from Yaroslav Halchenko at Rutgers.  
- A new Python wrapper for OpenSCAD (https://github.com/hmeyer/openscadpy) was announced, offering programmatic 3-D modeling capabilities within the open-source CAD ecosystem.  
- Skepticism was voiced about TermKit (http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit), noting that graphical enhancements to terminals have been attempted many times before (e.g., in GNOME Terminal and xterm).  
- A debugging tip was shared: IDA Pro does not automatically patch binaries, requiring manual intervention to apply code changes—illustrated with a blog post (http://marcoramilli.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-patch-binary-with-ida-pro.html).