- A step-by-step guide to 3-D photolithography for micro-/nano-fabrication was shared: http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/nanolab/3D_print/index.html#Procedure and https://nano-cemms.illinois.edu/materials/3d_printing_full.  
- Markus Kayser’s solar-powered 3-D printer that fuses desert sand into glass objects and a sun-powered laser cutter were highlighted as examples of radically self-contained fabrication: http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/06/markus-kayser-builds-a-solar-powered-3d-printer-that-prints-glass-from-sand-and-a-sun-powered-laser-cutter/.  
- Participants discussed automated techniques for stripping identifying watermarks from academic PDFs—especially “Downloaded by …” footers—using pdftk, pdfminer, zlib decompression of object streams, and pattern-matching on repeating text objects.  
- A 4.5 GB local mirror of the diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2 collection was crawled; plans include DOI extraction, automatic tagging, and clustering of the corpus to create a searchable open-access literature database.  
- A short workflow was outlined for surgically removing specific pages or embedded watermarks without rasterizing the entire document, preserving selectable text and vector graphics.  
- The ubigraph graph-visualization engine (http://ubietylab.net/ubigraph/) was noted as a potential tool for mapping citation networks or concept graphs extracted from the paper corpus.