• The FBI invited a #hplusroadmap regular to a DIYbio workshop, prompting satirical talk titles that underscored community skepticism about government oversight of open biology.  
• Peter Thiel launched a new $2 million grant program ($50 k–$250 k per award) specifically for DIYbio projects, triggering immediate discussion on how open-source biology could scale with external funding.  
• A cost comparison showed U.S. PCB fabrication at $360 for five boards versus $20 for ten boards from a Chinese fab, highlighting the global economics that shape open-hardware development.  
• Participants weighed additive 3-D printing (ideal for intricate miniatures) against subtractive CNC routing (better for large, versatile builds), refining practical guidance for hardware hackers.  
• A debugging session resolved OpenGL NURBS rendering glitches by adjusting viewport and sampling-tolerance settings, with working code released at http://runten.tripod.com/NURBS/Nurbs-0.1.zip.  
• Intellectual-property tactics were explored via the PyCon 2011 talk “How to Kill a Patent with Python” and the gray-area practice of exposing copyrighted PDFs only to search-engine crawlers.  
• The complete KurzweilAI.net “Brain” article archive was republished at http://www.wellnowwhat.net/brain_archive/ to preserve historical AI and transhumanist research.  
• Veterans advised newcomers to bypass incremental 3-D-printing practice and leap directly to “designer organs,” pointing to existing open-source bioprinting and tissue-engineering resources.  
• Channel founder released 2009–2010 IRC activity graphs at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/meetlog/ to visualize the evolution of community discourse over time.