- A MakerBot mascot design contest was announced on GrabCAD, inviting CAD models that could become the face of the consumer 3-D-printing company.  
- Pittsburgh’s first DIYbio meet-up was scheduled for the following Monday; participants were encouraged to involve Marty McGuire and the local HackPGH hackerspace.  
- Bruce Perens launched a new mailing list (lists.openhardware.org/legal) dedicated to open-source hardware legal issues, including anti-patent strategies and licensing frameworks.  
- Discussion of 3-D-printed gun parts on Thingiverse framed the issue as politically risky “easy fodder for the ban-everything crowd,” with the counterpoint that legal flamethrowers are already available online.  
- A community member shared a detailed YouTube teardown of Tecan liquid-handling robots, highlighting their mechanical and software functionality for lab automation.  
- An interactive “lunar rover simulator” project was described in which children could drive physical exhibit robots remotely via iPhone while watching the machines move in real time.  
- A Hacker News link to an in-depth analysis of the Quake 2 source code was circulated for those interested in game-engine internals and open-source code study.