- Open Science Summit 2011 was attended by several channel members; kanzure live-transcribed talks and posted the full transcripts to diyhpluswiki, covering Victoria Stodden on transparency, Nick Shockey on open access, Stephan Kinsella on IP and mercantilism, Andrew Torrance on open vs closed innovation, and Misha Angrist on personal genomics.  
- Discussion of the American Chemical Society’s lobbying: $100 k to Hicks Partners and $180 k to Wexler & Walker in 2005 to oppose PubChem, and a 2007 PR campaign framing open access as “government censorship.”  
- BGI’s crowdsourced E. coli O104:H4 genome-analysis repository was highlighted: https://github.com/ehec-outbreak-crowdsourced/BGI-data-analysis/tree/master/strains.  
- DIY hardware threads: Utopiah linked RobotsInArchitecture.org (6-axis robotic arm milling foam); fenn argued hexapods or gantry routers are 10× cheaper and faster for such tasks.  
- kanzure’s offline “atoms” pages (formerly heybryan.org) noted to contain ultra-high-vacuum chamber designs useful for DIY AFM/STM projects; eudoxia asked whether anyone had built the open-source AFM.  
- delinquentme offered an open-source peristaltic pump design for communal inspection and asked about the fastest route to SBIR/NIH eligibility—partnering with an existing lab versus formal institute registration.  
- WebGL demo: real-time X-wing rendered in browser at http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/xwing/index.html.  
- Procedural world-generation resource shared: Accidental Noise library examples for Minecraft-like terrain at http://accidentalnoise.sourceforge.net/minecraftworlds.html.