• A Gizmodo article on engineering yogurt bacteria to secrete Prozac-like compounds was circulated as a flagship example of DIY synthetic-biology mental-health hacking.  
• rdb proposed an open-source “bio-duino” board built around TI’s ADS1198/129x 16–24-bit biopotential ADCs, featuring opto-isolated USB and human-body-model ESD protection for safe, low-cost EEG/EKG/EMG experimentation.  
• The Emotiv EPOC headset and the open-source Emokit reverse-engineering library (http://daeken.com/emokit-hacking-the-emotiv-epoc-brain-computer-0) were highlighted as affordable, hackable alternatives to the outdated 10-bit OpenEEG design.  
• A minimalist open-hardware constant-current electroporator (<$20 BOM) was sketched for in-vivo DNA delivery to muscle or brain, delivering 0.1–1 A, <200 V, 10–50 ms pulses with no detectable tissue damage according to a shared review paper.  
• An enzymatic DNA-oligo synthesis workflow was outlined that iteratively ligates 6-mer units on magnetic beads inside a PDMS microfluidic chip, potentially yielding 50 kb constructs overnight while avoiding costly phosphoramidite chemistry after an initial 4,096-member 6-mer library is built.  
• Participants curated a “DIY Bio Projects” PDF cataloging open-source tools such as dremelfuge, DIY spectrophotometers, OpenPCR, POSAM, and gel rigs, with full YAML BOMs hosted at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/diytranshuman_projects.v4.html.  
• Homebrew gene-gun vs. electroporation vs. Agrobacterium debates concluded that wild-type Agrobacterium isolated from forest soil and shipped between members offers the cheapest route to plant transgenics, supported by a shared protocol library (http://superkuh.com/library/Biology/Agrobacterium/).  
• A 3-axis open-source liquid-handling robot (LH002) and Steel2_’s electrohydrodynamic jet nanoprinting rig (<1 µm silver traces, 2 nm positioning) were showcased as complementary efforts to democratize lab automation and micron-scale PCB fabrication.  
• Near-space balloon experiments to study bacterial survival under low pressure and radiation were proposed, alongside discussion of Inscentinel’s bee-based vapor-sensing platform as a low-cost DIY cancer-detection system.  
• Links to key resources included the 1999 paper reconstructing visual scenes from cat V1 recordings, the HomeCMOS project for DIY micron-scale CMOS, and the classic Bio-Rad PCR music video, illustrating the breadth of open-access material fueling the community.