• A batch of ADS1192 breakout boards—low-noise, 24-bit, 2-channel ADCs favored for DIY EEG—arrived and were offered to channel members for open-source brain-computer-interface experiments.  
• Participants sketched a non-invasive “spider-sense” prototype: a head-mounted 360° ultrasonic scanner feeding eight wrist-mounted vibrators or electrodes to give spatial awareness to the blind, contrasting with subdermal neodymium magnets that could couple to external solenoids for fingertip echolocation.  
• A curated archive of academic papers on brain implants was shared at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/implants/, alongside links to biohack.me for first-hand DIY neuro-implant reports and discussions of magnetic finger implants’ practical sensitivity limits.  
• Oxford Nanopore’s claim of 100-kilobase reads (4 % error, systematic miscalls in homopolymer repeats) was dissected; short-read pyrosequencing was proposed as a complementary error-correction strategy, while Halcyon Molecular’s pivot from sequencing to microscope sales after Elon Musk’s late investment was questioned.  
• The Raspberry Pi officially launched at $25 (Model A) and $35 (Model B), crashing RS Components and Farnell sites under demand; participants evaluated it as an ultra-low-cost ARM platform for HTPC, file-server, or distributed bio-lab automation.  
• A forthcoming FBI/DIYbio community meeting (Bay Area, May 2012) was announced; past transcripts revealed that BSL-2 work is feasible in home labs and that MSDS sheets are liability documents, not protocols, while prosecutors ultimately declined a lentiviral-work-in-apartment case.  
• Singapore’s genewired.com DIYbio initiative, Paris’s tmplab, and London Hackspace’s DIYbio subgroup were recommended to traveling biohackers, alongside citizen-science pieces on agar-plate aseptic technique and a San Diego State student running biology experiments without a formal lab.  
• A heated debate contrasted SIAI-style “delay all AI/transhuman advances until proven safe” with open-transhumanist accelerationism, using forced mind-uploading and historical analogies (e.g., Hitler’s scalability) to probe risks of supreme agency.  
• Participants rejected “cishumanist” claims that enhancement tech will widen rich-poor gaps, arguing that open-source hardware (e.g., DIY thermocyclers) and distributed manufacturing let low-resource groups replicate expensive tools.  
• The psychiatric labeling of anti-authoritarian behavior was criticized via the Mad in America article “Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill,” while broader philosophical tensions surfaced around measuring “intelligence,” “human equality,” and the social construction of rights in transhumanist discourse.