- Autopatcher.org offers open-source LabVIEW software and hardware designs for fully-automated, in-vivo patch-clamp recording of neurons, enabling high-throughput brain analysis as described in Kodandaramaiah et al. (2012).  
- Participants proposed replacing ad-hoc nootropic self-experimentation with a closed-loop pipeline: simulate how known cognitive enhancers alter hippocampal-thalamic network dynamics, search chemical space for compounds that reproduce the same firing-pattern changes, then validate predictions against Netmorph-generated neuronal morphologies and 3scan diamond-knife connectomics data.  
- The “minimum viable nootropic” was re-defined as any compound whose measurable effect is to let its user design a superior successor, making iterative, simulation-driven discovery the primary success metric.  
- Key open tools and datasets cited include KiCad/gEDA for open-source PCB design, Plasticity (bryant.edu) for BCM/Hebbian learning simulations, Channelpedia (EPFL) for curated ion-channel kinetics, and IBM Almaden’s large-scale cortical-simulation videos.  
- Skepticism was voiced about “Neuromatic Devices,” whose website relies on stock imagery and republishes unrelated papers, highlighting the need for due diligence in evaluating neurotech startups.  
- The Oracle v. Google trial sparked concern that a ruling granting copyright protection to APIs could broadly hinder open-source re-implementations across languages and domains.