- A working open-source orbital-shaker controller is ready for industrial design and potential commercialization, while a 30 MB FASTA dump of every BioBrick in the Registry of Standard Biological Parts (http://partsregistry.org/fasta/parts/All_Parts) was released to bypass the Registry’s closed ordering system.  
- Participants outlined a sub-$10 k personal molecular-biology lab vision, debating real-world prices for used DNA synthesizers ($300–$1,500 on eBay vs. $150 k new) and critiquing academic microarray-printer BOMs ($9–23 k motion stages) as candidates for low-cost gantry and laser-etched replacements.  
- An inkjet-based DNA-synthesizer concept was advanced: Epson piezo heads plus DVD-drive optics, using propylene carbonate instead of acetonitrile to achieve 94–98 % coupling efficiency while a laser break-beam sensor verifies droplet ejection.  
- Grassroots privacy education was organized via CryptoParty meetups teaching PGP, Tor, OTR, and TrueCrypt, while Chinese-language life-science forum dxy.cn (丁香园) and black-market ezproxy credentials ($60–100/semester) were highlighted as alternative routes to paywalled literature.  
- A collaborative “bioengineering study guide” was proposed, anchored by MIT OCW biology courses, Khan Academy videos, Coursera/EdX MOOCs, and the rOpenSci package index (http://ropensci.org/packages/index.html) for open-source scientific computing.