• TAPR officially deprecated its Non-Commercial Hardware License at the 2012 annual meeting, making the organization 100 % open-hardware after community feedback from #hplusroadmap and related groups.  
• A wireless EEG headset powered by a body-heat thermoelectric generator was highlighted (IMEC 2007 report); participants joked about its conspicuous appearance and predicted rapid police attention if worn in public.  
• Discussion of open-hardware licensing included links to a Public Laboratory Google-group thread and a Weinberg legal analysis on open-source hardware law, plus the observation that Tesla had “open-sourced” its EV connector specification.  
• The Open Science Summit 2012 livestream was belatedly shared; attendees criticized the “Software Tools for Open Biology” session as dominated by perceived spam/marketing (Synbiota) and Adobe/Flash-based tools (Genome Compiler Inc.).  
• A SourceForge project appeared that repackages NanoEngineer-1, PACKMOL, and MSI2LMP for molecular-dynamics cell setup; channel members noted the code already exists on GitHub and lamented the lack of upstream contributions or pull requests.  
• OpenWorm’s muscle-model wiki was referenced, specifically a roadmap for integrating electrophysiological data with smooth-particle hydrodynamics for whole-organism simulation.  
• Cyberdyne’s HAL exoskeleton brain-controlled full-body suit was reported to be deployed for Fukushima cleanup work, illustrating near-term BCI-to-actuation systems.  
• Examine.com, a crowdsourced supplement-research database run by Reddit’s silverhydra et al., was introduced to the channel as a useful pharmacological reference.