- A link to a 2010 blog post about writing and coding with stenography (http://plover.stenoknight.com/2010/04/writing-and-coding-with-steno.html) was shared as a potential fix for a perceived bug in text-entry systems.  
- Participants criticized Steve Mann’s IEEE Spectrum article on Google Glass for its weak “little brother” framing and lamented the absence of open hardware schematics.  
- DIYbio-Israel’s equipment spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At_WP5lmDYDzdElNNTBSYUw5OHoyQlFsalFMWnA0aHc&usp=sharing) was highlighted as better organized than comparable U.S. groups, though it was later clarified that the listed items (e.g., NanoDrop) were aspirational rather than on-hand.  
- High-resolution die shots and a tutorial on decapping and photographing microchips (MSP430, PIC, Z80) were posted from Zeptobars (http://zeptobars.ru/en/read/open-microchip-asic-what-inside-II-msp430-pic-z80 and http://zeptobars.ru/en/read/how-to-open-microchip-asic-what-inside).  
- Discussion of post-sequencing data reliability noted that most pipelines only glance at initial quality scores and rarely propagate reliability metrics forward, prompting a broader question about how to quantify and deprecate aging datasets.  
- A request for DIY syringe-pump plans was answered with archived images and encouragement to contact Adrian Bowyer for additional open hardware files (http://web.archive.org/web/20111021204239/http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab/replicator/Pix/syringe-pump-h.jpg).  
- Anecdotes about mining ~US$1,200 worth of bitcoins on two Radeon HD 5870 GPUs illustrated early personal-scale cryptocurrency generation.  
- Portland’s open tech-calendar aggregator Calagator (http://calagator.org/events) and the #pdxtech IRC channel were recommended as key resources for the local hacker scene.