- GitHub’s new in-browser STL viewer was contrasted with the decade-old open-source post-receive hook gitduino-post-receive.sh (diyhpl.us), illustrating the long-standing availability of server-side 3-D model rendering for open hardware projects.  
- Participants compared open-source neural-reconstruction stacks—Reconstruct (BU), Vaa3D, TrakEM2—against proprietary 3scan software and urged the company to release its code to accelerate connectomics research.  
- A Nature Medicine paper on gut-microbiota conversion of L-carnitine to TMAO and atherosclerosis was mirrored on diyhpl.us, sparking debate over pig models, the uniqueness of human cooking behavior, and whether isolate-based nutrition studies misrepresent whole-food effects such as grass-fed meat, whey, and CLA.  
- DIY biology newcomers were directed to the diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/faq and encouraged to build low-cost lab automation (thermocyclers, nanodrop-style spectrophotometers, open-hardware flow cytometers/FACS) rather than attempt expensive “wet” work.  
- An ambitious proposal was floated to reverse-engineer Illumina-style next-generation sequencing hardware and chemistry as an open-source project, alongside routine bypassing of paywalls for key biomedical literature.  
- A two-evening Genspace workshop was announced where attendees reprogram bacteria with luciferase and culture take-home dinoflagellates, highlighting the growing “glow-frenzy” trend in community bio labs.  
- High-quality open-source geometry and volumetric tools—Alembic (scene interchange) and DreamWorks’ OpenVDB (sparse volumes, CSG, level-set ops)—were presented as ready-to-use infrastructure for 3-D modeling and simulation.  
- The VFX industry’s open-source culture was showcased via Afanasy render-farm scheduler, Rez package manager, and Guerilla-DI pipeline tools, offered as models for rigorous dependency and workflow management in scientific computing.