- A new open-source water-cooled 3-D-printer hot-end capable of 255–305 °C with sub-degree thermal control was introduced; the $250 kit uses a Peltier stage and active water cooling to extrude polycarbonate and is being extended toward aluminium, carbon-nanotube, and bioprinting applications.  
- Channel members demonstrated a “paperbot” that automatically retrieves pay-walled journal articles via LibGen and mirrors them on diyhpl.us, making dozens of papers on animal nutrition, forest ecology, and ethnopharmacology openly accessible.  
- Wikihouse.cc was highlighted as an open-source construction system that lets anyone design, download, and CNC-mill houses; participants proposed using Digirout or Blackfoot desktop CNC kits to mill a dust-controlled shed as a first project.  
- The BeagleBone Black and its on-chip Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) were recommended as superior, open alternatives to the Raspberry Pi for low-latency I/O; links to pypruss Python bindings and tutorials were shared.  
- A revived “Millennial Project 2.0” roadmap for space development was discussed, including internal debates over “sea vs. space first” priorities and the use of Antarctica as a cheaper test-bed for closed-loop life-support and mariculture experiments.  
- Participants outlined a workflow for mining personal genomics data: map gene symbols (e.g., CYB5R3 for methemoglobinemia) to dbSNP rsIDs, then search raw 23andMe files, while noting the general lack of curated functional annotations for most SNPs.