- A curated archive of foundational nanotechnology literature—Drexler’s Nanosystems, Engines of Creation, and related papers—is publicly hosted at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/nanotech/.  
- A short YouTube video, “Cold Warning – Kinematic Self-Replicating Machine” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aLAo0fZrJo), was circulated as an accessible primer on self-replicating machines.  
- Participants noted that current “artificial life from scratch” projects (e.g., Gibson assembly) still depend on pre-existing cellular machinery; DNA alone cannot bootstrap a membrane-bound cell.  
- Kanzure is leading an open-source revival of NanoEngineer-1 (https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer) after the original NanoRex project ended in 2009, with a new developer list at https://groups.google.com/group/nanoengineer-dev.  
- Tihamer Toth-Fejel’s 2002 NIAC study on diamondoid mechanosynthesis (http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/883Toth-Fejel.pdf) was highlighted as a key reference that still lacks experimental validation.  
- Practical lab troubleshooting revealed that running Windows XP in a VM to control a NanoDrop 1000 fails even with USB passthrough, illustrating ongoing hardware-software compatibility issues in DIY bio-labs.  
- Developers seeking a “generic” EMR integration plugin were advised to build standalone, RPC-based modules that log every change for HIPAA compliance instead of pursuing a universal plug-in architecture.  
- The community warns that mainstream futurist media and university press releases systematically distort scientific results; they recommend reading original papers and the DIYbio Google Group (https://groups.google.com/group/diybio) for reliable updates.