- A participant detailed personal RSI management: stretching and gel ice packs below the elbow provided relief, while strengthening exercises worsened symptoms, and noted the social isolation of chronic hand pain among non-elderly adults.  
- Discussion linked food allergies to systemic inflammation as a modifiable trigger for joint/nerve pain and highlighted Corydalis (herbal alkaloid) as an over-the-counter neuropathic-pain remedy for biohackers.  
- Debate over open-source vs. trade-secret licensing for biotech instruments revealed frustration with license complexity and skepticism about enforceability; resources like tldrlegal.com and Wikipedia’s license comparison page were shared.  
- Microfluidics was proposed for a low-cost “digital pen” using Stanford’s $400 mold service and Shrinky-Dink techniques, with a YouTube playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5AFDE0D7CCE51ACE) offered as a DIY droplet-manipulation primer.  
- Plans circulated for the DEF CON BioHacking Village (Aug 6–9 2015, Paris Hotel, Las Vegas) covering ethics, neurohacking, and health-myth busting.  
- A startup idea emerged: instead of building organ-perfusion hardware, create software dashboards for existing perfusion/containment machines to attract funding.  
- Research was shared on using neck-mounted laser Doppler vibrometry to capture vocal-fold vibrations for improved speech recognition, with open questions on theoretical gains over conventional audio.  
- Links to open-source optogenetics hardware (DLP projection setups) on openoptogenetics.org and the Hackaday.io “Microwave-Assisted Aluminium Printing” project were provided to lower barriers for optical neural stimulation and metal 3-D printing experiments.