• A paper comparing modified Howland circuits and current-mirror designs for precision current sources was located and shared, underscoring the channel’s ability to surface hard-to-find instrumentation literature for neuromodulation and bio-electronics projects.  
• Anders Sandberg’s “Daily Life Among the Jupiter Brains” was dissected: a Jupiter-scale computer would dedicate only a ~1.3 km outer “crust” to processors, with the rest consumed by interconnects and cooling, providing a concrete scale reference for extreme-scale computation.  
• An FPGA-based Hodgkin–Huxley spiking-neuron network running 150 neurons in real time (Frontiers article) was circulated as a practical neuromorphic-engineering benchmark and open-hardware inspiration.  
• The “DIY Transhumanist Declaration” (http://diyhpl.us/wiki/declaration) was offered as the channel’s concise manifesto: open-source, individual-empowerment-oriented R&D rather than political or electoral campaigning.  
• A debate on seasteading versus distributed collaboration concluded that relocating entire teams to ocean labs adds friction; land-based or online coordination remains the default for transhumanist R&D.  
• Photon-velocity experiments were discussed: a Science paper and arXiv pre-print 1411.3987 show photons coaxed to travel slower than c in vacuum via group-velocity manipulation, with implications for optical computing and sensing.  
• DIY tDCS anecdotes surfaced: an ex-roommate’s home-built device showed “some success,” but participants warned that targeting data and safety protocols remain weak compared to crude “AA-battery-to-skull” hacks.  
• Rhino3D’s student license was noted to permit commercial use; its Python scripting interface (RhinoCommon) was highlighted as a way to automate CAD workflows without writing .NET plug-ins.  
• A Git workflow mishap led to a tutorial on recovery via `git reflog`, `git stash`, and the differences between `--soft`, `--mixed`, and `--hard` resets, reinforcing the channel’s culture of sharing practical tooling knowledge.  
• Participants argued that individuals should be free to design and use personal medical devices without FDA interference if they do not distribute them, linking kanzure’s wiki on DIY medical-device regulation as a reference.