• A Washington-DC-area “BioPrinting Breakout” unconference was announced for 25 April 2015 at http://bioprintingbreakout.com/; channel members discussed attending but scheduling conflicts were noted.

• Discussion of body-armor materials linked to a 2013 review of AR500 Armor’s carbon-nanotube-enhanced Level IIIA soft armor (Kevlar + HDPE plates), framed as an accessible path to “nanotech suburban warrior” gear.

• A short debate on code style identified the anti-pattern of naming an object instance “object1_type” when the type is already encoded in a column; the term “ORM Hungarian notation” was suggested as the closest label.

• A local DIYbio group held its inaugural meeting the same weekend; at least one participant had to choose between it and the bioprinting event.

• No substantive technical papers, repositories, or media beyond the armor-review link were shared in the log.