• A retrofitted six-axis Yaskawa Motoman K10s welding robot at Sudo Room—now fitted with a router—was used to mill a 23 mm hole for a Pokéball project, underscoring the practical difficulty of repurposing industrial hardware for small-scale fabrication.

• Members debated the cost-benefit of acquiring a $300, 6-ft-wide laminar flow hood for a garage lab, considering its potential future use in microfluidics or spin-coating experiments despite having no immediate application.

• A 1973 quotation on neural plasticity and self-organization was circulated, emphasizing early recognition that the brain must adapt to unforeseen situations—relevant to current BCI and cognitive enhancement research.

• Firefox 48’s mandatory extension-signing policy was criticized as a departure from open-source principles; the Mozilla wiki page documenting the policy was cited as the authoritative source.

• A minicon presentation on achieving arbitrary code execution in original Game Boy Pokémon ROMs was referenced, along with a link to prior work using a Clojure-driven VBA emulator for total-control exploits.