• Alcor Cryonics announced a $5 million donation earmarked for cryonics research; the funds are not being held in Bitcoin, prompting some surprise in the channel.  
• nmz787 reported progress on home-brew photolithography: he has produced PCB masks on copper using inexpensive Chinese photoresist and believes that with “a week or two of solid time” he could achieve higher-resolution patterning, contingent on better photoresist selection and equipment tuning.  
• Discussion of micro-fabrication collaboration: ebowden urged nmz787 to pool resources (FIB, SEM, laser gear, and an Xbox Blu-ray controller) with another hobbyist who is already patterning chips with a projector-based setup, but nmz787 cited being “spread too thin” and logistical issues around shipping delicate gear.  
• nmz787 purchased a Comma.ai “Panda” OBD-II interface (white model) to reverse-engineer his truck’s CAN bus, aiming first to fix screen-brightness software glitches and ultimately to add self-steering and automated acceleration/braking capabilities.  
• kanzure shared an eBay store link (thehangarbay) that appears to list surplus lab and electronics equipment of potential interest to DIY biohacker projects.  
• A brief exchange on open-hardware economics: when nmz787 lamented the lack of collaborators, kanzure bluntly suggested “pay them,” highlighting the perennial funding bottleneck in open-source transhumanist hardware efforts.  
• kanzure invoked the Wikipedia page on “Directed evolution (transhumanism)” to frame the broader goal of deliberately steering human evolution—distinct from the biochemical sense of evolving proteins/RNA—underscoring the channel’s long-standing interest in experimental evolution applied to human enhancement.