- The open-source “wayback” project (https://github.com/wabarc/wayback) was shared as a tool for local archiving of web content, with a brief discussion on whether it is intended for personal storage.  
- Opentrons’ $9 k bench-top auto-pipetting robot was highlighted as a potential low-cost lab-automation platform, but participants judged it “>5× overpriced” for the performance it delivers.  
- Regulatory and liability concerns around selling liquid-handling devices into biomedical labs were cited as a major barrier; one contributor stated an “allergy to anything that looks remotely like a medical device” based on prior experience.  
- A workaround suggested was to ship the device as a user-assembled kit, thereby classifying it as a lab instrument the end-user builds rather than a regulated medical product.  
- Participants debated repurposing ubiquitous Prusa i3 “bedslinger” 3-D printers as pipetting robots; it was noted that while the motion system could act as an “embedded shaker,” CoreXY designs would avoid the bedslinger’s drawbacks.  
- The consensus was that achieving meaningful throughput gains over manual grad-student pipetting does not require the heavy, expensive hardware found in commercial systems, opening the door to minimalist, open-source designs.