# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Feb 25, 2009)

• Discussion of BioPython and BioPERL libraries, with links to code repositories and mailing list conversations about bioinformatics software development, showing ongoing work in open-source biological data processing.

• Conversation about automated linkage design and kinematics, with one participant working on deriving motion profiles for mechanical systems without simulation, potentially for creating a program that constructs designs for specific movement paths.

• References to CNC router construction (the "mechmate" project), with shared images of a workshop space, highlighting DIY digital fabrication efforts.

• Critique of approaches to open-source fabrication labs, with frustration expressed about requests for hand-holding rather than self-directed learning in technical communities.

• Brief mention of Astrobotic Technology's work on small robots for lunar surface preparation for NASA outposts, with a link to their website.

• Discussion of computational problems in CS homework, including an algorithm for calculating the number of flips needed to solve problems of size n.