# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Discussion (June 21, 2009)

• Discussions about microfluidics fabrication techniques, with one user planning to experiment with laminated transparent sheets as mentioned by J. Cline on a mailing list, considering it the quickest and most precise way to get into microfluidics.

• Kanzure and Fenn appear to be the only active developers working on SKDB (skill database), a project related to open hardware and manufacturing.

• Significant work on nodal analysis and circuit theory, with exploration of supernodes, cutsets, and symbolic network analysis; Kanzure documented findings at http://adl.serveftp.org/dokuwiki/nodal_analysis.

• Experimentation with SymPy (symbolic mathematics in Python) for handling units and differentiation, with specific focus on physics units and their mathematical representation.

• Discussion of FPGA-based approaches to neuromorphic computing and neural modeling, with links to papers including "FPGA-based approach to high-speed simulation of conductance-based neuron models" and "Neuromorphic VLSI vision system for real-time texture segregation."

• Brief mention of computer vision applications for security cameras, with suggestions to use OpenMP or OpenCV libraries for image processing and facial recognition.

• References to a server (adl.serveftp.org) that provides access to academic papers behind paywalls, serving as a resource for the community's research.