# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (March 20, 2010)

• Discussion of Cube.ly, a new 3D printer using 80/20 girders for a 2'x2'x2' chassis with electronic components identical to those in Makerbot and Mendel, released under TAPR and GPL3 licenses with a goal of getting 10,000 open hardware 3D printing devices to people worldwide by January 2013.

• Mention of Makerbot Industries being named in a "list of 20 hottest startups in NYC," suggesting its growing prominence in the maker community.

• Reference to a biological counter project by Katherine Aull from 2008, indicating early biohacking work in the community.

• Discussion of graph database performance, with a cited example capable of importing 2.5 million nodes and 60 million edges in 12 minutes, with query times averaging under 5ms for finding related items.

• References to BitTorrent being used for distributed systems, including Facebook reportedly using it "under the hood" to distribute status updates, and other projects like Debtorrent (for Debian updates) and Tribler (P2P video).

• Mention of a visualization tool for sleep patterns based on IRC usage data, showing interest in personal tracking and quantified self approaches.

• Discussion of hackerspace development with reference to "scannedinavian.com:8080" as a new hackerspace organizing its first meeting.