# Key Points from IRC Log

• The Frankencamera project was discussed, which is based on OMAP3 technology, along with "dark flash photography" using IR/UV instead of visible light for photography (http://cs.nyu.edu/~dilip/wordpress/?page_id=38).

• CERN's LHC First Physics Live Webcast was mentioned, scheduled for March 30, 2010, indicating interest in particle physics developments.

• A significant scraping project of Thingiverse design files was undertaken, with the creator sharing the repository (http://designfiles.org/~bryan/thingiverse_packages/) including metadata, license information, and thumbnails.

• DIY genomics resources were shared (http://diygenomics.pbworks.com), along with tools for genome analysis using Hadoop (http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/10/15/analyzing-human-genomes-with-hadoop/) and other bioinformatics tools like Crossbow and SOAP.

• Discussion of cooperative organizational structures for open source projects, with suggestions that projects like GNUSHA should resolve open source hardware licensing issues, create a Debian-like social contract, and establish free software/hardware guidelines before launch.

• Participants discussed NEURON software for neural simulation, with one user noting it's "more sophisticated than I thought" particularly regarding units, variables and cell cross sections, though expressing skepticism about its parallel MPI architecture.