# Key Points from IRC Log (September 9, 2011)

• A Finnish biohacker community was mentioned with a link to a blog post (http://blog.ossoil.com/2011/09/09/finnish-biohacker-community/), indicating the growth of DIY biology communities internationally.

• The Call for Papers for the 28th Chaos Communication Congress was shared (http://events.ccc.de/2011/09/09/cfp-for-28th-chaos-communication-congress/), a significant hacker conference relevant to the transhumanist community.

• Discussion about synthetic biology design tools occurred, specifically mentioning ClothoCAD as software for designing with biobricks, showing interest in computational approaches to biological design.

• Lab-on-a-chip technology was discussed as an alternative approach to DIY biology, with references to microfluidics that can perform PCR and electrophoresis on a small scale that could potentially be produced at home.

• The Open Hardware Summit (http://openhardwaresummit.org/) was mentioned, indicating the overlap between open hardware movements and transhumanist/biohacking interests.

• A "gitduino" project was referenced as "a github clone specifically for open source hardware," suggesting efforts to create specialized collaboration platforms for hardware development.