# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Log (June 12, 2012)

• The FBI-DIYbio workshop brought together biohackers from around the world, with representatives from Genspace, Biocurious, La Paillasse (France), MadLab (UK) and other spaces, demonstrating the global growth of community biology labs with detailed transcripts documented at diyhpl.us/wiki.

• A significant technical discussion centered on DIY electroporation apparatus design, with participants sharing documentation and suggesting GFP or antibiotic resistance plasmids as simple tests for successful electroporation in yeast.

• Participants debated a claimed 10X price reduction in DNA synthesis using pooled microarrays, with some community members expressing skepticism about this approach as a viable long-term solution.

• The community showed active interest in open-source biology hardware development through the announcement of a DIYbio hardware project repository at diybio.org.

• A philosophical debate emerged regarding "consent-reality fundamentalists" who argue that objectivity is merely social agreement, highlighting tensions between relativistic and objective approaches to science within the transhumanist community.

• The intersection of transhumanism with entrepreneurship was evident through mentions of startup science events and discussions of database technologies like SQLAlchemy for scaling applications.