Some updates early 2026

I am currently involved with the development direction of AtomCAD.
It is a software meant to help in APM bootstrapping process
with a particular focus on the direct path side.
https://https//github.com/AtomCAD/atomCAD
More coming from the side of …
– programmatic crystal cutting and
– eventually early mechanosynthesis simulation and analysis.
– Not making it easy to make chemically wild and adventurous structures or at least eventually highlighting such issues rigorously.

That rather than focus of a focus on very unconstrained and quite manual free-form atomistic editing like
other complementary software aims for. E.g. the also still quite new MSEP:
https://github.com/MSEP-one/msep.one

There is an discord channel associated with AtomCAD that has some activity:
INVITE: https://discord.gg/GCvVK4TK
AtomCAD development funded by Machine Phase Systems (soon to be re-branded to Elementa).

An interesting new paper came out just recently (CBN-nano group)
2025-12-30 Inverted-Mode Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Atomically Precise Fabrication
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24431

Two slightly related new pages on my wiki:
https://http//apm.bplaced.n…dapter_molecule
https://http//apm.bplaced.n…osynthesis_mode
There are also plenty of other new pages on the wiki.
I gotta update the log and post some highlights here.