DoES Liverpool - Co-Working And Maker Community http://doesliverpool.com Co-Working, Hot Desks, Workshop, Studio and Events Community Space Mon, 20 May 2013 09:04:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Week 102 – Back in the Laser-Cutter http://doesliverpool.com/weeknotes/week-102-back-in-the-laser-cutter/ http://doesliverpool.com/weeknotes/week-102-back-in-the-laser-cutter/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 08:52:53 +0000 weeknotes http://doesliverpool.com/?p=804
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And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 20th May, 6-9pm Liverpool Sewing Club
Wednesday 22nd May, 7-9pm UmbLiverpool NEW! Group for those interested in Umbraco

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And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 13th May, 6-8pm PyPool
Tuesday 14th May, 4:30pm Epic Trip #3: Fire! Fire!
Tuesday 14th May, 7-9pm Breakerfaire
Wednesday 15th May, 6:30-8pm Liverpool Friends of the Earth
Saturday 18th May, 10am-5pm Hack the Space

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And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Tuesday 7th May, 6:30-9pm Clojure Dojo
Wednesday 8th May, 6-9pm Maker Night
Thursday 9th May, 7-9pm Lean Liverpool
Saturday 11th May, 10am-5pm Maker Day
Saturday 11th May, 11am-2pm Future Makers

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And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 29th April, 4:30-5:30pm Organisation Meeting
Tuesday 30th April, 6:30-9pm GeekUp Liverpool 6th Anniversary!
Wednesday 1st May, 6-8pm UX Liverpool Their first time at DoES Liverpool

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And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 15th April, 6:30-9pm Maker Night

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And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 15th April, 6-9pm Liverpool Sewing Club
Tuesday 16th April, 7-9pm PyPool NEW! Liverpool Python group
Wednesday 17th April, 6:30-9pm Friends of the Earth

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You might think that “things” have always been connected to the internet. Computers, mobile phones, even printers have been connected for years. A lot of the current talk and investment in Internet of Things is large sensor networks and taking information from our environment. What we at DoES Liverpool like to think of when we talk about the Internet of Things is a whole lot more personal and unexpected. How about a bubble machine that blows bubbles when people mention you or your business on Twitter? Or perhaps a clock or dial that instead of showing time or statistics shows where someone is? These are just two of the ideas that members of the DoES Liverpool community will be bringing to Internet World this month.

But first, what is DoES Liverpool? We are many things. We are an online community of creative and often tech savvy people, of tech startups and “makers”. DoES Liverpool is also a physical space. It provides a co-working office space for members of the community to hot desk from or to take a permanent desk. There’s also a shared workshop with lots of equipment available for use; traditional tools such as soldering irons and band-saws to the more modern digital fabrication equipment like the laser cutter and 3D printers. We also hold regular events on many topics from specific programming languages like Python and Clojure through to more business focussed events like Lean Liverpool and Saturday Startup Club. We have a great community coming up with some wonderful ideas, and we’re looking forward to showing some of these to you at Internet World 2013.

DoES Liverpool logo on our Makerbot

Adrian McEwen has been putting things on the Internet for many years. He led the team who developed the first full web browser for a mobile phone, and his code (he’s slightly ashamed to admit) made it onto the Amstrad Emailer. He was recently described as an IoT pioneer by Kevin Ashton, the person who coined the term “Internet of Things” in the first place! Adrian will be bringing two of his IoT inventions to Internet World. Bubblino, the aforementioned twitter activated bubble blowing machine, was actually one of his first IoT projects but is well loved at conferences around the UK and has now been sold to various people in the UK and Europe. The Acker’s Bell was a more recent commision to provide Liverpool Startup ScraperWiki with a bell that would chime each time they made a sale. The mounting for the bell was designed and laser cut in DoES Liverpool with Adrian developing the software and electronics. Usually living in ScraperWiki’s office in Liverpool the Acker’s Bell will be visiting London for you to see at Internet World 2013

With another DoES Liverpool co-founder, Hakim Cassimally, Adrian has spent the last year writing the definitive IoT book – Designing for the Internet of Things. Both Adrian and Hakim will be available to discuss their book and IoT in general, and of course you can pre-order the book on Amazon!

Inspired by the clock owned by the Weasley family in the Harry Potter books, the WhereDial provides a delightful way to make a personal connection with a family member or friend. The WhereDial is made from laser cut plywood or colourful plastic and features a list of location categories around the dial. Through the cloud based location aggregator – MapMe.At – the WhereDial can retrieve a person’s location from FourSquare, Google Latitude and a variety of other services. It then rotates the dial to show where the person is. It’s a great device for people who are less comfortable using mobile phones and computers but is also a really handy glanceable object that fits nicely on the desk of a technophile too. The WhereDial was designed and is built in Liverpool by John McKerrell, also a co-founder of DoES Liverpool.


Perhaps saving the best for last, the final headline item that we’ll be bringing to Internet World 2013 is the Good Night Lamp. Darling of CES and Gadget Show Live, these lamps have a superstar team behind them. They are the brainchild of Alexandra Deshamps-Sonsino, previously a co-founder of smart product design studio Tinker London and the organiser of the monthly Internet of Things meetups in London. She launched the Good Night Lamp as a startup a year ago by committing to taking a booth at CES; 10 months of development later and with a live Kickstarter campaign garnering much publicity she took CES by storm. Her team includes our own Adrian McEwen as CTO; John Nussey as Head of Products and interior designer & architect Konstantinos Chalaris as Lead Designer.

We really hope you will enjoy our exhibition and go away inspired, potentially with some ideas for an IoT product of your own! DoES Liverpool is all about inspiring people to start interesting businesses and while our focus is in Liverpool, we know that IoT is going to take off around the world!

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]]> http://doesliverpool.com/press-releases/press-release-bringing-internet-of-things-to-internet-world-2013/feed/ 2 Week 96 – Pure Gold, Laser Lollies http://doesliverpool.com/weeknotes/week-96-pure-gold-laser-lollies/ http://doesliverpool.com/weeknotes/week-96-pure-gold-laser-lollies/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:40:56 +0000 john http://doesliverpool.com/?p=740
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And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

  • <mcknut> Lolly sticks etched on our laser will be shown on BBC TV (again) tomorrow morning! http://doesliverpool.com/workshop/jolly-lolly-sticks/ #weeknotes
  • defproc: Now I think about it, maybe the upside down print bed on the #3DPrinter was a stealth April Fool’s joke @DoESLiverpool #weeknotes
  • defproc: The calibration of the #3Dprinter @DoESLiverpool for a new filament paid off with good clean prints today #weeknotes
    • amcewen: Excellent #RepRap calibration indeed! I hereby hand my @DoESLiverpool #3Dprinting Expert badge to @DefProc ;-) #weeknotes
    • defproc: @amcewen @DoESLiverpool #RepRap #3Dprinting #weeknotes You keep yours, I’ll print off a new one in the gold filament!

Coming Up in the Next Week

Wednesday 10th April, 6-9pm (TONIGHT!) Maker Night
Thursday 11th April, 7-9pm Lean Liverpool
Saturday 13th April, 10am-5pm Maker Day
Saturday 13th April, 11am-2pm Future Makers

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I have always liked jokes, the shorter the better, so when Emily Watkins phoned into DoES needing help how could I resist.

Emily is a chef who lives and works in the Cotswolds. She must be good because when she rang she was competing in the Great British Menu (for Comic Relief) which airs on BBC2 tomorrow morning 9:05 (Thursday 4th April). She needed jokes fast and she needed them to be etched onto lolly sticks. A quick web search had given her DoES – an artist had used the DoES laser cutter to etch lolly sticks last year.

After a quick negotiation, training on using the laser cutter, a web search to find jokes, joke testing and expert consultation from John and Paul on etching and alignment the lolly sticks were delivered.

It’s fantastic to see something produced at DoES Liverpool appearing on BBC, even if it’s just a simple lolly stick!

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]]> http://doesliverpool.com/workshop/jolly-lolly-sticks/feed/ 0 Week 95 – Sarnies, Diversity and Costumes http://doesliverpool.com/weeknotes/week-95-sarnies-diversity-and-costumes/ http://doesliverpool.com/weeknotes/week-95-sarnies-diversity-and-costumes/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:18:36 +0000 amcewen http://doesliverpool.com/?p=713
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And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 1st April NO SEWING CLUB TONIGHT
Tuesday 2nd April, 7-9pm Clojure Dojo – Hangman
Saturday 6th April, 9am for breakfast at The Hub Saturday Startup Club

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