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Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.

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

• Alex Lennon: So OggCamp inspired Julian Todd and me to start talking a bit more about all the projects we’re working on here DoES Liverpool. Here’s #MITEMS – a The Things Network #LoRAWAN #LPWAN based #IoT stock control system #weeknotes We’d love your feedback!youtube.com/watch?v=hm3uVF…
• DoES Liverpool: Wearable tech night – Ross Dalziel showing joanna_sniadek and chima_okkoye some Micropython code on a micro bit and #laura_pullig threading optical fibre through a grid #weeknotes #microbit instagram.com/p/B37tQgHnDgj/…
• Alex Lennon: So Julian Todd has been innovating DoES Liverpool again today with an old display prototype designed by DefProc Engineering . We’re injecting #MicroPython scriptlets to run from a remote client via #MQtt and it’s all rather amazing. Will do a video cast next week #theiotguys #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/svz52puhs1
  
• Alex Lennon: As ever, pitched up DoES Liverpool and there’s a beautiful new donations box… #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/xuS9NVDZ7A
  
• Alex Lennon: And Julian Todd is going crazy with John McKerrell ‘s #wheresdial hardware. This time a weather forecaster #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/bcfS5JHxdk
  
• Alex Lennon: Today we’re on a DoES Liverpool #DoESEpicTrip to astralship.org for their #unconference #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/GsPiJyX7HU
  
• Alex Lennon: We’re changing the world today astralship.org #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/xNf0sA7zeP
  
• Dan Lynch: Alex Lennon makespacelive Typo there #weeknotes 😉
• Alex Lennon: The groups are sharing their results at the end of the day here at the astralship.org #unconference #changetheworld #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/jepabgu8dl
  
• DoES Liverpool: Here’s some pics from our #repaircafe earlier today, including star item, a Grundig radiogram #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/9ku7GTacJZ
  
  
  
  

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Somebody Should

The DoES Liverpool to-do list is stored in the issues of our Somebody Should repository on github. Head over there if there’s something you’d like to report, or if you want to help out fixing things.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 279 open, 1019 closed

9 new issues:

• Make a table-top mini-wheeliepad
• Fix the mirror and shelf in the accessible toilet back to the wall
• Sophia ghosting when trying to cut out Permission to Make tags
• Make Use of Vertical Space for Storage
• Give the Rooms Names
• Christmas Food Bank Drive
• Make vinyl cut sign to ask people not to lean on Gerald
• Gerald front panel lock bent back
• Can we receive email from Arthur

Featured issue: Write some tweets/FB posts/etc. the Fabric District can send out to tell people what we offer. Can we move this on or close it?

4 issues closed:

• Gerald front panel lock bent back
• CNC Room has been left in a bad dusty state
• Order some more filament for the Ultimakers
• Make electricity a calculated and separate metric in the financial report

Thanks johnmckerrell, MatthewCroughan, jackie1050!

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Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.

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

• Adrian McEwen: Developments like this show me how important it is that the recent DoES Liverpool theory-of-change session included observations that we explore new tech “with a critical eye on sustainability, equality, and justice.” #weeknotes twitter.com/rachelcoldicut…
• Jess Shannon: I’m very pleased with my monstera leaf phone/watch charger and jewellery tree. Designed it on Sunday and laser cut in oak today, then used gold rub and buff on the edges. Just need to wire up the charger electronics DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/1wi7O7M4J6
  
  
• Alex Lennon: Happy Saturday guys! We’re here at the Pendulum Hotel ready to start live streaming OggCamp 2019!!!Watch us from 10:30 at youtu.be/ardp-z4-ROs
• Alex Lennon: All ready to go here thanks to Dan Lynch and the OggCamp team. After ten years it’s like a well oiled machine #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/BHdiq2TNzO
  
• Alex Lennon: I see Double2 Robot on the Loose has arrived OggCamp. You too can connect in remotely and join us! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/jtxUgZXRgG
  
• DoES Liverpool: Our second Repair Café is on Sunday 27th Oct 11am – 3pm!
  Last month our fantastic volunteers helped repair everything from vacuum cleaners to shirt collars.
  Save the date if you’ve got anything you need help with repairing and/or get in touch if you’d like to help out. #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/kZsbCvbNYb
  
• Alex Lennon: Nearly ready for the off, here at day two of the excellent adventure that is OggCamp. #LiveStream is here. Come and say hello! #weeknotesyoutu.be/oI76ZnizqvA pic.twitter.com/6rcVFe3MOo
  
• Alex Lennon: Here’s Julian Todd introducing Double2 Robot on the Loose to the OggCamp crew! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/YRzBasqWk6
  
• Alex Lennon: Interesting thoughts here from the #LinuxOutlaws on how future #OpenSource projects could come with data licensing limitations. Hmmm…. #weeknotes
• Jackie Pease: It’s Wearable Tech night DoES Liverpool this Tuesday 22nd October from 7 – 9pm.
  Everyone welcome, including beginners #weeknotes
  Photo shows tap dancer with in-shoe pressure sensors developed by members of the DoES Liverpool community as part of a collaborative project. pic.twitter.com/LBERbNFDYw
  

Coming Up in the Next Week

Somebody Should

The DoES Liverpool to-do list is stored in the issues of our Somebody Should repository on github. Head over there if there’s something you’d like to report, or if you want to help out fixing things.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 274 open, 1015 closed

11 new issues:

• Design and print A5 flyers for the Inclusive Economy event next Friday
• Mount Rob’s lovely artwork somewhere
• Need new batteries for the safety-nerd approved door opener
• Clean the CNC room and re-provision the PC
• Reorganise/clean label/vinyl/sublimation area.
• Dymo is printing three blank labels for each label it prints
• Write some tweets/FB posts/etc. the Fabric District can send out to tell people what we offer
• One of the chairs in Dinky is broken/breaking
• Door frame round laser-cutter room door needs repairing
• Oil filled radiator seems to trip the electrics
• Configure the DHCP server to hand out unchanging IP addresses to specific MAC addresses

Featured issue: Rear fire escape shutter is dysfunctional, does not close.. Can we move this on or close it?

3 issues closed:

• Need new batteries for the safety-nerd approved door opener
• Configure the DHCP server to hand out unchanging IP addresses to specific MAC addresses
• Prepare for Liverpool Open Studios – 12 October 2019

Thanks amcewen, johnmckerrell, DoESsean!

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Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.

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

• Ross Dalziel: ⚫️Alfred Chow – Maker of Things DoES Liverpool I’ve just picked them up and will be leaving on nikki pugh studio this afternoon #weeknotes
• Alex Lennon at #OggCamp on 19th: See this stuff? It took five minutes with these beautiful displays from abx-labs. I dunno how he’s getting them but I would snap them up (and I am 😉 #weeknotes twitter.com/embedded_iot/s…
• Ross Dalziel: All welcome to make #wearable #tech tomorrow night from 7pm DoES Liverpool We’ll be planning some future workshops & inevitably getting distracted by other cool stuff people do in DoES we can make wearable… new spin on #lifejackets maybe? #weeknotes twitter.com/embedded_iot/s…
• Alex Lennon at #OggCamp on 19th: Bell popped into DoES Liverpool to do some design tech. homework for school. A prototype lampshade design #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/89ufqesxve
  
• Jackie Pease: Discussing career opportunities, git repositories and #100DaysOfCode at Ladies of Code Liverpool meetup at @doesliverpool tonight #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/trHfPjTA41
  
• Skull Kid: Having a test #3dprinting of a replacement #amigacd32 d-pad at
  DoES Liverpool
  #weeknotes
  Design is thingiverse.com/thing:2562154 by jvdw007 pic.twitter.com/44SWvuZUla
  
  
  
  
• Sophie Green 🧜‍♀️: A full day DoES Liverpool laser cutting race medals for Dockside Runners Midday to Midnight 12 endurance event. A little light sanding, a coat of wax and a ribbon, and I’ll get them over the finish line. 🏁 #DocksideM2M #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/KuyFMxUoWE
  
• Jess Shannon: Had another go at cutting my Apollo Command Module earrings, much happier with how they turned out this time! Now to have a go at designing the LM DoES Liverpool #apollo #csm #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/DBTuyybmcV
  
• Not so small girl 😱: Today #notsosmallgirl sublimation printed a heat changing mug #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/bihy4qqXsF
  
• Alex Lennon at #OggCamp on 19th: I figure #brexit could be the making of this country. But just in case it all goes horribly wrong I’m checking in with how amazing UK produce can taste. Tonight: cheesey cottage pie. What could be better? #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/BxllzEIwvX
  
  
  
• Dr Mariaaaaaaaagh: Had a fabulous time being shown around DoES Liverpool yesterday by the fabulous Adrian McEwen and colleagues. And #notsosmallgirl did this #weeknotes twitter.com/smallgirltweet…
• Alex Lennon at #OggCamp on 19th: Bella’s 2nd lampshade prototype turned out nice at #MakerDay. Looking forward to seeing what it looks like when she’s had a go at the Acrylic bender at school… #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/2YLs7MXXJF
  
• Alex Lennon at #OggCamp on 19th: Been documenting our Ignatia Sensors Ltd #FirePrevention sensor prototype today, as developed with LCR4.0 and Sensor City. Now publishing up some live sensor telemetry via #mqtt to sensorcity.io #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/FZgbOgPfVU
  
  
• Jackie Pease: Outside and inside of prototype Icosahedron light – still waiting for a few more support panels to print… #weeknotes #plasticplaygroup pic.twitter.com/z4eSlsLTzN
  
  
• DoES Liverpool: Nice thank you note and a few beers from the organisers of “This is what I came here to do” exhibition held downstairs from @doesliverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/0vrI2M2Chz
  
  

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Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.

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

• DoES Liverpool: Mick Coyle Rachel Fitzsimmons An update from yesterday’s #RepairCafe: thanks to some hard work from Sue Archer and RepairBear plus a touch of #3DPrinting the umbrella is back up and running! We left the repair uncovered as a nod to Festival of Maintenance speaker tomofholland‘s #VisibleMending. #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/nOO89NC1CW
  
  
  
• Alex Lennon: Andy Stanford-Clark DoES Liverpool #weeknotes
• Alex Lennon: We have 80 $25 loans to be made this month. Please RT, follow us, and suggest a group or individual to make a loan to below… #weeknoteskiva.org/i/U1qZXmHC493 via Kiva
• Mersey SEO: From original artwork by BeesCrafts (MrsMerseySEO), expertly rendered by Dune Design & prototypes produced by muggins the unpaid help : coming soon to a Folksy shop near you! Produced using the dye sublimation kit at the Mersey SEO nest – DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/Nm591XZVOP
  
  

• Adrian McEwen: Have now submitted the DoES Liverpool, MCQN Ltd and my personal websites (as none are on .uk domains) for consideration for the UK Web Archive. Pretty simple task, it turns out webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/info/n… #weeknotes twitter.com/amcewen/status…
• Alex Lennon: So I got blink and trail going on my #IceCore! Now to work out how to get a #riscv core in there! Al #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/QUOVb6Rsnr
  
• Ross Dalziel: oooh CriticalKits Jackie Pease Plastic Tactics this looks like an interesting #kit for the #CriticalKit #Library & also powered by #scousers #weeknotes twitter.com/littlepinkmake…
• DoES Liverpool: @doesliverpool and many artists and studios across Liverpool are opening their doors this Saturday 12th October for LOST19.
  It’s also Maker Day – an ideal time to visit our maker space, see some of the great stuff people have been making, and maybe even join in! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/npeRDZMJwW
  
  
  
• Jackie Pease: It’s Wearable Tech night DoES Liverpool this Tuesday 8th October from 7 – 9pm.
  Everyone welcome, including beginners #weeknotes github.com/DoESLiverpool/…
  Photo shows side-emitting optical fibre encased in heatpressed bubble wrap pic.twitter.com/jW3217GdQT
  
• Alex Lennon: So this might not look like a lot but what we have here is the #BlackIceMx running a minimal #RiscV core which is then loading a compiled application which blinks the LED and echoes over the serial port.I have no words for how cool it is we can do this with #opensource #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/O7N8bFWdlM
  
  

Coming Up in the Next Week

Somebody Should

The DoES Liverpool to-do list is stored in the issues of our Somebody Should repository on github. Head over there if there’s something you’d like to report, or if you want to help out fixing things.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 265 open, 1009 closed

9 new issues:

• Prepare for Liverpool Open Studios – 12 October 2019
• Order some new inks for the sublimation printer
• Order some more filament for the Ultimakers
• Additional admin support tasks?
• Consider smaller Dymo label printer to print labels for food in the fridge
• Install and run xlights on a hackspace computer to control the xmas lights
• Use docker-compose for deploying robochallenge
• Make the DoorBot RFID boards more secure
• Calculate the heat loss caused by laser ventilation using sensors

Featured issue: Prepare toilets. Can we move this on or close it?

10 issues closed:

• Switch to plastic-free tea bags or leaf tea
• Pay ICO fee
• Orange Pi’s and Octoprint are not so successful
• Setup for Repair Cafe
• A3 HP OfficeJet 7510 inket printer won’t print
• Gerald and Sophia cutting/alignment issues
• Set DNS for robochallenge.doesliverpool.com to point to the same host as robotwars.doesliverpool.com
• Display power used in KWh since midnight
• What could a Food and Technology day entail?
• We need a way of managing cover for opening and closing

Thanks ajlennon, johnmckerrell, MatthewCroughan, DoESsean!