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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!

Covid-19

Click here for details of the measures we’re currently taking related to the COVID-19 situation. We’ll keep you updated if anything changes – make sure you’re following us via our Google Group, and/or via social media

Get Visors Into The Hands of Health Care Workers

We’re working with hospitals across Liverpool, Manchester and beyond to produce effective, low-cost visors, to help healthcare professionals keep doing their job throughout this crisis.

Click here to find out more and donate.

And makers, please get in touch if you’d like to help with production.

Things of Note

• Alex Lennon: First ever print in PETG and on the Creality! Yay! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/kc1B0co4Ku
  
• Adrian McEwen: Loving our new packing boxes. They fit 500 in perfectly 👌 This box takes us over 4000 #COVID19 visors shipped from DoES Liverpool 🎉✊ #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/lExJiNHLRu
  
• Ross Dalziel: The full of noises #newsletter is out CVAN North West The Double Negative 🇪🇺 with news of 24hr dawn chorus around the world on lockdown #weeknotes twitter.com/fullofnoises/s…
• Adrian McEwen: Latest DoES Liverpool #COVID19 visor update: 6241 produced, packed and shipped #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/w8xDp3NRY3
  
• Adrian McEwen: Saturday morning #COVID19 #visor #lasercutting here at DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/oXEUpSdJ71
  
• SandboxWorkshop: These hundred visor straps brought us to 1000 total as part of the DoES Liverpool effort! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/YgMkvHtdYy
  

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: 332 open, 1106 closed

8 new issues:

• Order some new nitrile gloves
• Have phone in the Event Room ring for outside calls
• Buy new labels for the Dymo Printer
• Buy new toner cartridges for Mike’s HP LaserJet 200 color M251N
• Buy a new toner cartridge for th HP Laser Jet Pro M402dn black and white printer
• Buy tweezers/forceps for workshop and first aid boxes
• Get an eye wash station to wall mount in the workshop area
• Buy new scalpels, blades and sharps disposal boxes

2 issues closed:

• Gerald needs a new tube
• Running out of door fobs

Thanks JackiePease!

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• Weeknotes
• Comments Off on Week 463 – Lots of Visors!

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!

Covid-19

Click here for details of the measures we’re currently taking related to the COVID-19 situation. We’ll keep you updated if anything changes – make sure you’re following us via our Google Group, and/or via social media

Get Visors Into The Hands of Health Care Workers

We’re working with hospitals across Liverpool, Manchester and beyond to produce effective, low-cost visors, to help healthcare professionals keep doing their job throughout this crisis.

Click here to find out more and donate.

And makers, please get in touch if you’d like to help with production.

Things of Note

• Adrian McEwen: More visors from the DoES Liverpool production line destined for delivery to hospitals in Liverpool and Manchester. 740 visors in 3 orders today, another 200 completed awaiting packing #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/ht3gAy7dMF
  
  
• DoES Liverpool: Join us for a video chat with laura pullig Ross Dalziel for our #wearables #wearabletech meetup later from 7pm at meet.jit.si/bubblino We’ll be sharing DIY domestic dyeing ideas (& would love contributions!) & updates from Jackie Pease on the DoES PPE effort #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/6FOy5uA1N5
  
• Adrian McEwen: Our first 3D printed order finally ready today, 220 of the 3DVerkstan design, which started over a week before the laser-cutting, the two printers were overtaken by one laser-cutter in about a day #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/gAjaThLfjr
  
  
• Jackie Pease: Our low tech #lockdown activity at @doesliverpool Wearable Tech group is to investigate #naturaldye – I collected onion skins and simmered them in water for a few hours, then sieved and used the resulting liquid to dye an old white top #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/4Fjt2wsvk9
  
  
  
• Adrian McEwen: This is what 20 assembled laser-cut visors look like, just gave dave_coffee a quick lesson in assembly 😀 #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/oFHt8VTmmD
  
• CriticalKits: FYI this is what #critical #kits look like. What collectives of macro-organisms like DoES Liverpool can do together in the face of crisis ✊😷 ppe.doesliverpool.com #weeknotes twitter.com/amcewen/status…
• Adrian McEwen: Stoked to hear from V. Mitch McEwen that they’ve been cutting the DoES Liverpool #Covid_19 visor design over in the US and it’s helping health workers there too. Part of Princeton School of Architecture’s work in the pandemic, detailed at box.princeton.edu/rapid-response… #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/RJd1JYUlhc
  
• Adrian McEwen: Another thousand visors ready to pack here at DoES Liverpool, taking us to 2766 visors made in total. #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/JYDze4S5Jj
  
  
• DoES Liverpool: Our laser cutter Gerald got a new tube today, ready to cut out more visor bands #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/HHvg8mpJsj
  
  

Coming Up in the Next Week

Thursday 23 April, 7:00pm – 9:30pm Maker Night Online

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: 325 open, 1103 closed

7 new issues:

• The tube feeding Gerald’s air assist had burned through
• Gerald needs a new tube
• Unable to connect to doorbot2
• There’s no hot water in the kitchen
• Running out of door fobs
• Found USB dongle in need of repair
• Laser settings confirmation?

4 issues closed:

• The tube feeding Gerald’s air assist had burned through
• Unable to connect to doorbot2
• Laser settings confirmation?
• Add some biocide to the coolant for the laser-cutters

Thanks Sean-anotherone, johnmckerrell, amcewen!

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• Weeknotes
• Comments Off on Week 462 – Visor Making , Volunteers Wanted!

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!

Covid-19

Click here for details of the measures we’re currently taking related to the COVID-19 situation. We’ll keep you updated if anything changes – make sure you’re following us via our Google Group, and/or via social media

Get Visors Into The Hands of Health Care Workers

We’re working with hospitals across Liverpool, Manchester and beyond to produce effective, low-cost visors, to help healthcare professionals keep doing their job throughout this crisis.

Click here to find out more and donate.

And makers, please get in touch if you’d like to help with production.

Things of Note

• Arthur: Visor tests complete on our newly commissioned laser cutter – ready to start producing visor headbands for DoES Liverpool PPE project ⚡
  #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/E61j3TTSux
  
• Alex Lennon: That’s what I’m talking about. Beef Wellington sous-vide #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/B0tRZCKKZX
  
• Alex Lennon: Here’s the #PPE interview we did DoES Liverpool with @lpoollocaltv #weeknotesliverpoollocal.tv/videos/making-…
• Alex Lennon: Five of the Creality #creality3d Ender3’s have arrived for the ongoing #PPE effort DoES Liverpool. Just need to find time to set them up now! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/JuG1VVw7ph
  
• Alex Lennon: We’ve had a lot of feedback about the #PPE site and the amazing team DoES Liverpool have redesigned it in response. I am literally in AWE of what an ad-hoc team of people can come together to do when motivated for the right reasons. #weeknotes ppe.doesliverpool.com
  DoES Liverpool: Want to help us laser cut visors for healthcare workers – find out how to volunteer here: github.com/DoESLiverpool/… #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/YL5C1Tywe0
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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: 322 open, 1099 closed

5 new issues:

• A3 Printer HP OfficeJet 7510 not working
• Doorbot 4 not working
• Face mask making volunteer required?
• Shutter Door won’t close
• Shutter doorbot isn’t reading cards

Featured issue: Get new 20mm o-rings to go behind the intermediate mirrors. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

• Face mask making volunteer required?
• Shutter Door won’t close

Thanks JackiePease, amcewen!

• weeknotes
• Weeknotes
• Comments Off on Week 461 – Making Visors For Health Care Workers

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!

Covid-19

Click here for details of the measures we’re currently taking related to the COVID-19 situation. We’ll keep you updated if anything changes – make sure you’re following us via our Google Group, and/or via social media

Get Visors Into The Hands of Health Care Workers

We’re working with hospitals across Liverpool, Manchester and beyond to produce effective, low-cost visors, to help healthcare professionals keep doing their job throughout this crisis.

Click here to find out more and donate.

And makers, please get in touch if you’d like to help with production.

Things of Note

• Alex Lennon: Some AMAZING good news amongst all the worry! Max Zadow and I put a DoES Liverpool #PPE project plan into Helpful Engineering on Friday and the team there have accepted our project! #weeknotes #doescovidresponse pic.twitter.com/k68SIl9ZQu
  
• thewarineveryword: The full face shield masks at The Royal Liverpool are too heavy! Something to bear in mind, might seem light enough for a short test, something to consider in testing #weeknotes
• Thomas Butler: I made an led flash!(Using a home built 6502 based microcontroller that I’ve spent 2 weeks building and programmed in assembly code to use timer interrupts to flash all pins of 8 bit ports A & B on a 6532)DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/MWg13fzJIN
  
• Jackie Pease: Freelance journalist Vicky filming DoES Liverpool yesterday and interviewing Alex Lennon about our #COVID2019 visor project #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/859Jf3XAoE
  
  
• Jackie Pease: Some pictures from today’s #COVID19 visor cutting @doesliverpool: laser cutting, cleaning the visor supports #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/gdaNizH50a
  
  
• Jackie Pease: … chris huffee and Karl Dunkerley making shields, Adrian McEwen cleaning the laser cutter at the end of the day – it’s beginning to look like a production line! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/u6P09Nz5qC
  
  
  
• Thomas Butler: My 6502 computer is coming on leaps and bounds…It now has:
  16kB RAM
  32kB EEPROM
  16 I/O pins
  A 16×2 character output LCDAdd a serial port (and a few supporting functions as an os) and it should be able to run basic!DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/qqO7P1QUj3
  

Coming Up in the Next Week

Thursday 09 April, 7:00pm – 9:30pm    Maker Night online at https://meet.jit.si/bubblino

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: 319 open, 1097 closed

No new issues

Featured issue: Perform an audit of the small tools, etc in the Workshop. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

• Submit company accounts for 2018-2019 period

Thanks johnmckerrell!