Month: August 2024

Week 690 – A New Bauhaus

26th August 2024
"Week 690 – A New Bauhaus"

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:

Blog All Dog-eared Pages – my notes from reading Christopher Frayling’s “On Craftsmanship towards a new Bauhaus”

#Bauhaus#books#maker#craft#IndieMfg#weeknotes

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 26 August, 6:00pm-8:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 28 August, 6:00pm-8:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 29 August, 6:00pm-8:30pm Maker Night
Our free weekly evening meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.

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: 412 open, 1527 closed

2 new issues:

Featured issue: Overhaul Gerald and upgrade to Lightburn. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed

Week 689 – WeekNotes Upgrade, FreeCAD

20th August 2024
"Week 689 – WeekNotes Upgrade, FreeCAD"

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: So, all being well, in a short while I’ll get a DM from @DoESLiverpool asking if it can have my consent to include this post in the next #weeknotes

    🤞 assuming I’ve deployed the code correctly and haven’t broken it when I removed the final bits of testing protection

  • Adrian McEwen: Passed the next stage too *phew*

    Actually, if I tag this post with #weeknotes then I can test the image handling when it gets to publishing them.Not much more I can test until next Monday when we see if the new blog post gets created properly.


    Screenshot of a private mention from DoES Liverpool thanking me for replying to their earlier message asking for consent to use my posts.
  • Adrian McEwen: Spent the evening levelling up my #FreeCAD skills to model a stereo pot, including forays into shapebinders and the drafting workbench to create an array of parts.

    Slightly disappointed that the final step needed to export it to #Kicad merged all the bodies to a single one and so discarded all the different materials/colours I’d carefully constructed beforehand 🤣#weeknotes #ibal249


    Render of a 3D model of a potentiometer on a circuit board. The potentiometer is all a single grey colour.
  • Adrian McEwen: Still, it’s imported nicely into #Kicad and should let me get on with designing the case for it now.

    #weeknotes #ibal249 #FreeCAD #OSHW


    Rendering of a thin PCB which has a stereo potentiometer on it, flanked with two 3.5mm sockets. The edge of the @MCQN_Ltd@social.mcqn.com logo is visible on the silkscreen and there are mounting holes at each corner of the PCB
  • MCQN Ltd: We’ve got the trinocular microscope out today while we debug the latest production batch of Vicino NFC boards

    #weeknotes #ibal243 #NFC #RFID #OSHW #electronics #debugging


    Looking down on a white desk that has a microscope on it and a laptop to the right. The laptop screen is showing a picture of the view from the microscope and arrayed around the scope are some circuit boards, forceps, solder flux pen and cotton bud
  • Adrian McEwen: @MCQN_Ltd Probably shouldn’t have taken that photo while it’s looking at my failed attempt at some hot-air rework on that board 🤣

    At least that one wasn’t working before I attacked it. Those varicaps – the small black square with “52*K” printed on it – are tiny though. I’ve left the cleaning cotton bud in the attached photo for scale 😆#weeknotes


    View of part of a circuit board through a microscope. The main part visible on the board is a small black square with a couple of traces leading to it. What looks like a large white cloud is obscuring most of the view.

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 19 August, 6:00pm-8:00pm7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 21 August, 6:00pm-8:00pmLiverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 22 August, 5:00pm-8:00pmPVTV Creative Meet Up
Thursday 22 August, 6:00pm-8:30pmMaker Night
Our free weekly evening meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Sunday 25 August, 2:00pm-5:00pmPlastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop)
In a world with mountains of plastic and molehills of play, let’s get our spades out and shift the balance.Make new things from abandoned plastic with us. Plantpots, purses … pedalos?Shred plastic. Blend it. Meld scraps together with a heat gun. Make sheets. Laser cut it. CNC it. Stitch potato bags together with soldering iron? Make fabrics with a regular iron? What have we got, what can we make? We don’t know – let’s figure it out!
Two rules:
1. No Objectives – this is an aimless and wandering session.
2. Bring Your Own Initiative – this is an active session and we’ll help you get creative.
Every two weeks on a Sunday afternoon, between 2pm and 5pm.Facilitated by Plastic Tactics – follow on social for the latest updates, and to see what we make if you can’t be here in person:
http://instagram.com/plastacs
http://twitter.com/plastacs
http://facebook.com/plastictacticsliverpool

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: 411 open, 1527 closed

1 new issue:

Featured issue: Collect a list of people who sell things made at DoES. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

Thanks JackiePease!

Week 688 – Toothbrush, Riding with Rode, Sandpit Cover

12th August 2024
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"Week 688 – Toothbrush, Riding with Rode, Sandpit Cover"

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

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 12 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 14 August, 7:00pm-9:00pmLiverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 15 August, 7:00pm-9:30pmMaker Night
Our free weekly evening meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Saturday 17 August, 10:00am-5:00pmRepublic Merseyside Meeting
Sunday 18 August, 11:00am-3:00pmRepair Caf̩ Рget your free tickets here

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: 411 open, 1525 closed

3 new issues:

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?

No issues closed

Week 687 – Fridge Temperature, Credit Commons

5th August 2024
"Week 687 – Fridge Temperature, Credit Commons"

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

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 05 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 06 August, 6:30pm-9:30pmHack the Space Evening
Wednesday 07 August, 7:00pm-9:00pmLiverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 08 August, 9:00am-6:00pmJelly Liverpool
Thursday 08 August, 7:00pm-9:30pmMaker Night
Our free weekly evening meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Saturday 10 August, 12:00pm-6:00pmMaker Day
Our free monthly daytime meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Sunday 11 August, 2:00pm-5:00pmPlastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop)
In a world with mountains of plastic and molehills of play, let’s get our spades out and shift the balance.Make new things from abandoned plastic with us. Plantpots, purses … pedalos?Shred plastic. Blend it. Meld scraps together with a heat gun. Make sheets. Laser cut it. CNC it. Stitch potato bags together with soldering iron? Make fabrics with a regular iron? What have we got, what can we make? We don’t know – let’s figure it out!Two rules: 1. No Objectives – this is an aimless and wandering session.2. Bring Your Own Initiative – this is an active session and we’ll help you get creative.
Every two weeks on a Sunday afternoon, between 2pm and 5pm.Facilitated by Plastic Tactics – follow on social for the latest updates, and to see what we make if you can’t be here in person:
http://instagram.com/plastacs
http://twitter.com/plastacs
http://facebook.com/plastictacticsliverpool

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: 408 open, 1525 closed

5 new issues:

Featured issue: Make doors open more easily for people who have trouble with doors. Can we move this on or close it?

5 issues closed:

Thanks zarino, JackiePease, magman2112!

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