Month: January 2025

Week 712 – Telepresence, Event Space Pictures, EE NB-IoT

27th January 2025
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"Week 712 – Telepresence, Event Space Pictures, EE NB-IoT"

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!

Community Meeting/Hack the Space Day

At our last community meeting (see this Google Group post for some interim meeting minutes) we agreed that the next meeting would be on Sunday 2nd February, and that we would combine it with a Hack the Space day. Space hacking is planned to start at 10am with the community meeting from 1pm to 3pm.

Please come along for both if you can!

Things of Note

  • Julian sent this YouTube link of Alex showing one of the Major Tim Space participants round room 29 via the telepresence robot
  • From Neil:

Ignite Liverpool Open Call for Speakers

Are you one of our next speakers?

Ignite showcases Liverpool’s movers and shakers, creators, thinkers, tinkers, innovators and doers, makers and dreamers in a fast paced format designed to inspire. Do you want to inspire? Then sign up to talk on the 26th March.
We have had loads of different talks on a variety of subjects over the years, on topics ranging from Longevity to how the First World War started. And we would love to hear from you.
BUT STOP – we don’t just want you to talk but to encourage a friend and get them to share their passion. Go on, you know you want to.
Interested?  Then click here https://igniteliverpool.com/be-a-speaker/

  • DoES Liverpool:Coat repair done by Repair Café visitor Mai after her clothing item was mended and while she was waiting for one of the Repair Café volunteers to finish work on her microwave.
    Repair Café is on the third Sunday of each month from 11am – 3pm

    An olive green coat being held open to show a hand-stitched seam
  • DoES Liverpool:If you have never used the Does Liverpool events space or just used it to store your bike then here it is in all its glory.We’ve got to say Simon really put in a lot of work to make it look this good. He holds regular meetups for creatives. Check them out People Versus TVPhotos: Courtesy of Simon JonesIf you are interested in using the Space then here are a few more details: doesliverpool.com/services/hos
    The DoES Liverpool Event Space, with white and brick walls and a wooden floor. People are sitting on rows on white chairs, and there are some white tables too
    A performer standing in front of a wall with interesting light effects
    Ronda and Simon standing behind a white table with posters
    Rows of white chairs, with some people sitting
  • Adrian McEwen:This week we worked out that EE now (it was announced last year, not sure when it got turned on) has an NB-IoT network.We noticed because it decides to start dropping UDP packets after about 120KB of transfer, which is about 41% of the way through downloading a new firmware version.Turns out the devices we thought were in poor network coverage and wouldn’t update over the air had just chosen the EE network rather than the Vodafone one…#IoT #NBIoT #weeknotes

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 27 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 28 January, 6:45pm-9:00pm Liverpool Residents Action
Wednesday 29 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 30 January, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 30 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Merseyside Socialist Workers’ Party
Thursday 30 January, 7:00pm-9:30pm 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.
Saturday 01 February, 11:00am-5:00pm Liverpool Synth Meet
Sunday 02 February, 10:00am-1:00pm Hack the Space Day

Come along and work on anything that will make our space better e.g. putting together new work benches for the machine room, replacing the tables in the corner by the laser cutter room, PAT testing …
Sunday 02 February, 1:00pm – 3:00pm Community Meeting

Come along and have your say in how DoES Liverpool is run. Everyone welcome. Interim minutes from last meeting 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: 420 open, 1574 closed

5 new issues:

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

2 issues closed:

Thanks johnmckerrell, ajlennon!

Week 711 – ch32v003

20th January 2025
"Week 711 – ch32v003"

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: Looks like I’m back in ketosis #WeekNotes
  • Alex: Very interesting. Now did you know that an overweight male is supposed to take 3.7 litres a day? (Including water in food) #weeknotes
  • Chris Huffee:The race is on for these boards to be made, delivered and tested** before the @DoESLiverpool smd workshop on 29th.** including learning how to program the ch32v003. What could possibly go wrong…
    A panel of 12 identical white badge pcbs with black silkscreen. At the top is the steamengineers logo. Most prominently are the battery clip and wheel potentiometer. The potentially troublesome ch32v003 microcontroller is hardly visible at all.

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 20 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 22 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 23 January, 7:00pm-9:30pm 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.
Sunday 26 January, 10:00am-5:30pm Palestine Solidarity Group
Sunday 26 January, 2:00pm-5:00pm Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop) – Last one of the year!
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: 417 open, 1572 closed

10 new issues:

Featured issue: Install a hearing loop inside event rooms. Can we move this on or close it?

8 issues closed:

Thanks pyrosyndicate, amcewen, BeckaLawson, JackiePease, huffeec, johnmckerrell!

Week 710 – Soldering Workshop, I2S, Upcycling

13th January 2025
"Week 710 – Soldering Workshop, I2S, Upcycling"

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!

Free PCB Soldering Workshop – Wednesday 29th January 18:00 – 21:00

Come join us at DoES Liverpool for a hands-on soldering workshop where you’ll learn the basics of assembling your own Printed Circuit Board (PCB). Our experienced instructors will guide you through the process step by step, so no prior experience is necessary. This is a great opportunity to dive into the world of electronics and gain a new skill. Don’t miss out on this chance to get creative and learn something new!

Things of Note

  • Jo Walsh:publish and be damned, started out writing #weeknotes about inspiring visits from guest researchers and making time for weird prototypes, ended up just pasting my internal vent about the organisational side-effects of JIRA into a web page, but I stand by every wordukceh-rse.github.io/weeknotes/
  • DoES Liverpool:From Thursday’s Maker Night:
    Jamie modelling her lovely new jacket, which she created by carefully cutting and resewing a silk t shirt.

    Jamie, standing in our Fibre Arts room, wearing pearls, a rose-patterned white jacket with white fringed tie at the waist, green sequin dress, white patterned ties and white sequin Mary Jane shoes
    A rose-patterned white silk t shirt on a green cutting board

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 13 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 14 January, 7:30pm-9:30pm PVTV Creative Meetup
Wednesday 15 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 16 January, 7:00pm-9:30pm 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.
Sunday 19 January, 11:00am-3:00pm Repair Café

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: 414 open, 1565 closed

1 new issue:

Featured issue: Install a great AV setup for the events room. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

Thanks amcewen, magman2112!

Week 709 – AudioBookShelf, Dublin Friends

6th January 2025
"Week 709 – AudioBookShelf, Dublin Friends"

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:Been trying to setup audiobooks with #HomeAssistant. Things are neat. I have AudioBookShelf and have setup an account with @RNIB for my dad.  And I’ve downloaded a couple of what look like great books and am now seeing if he can login on his webbrowser and play them 😀 #weeknotes

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 06 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 07 January, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening
Wednesday 08 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 08 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm LivLUG (Liverpool Linux User Group) https://livlug.org.uk
Thursday 09 January, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 09 January, 7:00pm-9:30pm 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.
Saturday 11 January, 12:00pm-6:00pm Maker 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 12 January, 2:00pm-5:00pm Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop) – Last one of the year!
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: 415 open, 1563 closed

No new issues

Featured issue: Work out and set up an induction process for the CNC router. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

Thanks amcewen!

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