Month: February 2025

Week 713 – Hands-on Soldering, Synth Meetup

3rd February 2025
"Week 713 – Hands-on Soldering, Synth Meetup"

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

  • MCQN Ltd:We had a great turn out tonight for our hands-on soldering workshop at does.social/@DoESLiverpool.Teaching the basics of assembling your own Printed Circuit Board (PCB) were @huffeec & @amcewenThe workshop was so well received we may well run it again.

    #weeknotes #PCB #IOT #Liverpool

    A man stand in the foreground manipulating a microphone stand in the background is a large white table - the table contains various electronic equipment. Around the table sit 11 people awaiting the soldering workshop to begin.
    Adrian standing but leans on the table talking to Karen before the start of the PCB soldering workshop. In the foreground looking left is a man wearing a baseball hat, in the background behind Adrian is a man facing away in a red hoody with the word love on the right shoulder.
    A young women Mally sits at a Soldering table spot welding items. She has long hair over her draped over her shoulders obscuring her face. Her hands are outstretched holding a PCB.
    Mally is seen standing on the right of the photo, she is using a microscope on the table in front of her. The image from the microscope is projected on a large TV in the background. The PCB is seen with the letters MCQN and soldered components.
  • Adrian McEwen:@MCQN_Ltd it was a fun evening! Great to have another couple of dozen folk in the community who know their way round surface-mount soldering and how to wrangle a reflow oven 😀Thanks @defnetmedia for organising it; and @Knottyashcreative, @Snoof and Paul for helping out too!Hooking the trinocular microscope up to the massive telly in @DoESLiverpool worked really nicely for inspecting the boards after they were done.

    #weeknotes

  • Chris Huffee:@DoESLiverpool @Snoof
    And we’re there! Social energy indicator badge based on a design by @Snoof

  • DoES Liverpool:Setting up for today’s synth meetup (Saturday 1st February 11:00 – 17:00). Everyone welcome!

  • DoES Liverpool:New member Natalie:
    “First time ever using an embroidery machine after attending the Maker Night Thursday evening. After getting an introduction and testing designs, I have now committed to come every night and try new ideas.”

    Natalie using the embroidery machine

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 03 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 04 February, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening (Software)
Wednesday 05 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 06 February, 7:00pm-11:00pm LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Thursday 06 February, 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.
Friday 07 February, 7:30pm-11:00pm PVTV Fringe Flicks
Saturday 08 February, 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 09 February, 2:00pm-5:00pm Plastic 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: 420 open, 1582 closed

8 new issues:

Featured issue: Tony not engraving well. Can we move this on or close it?

8 issues closed:

Thanks pyrosyndicate, Robotorium, amcewen, JackiePease, johnmckerrell!

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