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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

• Martin Dunschen: The new #CNC for DoES Liverpool is out of the box, with a bit of swearing by Julian Todd just needs a space in new workshop now #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/rqAUaOIeo2
  
• Alex Lennon: The Tapestry DoES Liverpool Fabric District #Innovation in action! #weeknotes #lora #lorawan IoT Liverpool Meetup Andy Stanford-Clark pic.twitter.com/KQbIQaUa3n
  
• DoES Liverpool: Julian Todd varnishing the last part of the floor in the main space, following what seems like weeks of floor scrubbing #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/KtgdQb572q
  
• Zarino Zappia: WHEEEEE!! DoES Liverpool did it!! £7250 of community backing, to fit out the new space The Tapestry. Amazeballs! crowdfunder.co.uk/does-liverpool… #weeknotes twitter.com/zarino/status/…
• Adrian McEwen: Things I learnt about people by doing a huge office/makerspace move: John McKerrell really likes hitting things with hammers #DoESMove #weeknotes
• Adrian McEwen: I have found the DoES Liverpool phone! John McKerrell will be happy! Mise en scene for context in case he needs to find more bits of it 🙂 #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/9q4FWR4tH6
  
• Alex Lennon: Here’s Julian Todd demoing some really, really neat MicroPython code he’s written to autodetect #I2C sensors on a #lora #TTGO platform. He’s putting together a “box of sensors” for people to play with DoES Liverpool #weeknotesyoutube.com/watch?v=6SW7v8…
• Jackie Pease: Testing lights for a samba backpack for Liverpool MakeFest with Zarino Zappia and Uma Ramanathan and Mandy from Brouhaha at DoES Liverpool last night #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/tip2hOVwOT
  
• DoES Liverpool: More progress, another room almost ready for use! #weeknotes @ Liverpool, UK instagram.com/p/BhwSKgHnUWa/
• MCQN Ltd: How high can you stack museuminabox_? #ibal151 #weeknotes @ Shoreditch instagram.com/p/BhykGHhnE0m/
• Alex Lennon: With Julian Todd and the lovely people from Marine Quest in Eyemout, setting off to dive the U74E submarine #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/kF310rJX1w
  
  
• John McKerrell: It seems entirely appropriate that DoES Liverpool would have this as baby change facility from Screwfix, baby won’t wriggle while you change that messy nappy! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/X4hGiOb0oP
  

Coming Up in the Next Week

The Big Move

Did you hear, we’ve moved to The Tapestry, just off London Road. We’re open for business, but while we’re settling in we’re including a brief update on how things are going each week.

As you can see from some of our tweets, the main space is beginning to look really good: the floor has been scrubbed and varnished, cabinets, work surfaces and desks have been installed, and a lot of the equipment is back in working order. Plywood flooring and painting in the metal workshop have now been completed, and we’ll be moving cabinets and CNC machines in there over the next couple of days.

Next target is Room 29 (the “quiet” room for coworking and permanent deskers).  Again we’re aiming to varnish the floor, but fortunately it doesn’t have the same layers of paint as in the main space, so shouldn’t take as long.

If you want to help out, check the DoES Move The Tapestry and DoES Move – Settling In labels on the Somebody Should issue list, or get in touch. All help appreciated and thanks to everyone for their work in getting us this far.

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: 246 open, 528 closed

14 new issues:

• Upholster the shelf in the meeting nook
• Look Into Ways to Advertise Events at DoES
• Fix or delete the inline Gostins address on https://doesliverpool.com/contact-us/
• Shallow (20cm?) storage solution for brick wall in kitchen?
• Install overhead kitchen cupboards
• Install worktop above / housing around dishwasher
• Paint the bannisters of the stairs
• Document dishwasher usage
• Build shelves for the new 3D printer cabinet
• Screw worktops onto the workbench frames
• Level the workbench frames
• Fix shelf in 3D printer supplies cupboard
• Check the alignment of Gerald
• Network socket in Event room (by safe) partially working

Featured issue: Improve workshop accessibility. Can we move this on or close it?

Featured issue: Paint all the plasterboard walls white. Can we move this on or close it?

Featured issue: Flooring in the metal workshop. Can we move this on or close it?

Featured issue: Flooring for the quiet coworking room (Room 29). Can we move this on or close it?

Featured issue: Flooring in the main room. Can we move this on or close it?

12 issues closed:

• Fix or delete the inline Gostins address on https://doesliverpool.com/contact-us/
• Paint the bannisters of the stairs
• Screw worktops onto the workbench frames
• Network socket in Event room (by safe) partially working
• Make the “door phone” more obvious in multiple rooms
• Request a nonprofit GitHub account for the DoES Liverpool organisation
• Move the dissassembled “new to us” laser cutter from events room
• Promote our Crowdfunder campaign far, wide and often!
• Work out layout of the kitchen
• Confirm what’s going in the small, open workshop “room” to the left as you enter the Tapestry space
• Help Chris and Helen with crowdfunding ideas
• Fix Inkscape on the vinyl cutter PC

Thanks johnmckerrell, ajlennon, magman2112, jackie1050, zarino!

Community Content

DoES exists to support the community that uses DoES. If you use DoES, then you are part of that community. If you would like to publicise something related to DoES, you can email hello@doesliverpool.com with the formatted content for us to use as a new blog post. Tell us what you’re up to, and we’ll show the world what epic stuff happens at DoES!