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
- Jackie Pease: ‘What Does Health Look Like?’ event on 29 September – get your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-does-he… #weeknotes twitter.com/Laura_pullig/s…
- Ross Dalziel: Busy maintaining & making in the north so can’t make Festival of Maintenance on 22nd Sept? No worries DoES Liverpool have got you covered with a live stream of all the talks! eventbrite.co.uk/e/festival-of-… Eventbrite UK #weeknotes
- Ross Dalziel: Mark Miodownik so gutted to be missing this Mark 🙁 you might be interested in Festival of Maintenance
in London on Sept 22nd and streaming DoES Liverpool #weeknotes ti.to/festival-of-ma… tho’ Hope it goes well - Will Robinson: Stopped off at DoES Liverpool to find John McKerrell and Adrian McEwen hard at work maintaining the doorbots! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/UofflRTku6
- DoES Liverpool: madjake and paulgeering deconstructing Furbys for “science” #weeknotes instagram.com/p/Bnrly6rH1lp/…
- John McKerrell: And here’s the view from above #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/PMWKZA1Ooc
- DoES Liverpool: If you’re in London on 22nd Sept then you should definitely visit Festival of Maintenance (see below). But if you’re not, then luckily DoES Liverpool have got you covered with a live stream of all the talks! Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/festival-of-… Eventbrite UK #weeknotes twitter.com/amcewen/status…
- thingomy: D20 made of smelly stuff #kombucha DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/BxyeY27ZC8
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Wednesday 19 September, 6:30pm-8:00pm | Friends of the Earth |
| Thursday 20 September, 6:30pm-9:00pm | Maker Night |
| Thursday 20 September, 7:00pm-8:00pm | Community Meeting |
| Saturday 22 September, 9:30am-5:30pm | Festival of Maintenance |
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.
Issue counts: 286 open, 629 closed
12 new issues:
- Break the Doorbots code into multiple daemons
- Automate testing of the doorbots
- Make the big green “exit” button for main door more obvious
- When we get our static IP back, re-enable the whitelist on the phones
- Gerald slipping on x axis
- The bed raising mechanism on Gerald is prone to slipping.
- Gerald is stalling on the y-axis
- Change title of Lauras event on Sat 29th to What does Health look like
- Make a BioMaterials talk and Apply to September 18 Ignite Liv
- Organise the live stream event of the Festival of Maintenance
- Doorbot 4 & 5 Raspberry Pi’s might be fragile
- Spare air assist laser cutting tube needs replacing
Featured issue: status.doesliverpool.com is down. Can we move this on or close it?
9 issues closed:
- Gerald is stalling on the y-axis
- Change title of Lauras event on Sat 29th to What does Health look like
- Doorbot 4 & 5 Raspberry Pi’s might be fragile
- Spare air assist laser cutting tube needs replacing
- Need to replace the belt on the x-axis on Gerald
- Test Sony HDV Camera for Live Streaming.
- Lock on our more accessible toilet door is quite hard to use
- Gerald’s bed needs levelling
- Gerald has misplaced a screw
Thanks magman2112, johnmckerrell, ajlennon!
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!