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
- Electric Flapjack: Time for #weeknotes: More CNC Router controller work, and the excitement of getting my first custom metalwork back.electricflapjack.com/blog/2019/1/21…
- Paul Fawkesley: #weeknotes: Got Fluidkeys working nicely with Mailvelope (webmail-based email envryption) as well as automatically setting up git and Github for signing & verifying commits 😀fluidkeys.com/weeknotes/week…
- Adrian McEwen: Given I’m speaking at North Wales Tech this evening, I’ve gone with the Welsh mug for my tea (and a slice of lemon drizzle cake, brought into DoES Liverpool by Jess Collinge) #FirstDayFreeWithCake #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/AczbkGhLnP
- Alex Lennon: Caroline Keep However amazing your make can be going it alone everything gets ten times better and ten times more fun if you do it as a part of a community, learning, contributing. #weeknotes
- DoES Liverpool: We’ve still got the collection box, in case anyone else wants to donate something! Thanks for organising and delivering the donations Samantha Colosimo! #weeknotes twitter.com/sjcolosimo/sta…
- Alex Lennon: Julian Todd #weeknotes
- Alex Lennon: Just been to the docs about this chest infection. He said “you’re not fit to work!” I said, “I could have told you that 20 years ago doctor!” #weeknotes
- Nate: ‘Week 4’ #weeknotes includes: moar user research! Stakeholder interviews! Planning! Designing! Carly Rae Jepsen! medium.com/@nathan_nowinh…
- John Cassidy: Antidote for man flu = LoRaWAN mapping in the rain in Wales. 18 gateways and hit Cannock in bad weather. #Weeknotes pic.twitter.com/ZacEmgsHaA
- Alex Lennon: Emma Bearman Solar powered balloons floating across the world. With neopixel displays you can point your LoRa radio board at to upload messages of love and peace x #weeknotes
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 28 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Wearables Group |
| Tuesday 29 January, 10:00am-3:00pm | Sale Sharks – Private Booking – Events Room |
| Thursday 31 January, 6:30pm-9:00pm | Maker Night |
| Sunday 03 February, 2:00pm-5:00pm | Introduction to Fusion 360 |
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: 307 open, 737 closed
10 new issues:
- Cut up spare L-shaped desk tops to use as CNC sacrificial beds
- Do something for World Book Day
- Please add me to the Github organisation!
- Register us with the TPS
- Belt sander – new belts needed?
- laser cut scale issues when transfering from inkscape
- Refit the door on Dinky
- Take a couple of good photos of Room 29
- Gerald’s gantry is skewed (s̶c̶r̶e̶w̶e̶d̶)
- Emergency light above east fire escape not working.
Featured issue: Work out and set up an induction process for the CNC router. Can we move this on or close it?
14 issues closed:
- Register us with the TPS
- Belt sander – new belts needed?
- Refit the door on Dinky
- Emergency light above east fire escape not working.
- Shopping Label in Github
- Door to Room 29 won’t shut
- Laser cutter didn’t stop cutting when “Pause” button pressed
- Saw blade broken in large bandsaw.
- Install overhead kitchen cupboards
- Flooring for the meeting room
- Install the required electrical circuits, sockets, etc.
- Buy some sublimation paper
- Can we get a hackspace hamster
- Add some scientifically-formulated-to-be-beneficial foodstuffs to the shopping list
Thanks johnmckerrell, willcrobinson, magman2112, amcewen, DoESsean!
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!