Week 423 – (#DMX WiFi-controlled #neopixel #LED #3Dprinted) glowing netballs

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

• Adrian McEwen: I seem to have spent all day trying *all* of the methods for importing graphics into KiCad PCB. Got some very nice silkscreen work from George Oates on the Museum in a Box PCB now though #weeknotes
• Alex Lennon: Back home now and Bella did a rather wonderful carrot, raisin and pecan cake for my return to DoES Liverpool tomorrow… #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/ZY8f126wgG
  
• Adrian McEwen: Yesterday was all about #PCB design and living in #Kicad. Today is firing up the #reflow oven and soldering up a batch of #LFC PCB #6TimesCuplinks cufflinks #wearables #ibal211 mcqn.com/lfc #weeknotes
• MCQN Ltd: Batch #6TimesCuplinks #LFC cufflinks production#PCB #reflow #soldering #ibal211 #manufacturing #batch #production #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/y1D2cICgHW
  
• Adrian McEwen: Interesting read from David Epstein about how generalism is better than specialism. Hadn’t really thought about how the approach of aiming for diversity and cross-pollination that we took with DoES Liverpool is revolutionary #weeknotes theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
• Jackie Pease: Special thanks to Zarino Zappia for sorting out all the last minute stuff #weeknotes twitter.com/DoESLiverpool/…
• Adrian McEwen: I saw these while they were being developed and they looked awesome! #weeknotes twitter.com/DoESLiverpool/…
• Adrian McEwen: Would you look at these (#DMX WiFi-controlled #neopixel #LED #3Dprinted) glowing netballs that Jackie Pease and Zarino Zappia made in DoES Liverpool for the opening ceremony of the Netball World Championships 😍😍😍 #ThisIsNetball #NWC2019 #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/6x53U13Etr
  
• Adrian McEwen: There’s now no excuse for anyone in another country to not make it to DoES Liverpool‘s birthday party this evening 😀 (Sadly we haven’t worked out the telepresence cake and beer…) #weeknotes twitter.com/wheeliepad/sta…
• Naomi Turner: Just in time #weeknotes – 5:2019. Strategic showing the thing, sticking plasters, PRing the absolute living daylights out of Festival of Maintenance, the auratic quality of the aura medium.com/@Naomi_Turner/…
• Alex Lennon: It’s another beautiful day. Just pitched up DoES Liverpool. Let the #iot innovation commence! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/fCqprx5msy
  
• Alex Lennon: Made some pretty good progress #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/xOCzhKPZv7
  

Coming Up in the Next Week

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: 279 open, 900 closed

6 new issues:

• Make a note of all the settings in Sophia and Gerald
• Propose a victory round of applause for the number of issues Sean is closing down
• Display power used in KWh since midnight
• Please add me to the Github organisation
• Weeknotes Generator doesn’t seem to have generated any Weeknotes for Week 422
• Gerald not cutting or engravin on full power

Featured issue: Construct the crowdfunder reward “Wall of Heroes”. Can we move this on or close it?

21 issues closed:

• Propose a victory round of applause for the number of issues Sean is closing down
• Please add me to the Github organisation
• Gerald not cutting or engravin on full power
• Laser cutters warp/distort output seemingly randomly
• Document/diagram the building entrance dimensions
• We have a leaky pipe!
• Vinyl cut the building number for over the door
• Hold a book sale for DoES
• Accept Bitcoin payments via Lightning Network for snacks
• doesliverpool.com – no SPF record present
• Make protective equipment easy to access at the entrance to the metal workshop
• Make new “Wall of Social History 2” sign
• Roland the vinyl cutter spools 1½ metres of blank space before cutting
• Setting up a Laser Maintenance Crew
• Have a dustpan and brush for every workshop area
• Issues with the availability of alcohol on-premises during events
• Do something about smoothing OSB before painting
• General solution to cardboard boxes and lasercut ply scrap
• do a major service on sophia
• Develop an iPhone/Android app to open and close the new bin
• makernight.co.uk should be updated or just redirect to somewhere on doesliverpool.com

Thanks ajlennon, chris-does, gbowman85, DoESsean, johnmckerrell!