Weeknotes

Week 720 – AR, OSHWA, Spoonbots

24th March 2025
"Week 720 – AR, OSHWA, Spoonbots"

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!

Wirral MakeFest

We’re taking part in Wirral MakeFest on Saturday 10th May at Birkenhead Central Library. If you’ve got things you’d like to display and/or you’d like to help with organisation, please get in touch (and there’s a GitHub issue here that you can add your details to).

Liverpool MakeFest is on Saturday 5th July, so time to start thinking about that too (GitHub issue here).

Sashiko Sip and Sew Event – Saturday 29th March

Liz is running a Sashiko Sip and Sew Event at DoES Liverpool this Saturday, described as a relaxed afternoon of stitching which makes a great Mother’s Day gift – more details here.

Trip to North West Computer Museum and Leigh Hackspace – Saturday 29th March

Also on Saturday, the DoES Epic Trip to Leigh is this Saturday 29th March. You can follow the discussion in our Google Group here. We’ve got a WhatsApp group to arrange car sharing, so please get in touch if you want to go.

Things of Note

A little demonstration at @DoESLiverpool of our mixed reality VR project #SafeAR, undertaken with support from

@STFC_Matters
@STFC_B2B
@UKRI_News

It went really well and we’re very excited about collaborating with others to take this forward! #WeekNotes

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 24 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Monday 24 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm PVTV Creative Meeting
Wednesday 26 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 27 March, 6:00pm-8:30pm Good Gym Liverpool
Thursday 27 March, 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.
Saturday 29 March, 1:30pm-5:30pm Sashiko Workshop

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: 429 open, 1598 closed

1 new issue:

Featured issue: Reduce the draughts in the space. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed

Week 719 – Stealing Sheep GloRide, Printer Envy

17th March 2025
"Week 719 – Stealing Sheep GloRide, Printer Envy"

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!

Community Meeting

Jake T has posted the minutes from the March community meeting. You can find them here. The next community meeting is at 13:00 on Sunday 6th of April, with Hack the Space Day from 10:00.

Things of Note

MCQN Ltd:

We had a really good #MYBikesGotLED fitting session last night at @DoESLiverpool This was all in preparation for #StealingSheep band’s performance tonight.

We’ve put a lot of effort into getting people along and make the whole event #Glo for the #GloRide.

The lights were riding out the door as fast as we could fit them.

#weeknotes #GloRide #StealingSheep #ListeningParties #GloRide #joyride #LiverpoolMusiccity

Stealing sheep the band in the DoES liverpool events space - a man sits at a white table while the room is dotted with people fitting lights to bikes and poking at devices to control them.
3d printed enclosure. Predominantly white but with a blue mcqn logo on the bottom right and a pink enclosure with a yellow mcqn logo
The the white DoES Liverpool Events space, Guy stands looking westward while in the back ground Stewart and Adrian look down at Stewart's bike. A gentle orange glow from Stew's My Bikes Git LED lights up their faces.
  • Andy Green (the 3D printing one), emailed this photo of his artwork, “Memories of Matsushima”. After laser cutting and sanding, he tinted the birch ply with Yorkshire tea and matcha green tea, and it’s now on its way to Japan.

A layered plywood scene featuring outline boat trees and bridge

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 17 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 18 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm XR Liverpool
Wednesday 19 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 20 March, 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.
Sunday 23 March, 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: 428 open, 1598 closed

4 new issues:

Featured issue: Fill in CIC34 form for 2024-2025 year. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed

Week 718 – Plaiting with LED Noodles and Bike Cables

10th March 2025
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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!

April Start Boost Membership

Please help us spread the word!
If you, or any of your friends, could do with a Boost to get a new idea off the ground (or even just to keep going…), then take a look at our Boost scheme – 6 months free desk or workshop membership here at DoES Liverpool, conveniently situated near the centre of the city. Join our innovative community!
It’s a draw so everyone has an equal chance.
https://doesliverpool.com/co-working/spring-boost/

Trip to North West Computer Museum and Leigh Hackspace

We’re organising a DoES Epic Trip to Leigh for 29th March. You can follow the discussion in our Google Group here. There are 7 people going so far, get in touch if you want to join us.

Things of Note

  • Adrian McEwen:Today’s task: find out if you can plait LED noodles with old gear/brake cables.First off, I need to dismantle the last quick LED noodle experiment, my quick-and-dirty rear bike arrow.#weeknotes #LED
  • Adrian McEwen:So, it seems that you can plait noodles and brake cables 😀Shortens the length of the LED quite a bit, and gives it an interesting wavy pattern. A little tricky to get a tight weave on the plait given the difference in strength/flexibility of the brake cable versus the noodle.#weeknotes #LED #plait #BikeTooter
    A loop made of plaited LED noodle and bike gear/brake cable, held by a set of long-nosed pliers. The handles of the pliers are resting on the edge of a table with the nose hanging over the edge. The loop is vertical in free air, and the LED noodle makes a wavy pattern due to the plaiting.

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 10 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 12 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 13 March, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 13 March, 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 14 March, 2:30pm-4:30pm 8th Wardrobe Talks
Sunday 16 March, 11:00am-3:00pm Repair Café

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: 424 open, 1598 closed

No new issues

Featured issue: Rework power plug/sockets for Sheila. Can we move this on or close it?

3 issues closed:

Thanks JackiePease, huffeec, pyrosyndicate!

Week 717 – Sublimation Printing and Embroidery

3rd March 2025
"Week 717 – Sublimation Printing and Embroidery"

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!

Trip to North West Computer Museum and Leigh Hackspace

We’re organising a DoES Epic Trip to Leigh for 26th March. You can follow the discussion in our Google Group here. There are 7 people going so far, get in touch if you want to join us.

Things of Note

Assim of Zanders Group (one of our permanent desk members) making good use of the sublimation printer in our workshop and supporting local charities with merchandise and print-on-demand services
and Terry produced this lovely interpretation of the Japanese Ajisai-sashi (hydrangea) woven embroidery pattern using Inkscape and the DoES Liverpool embroidery machine.

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 03 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 04 March, 1:00pm-3:00pm LCR Repair Week
Tuesday 04 March, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening (Software)
Wednesday 05 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 06 March, 7:00pm-11:00pm LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Thursday 06 March, 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.
Saturday 08 March, 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 March, 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: 426 open, 1596 closed

8 new issues:

Featured issue: Rework power plug/sockets for Sheila. Can we move this on or close it?

9 issues closed:

Thanks amcewen, JackiePease, magman2112!

Week 716 – Mixed Reality, Spaghetti Cutting

24th February 2025
"Week 716 – Mixed Reality, Spaghetti Cutting"

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!

Hack the Space Day/Community Meeting

It’s our monthly Hack the Space Day and Community Meeting this Sunday. Hack the Space Day from 10am, Community Meeting from 1pm. Please come along to either or both, have your say in how DoES Liverpool is run, and make it a better place.

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

 

Monday 24 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 25 February, 7:30pm-9:30pm PVTV Creative Meetup
Wednesday 26 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 27 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.
Sunday 02 March, 10:00am-1:00pm Hack the Space Day
Sunday 02 March, 1:00pm-3:00pm Community Meeting

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: 427 open, 1587 closed

1 new issue:

Featured issue: Rear fire escape shutter is dysfunctional, does not close.. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

Thanks johnmckerrell!

Week 715 – OSHWA, Cotton Reel Cake, Poodle

17th February 2025
"Week 715 – OSHWA, Cotton Reel Cake, Poodle"

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

steamengineers.co.uk/blog/refl

#electronics #soldering

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 17 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 18 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Wednesday 19 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 20 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.
Saturday 22 February, 2:00pm-3:30pm Merseyside Antifascist Network
Sunday 23 February, 2:00pm-5:00pm Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop) – Last one of the year!
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: 427 open, 1586 closed

4 new issues:

Featured issue: Hall sensor not working on homing. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

Thanks JackiePease!

Week 714 – Daisy Pollen, VLR, Soldering

10th February 2025
"Week 714 – Daisy Pollen, VLR, Soldering"

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

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 10 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 12 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 13 February, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 13 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.
Thursday 13 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Socialist Worker Students
Saturday 15 February, 2:00pm-4:00pm Socialist Alternative
Sunday 16 February, 11:00am-3:00pm Repair Café

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: 425 open, 1584 closed

7 new issues:

Featured issue: Work out and set up an induction process for the CNC router. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

Thanks huffeec, JackiePease!

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!

Week 712 – Telepresence, Event Space Pictures, EE NB-IoT

27th January 2025
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"Week 712 – Telepresence, Event Space Pictures, EE NB-IoT"

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!

Community Meeting/Hack the Space Day

At our last community meeting (see this Google Group post for some interim meeting minutes) we agreed that the next meeting would be on Sunday 2nd February, and that we would combine it with a Hack the Space day. Space hacking is planned to start at 10am with the community meeting from 1pm to 3pm.

Please come along for both if you can!

Things of Note

  • Julian sent this YouTube link of Alex showing one of the Major Tim Space participants round room 29 via the telepresence robot
  • From Neil:

Ignite Liverpool Open Call for Speakers

Are you one of our next speakers?

Ignite showcases Liverpool’s movers and shakers, creators, thinkers, tinkers, innovators and doers, makers and dreamers in a fast paced format designed to inspire. Do you want to inspire? Then sign up to talk on the 26th March.
We have had loads of different talks on a variety of subjects over the years, on topics ranging from Longevity to how the First World War started. And we would love to hear from you.
BUT STOP – we don’t just want you to talk but to encourage a friend and get them to share their passion. Go on, you know you want to.
Interested?  Then click here https://igniteliverpool.com/be-a-speaker/

  • DoES Liverpool:Coat repair done by Repair Café visitor Mai after her clothing item was mended and while she was waiting for one of the Repair Café volunteers to finish work on her microwave.
    Repair Café is on the third Sunday of each month from 11am – 3pm

    An olive green coat being held open to show a hand-stitched seam
  • DoES Liverpool:If you have never used the Does Liverpool events space or just used it to store your bike then here it is in all its glory.We’ve got to say Simon really put in a lot of work to make it look this good. He holds regular meetups for creatives. Check them out People Versus TVPhotos: Courtesy of Simon JonesIf you are interested in using the Space then here are a few more details: doesliverpool.com/services/hos
    The DoES Liverpool Event Space, with white and brick walls and a wooden floor. People are sitting on rows on white chairs, and there are some white tables too
    A performer standing in front of a wall with interesting light effects
    Ronda and Simon standing behind a white table with posters
    Rows of white chairs, with some people sitting
  • Adrian McEwen:This week we worked out that EE now (it was announced last year, not sure when it got turned on) has an NB-IoT network.We noticed because it decides to start dropping UDP packets after about 120KB of transfer, which is about 41% of the way through downloading a new firmware version.Turns out the devices we thought were in poor network coverage and wouldn’t update over the air had just chosen the EE network rather than the Vodafone one…#IoT #NBIoT #weeknotes

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 27 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 28 January, 6:45pm-9:00pm Liverpool Residents Action
Wednesday 29 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 30 January, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 30 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Merseyside Socialist Workers’ Party
Thursday 30 January, 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.
Saturday 01 February, 11:00am-5:00pm Liverpool Synth Meet
Sunday 02 February, 10:00am-1:00pm Hack the Space Day

Come along and work on anything that will make our space better e.g. putting together new work benches for the machine room, replacing the tables in the corner by the laser cutter room, PAT testing …
Sunday 02 February, 1:00pm – 3:00pm Community Meeting

Come along and have your say in how DoES Liverpool is run. Everyone welcome. Interim minutes from last meeting here.

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, 1574 closed

5 new issues:

Featured issue: Overhaul Gerald and upgrade to Lightburn. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

Thanks johnmckerrell, ajlennon!

Week 711 – ch32v003

20th January 2025
"Week 711 – ch32v003"

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

  • Alex: Looks like I’m back in ketosis #WeekNotes
  • Alex: Very interesting. Now did you know that an overweight male is supposed to take 3.7 litres a day? (Including water in food) #weeknotes
  • Chris Huffee:The race is on for these boards to be made, delivered and tested** before the @DoESLiverpool smd workshop on 29th.** including learning how to program the ch32v003. What could possibly go wrong…
    A panel of 12 identical white badge pcbs with black silkscreen. At the top is the steamengineers logo. Most prominently are the battery clip and wheel potentiometer. The potentially troublesome ch32v003 microcontroller is hardly visible at all.

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 20 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 22 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 23 January, 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.
Sunday 26 January, 10:00am-5:30pm Palestine Solidarity Group
Sunday 26 January, 2:00pm-5:00pm Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop) – Last one of the year!
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: 417 open, 1572 closed

10 new issues:

Featured issue: Install a hearing loop inside event rooms. Can we move this on or close it?

8 issues closed:

Thanks pyrosyndicate, amcewen, BeckaLawson, JackiePease, huffeec, johnmckerrell!

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