Weeknotes

Week 710 – Soldering Workshop, I2S, Upcycling

13th January 2025
"Week 710 – Soldering Workshop, I2S, Upcycling"

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!

Free PCB Soldering Workshop – Wednesday 29th January 18:00 – 21:00

Come join us at DoES Liverpool for a hands-on soldering workshop where you’ll learn the basics of assembling your own Printed Circuit Board (PCB). Our experienced instructors will guide you through the process step by step, so no prior experience is necessary. This is a great opportunity to dive into the world of electronics and gain a new skill. Don’t miss out on this chance to get creative and learn something new!

Things of Note

  • Jo Walsh:publish and be damned, started out writing #weeknotes about inspiring visits from guest researchers and making time for weird prototypes, ended up just pasting my internal vent about the organisational side-effects of JIRA into a web page, but I stand by every wordukceh-rse.github.io/weeknotes/
  • DoES Liverpool:From Thursday’s Maker Night:
    Jamie modelling her lovely new jacket, which she created by carefully cutting and resewing a silk t shirt.

    Jamie, standing in our Fibre Arts room, wearing pearls, a rose-patterned white jacket with white fringed tie at the waist, green sequin dress, white patterned ties and white sequin Mary Jane shoes
    A rose-patterned white silk t shirt on a green cutting board

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 13 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 14 January, 7:30pm-9:30pm PVTV Creative Meetup
Wednesday 15 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 16 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 19 January, 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: 414 open, 1565 closed

1 new issue:

Featured issue: Install a great AV setup for the events room. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

Thanks amcewen, magman2112!

Week 709 – AudioBookShelf, Dublin Friends

6th January 2025
"Week 709 – AudioBookShelf, Dublin Friends"

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 Lennon:Been trying to setup audiobooks with #HomeAssistant. Things are neat. I have AudioBookShelf and have setup an account with @RNIB for my dad.  And I’ve downloaded a couple of what look like great books and am now seeing if he can login on his webbrowser and play them 😀 #weeknotes

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 06 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 07 January, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening
Wednesday 08 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 08 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm LivLUG (Liverpool Linux User Group) https://livlug.org.uk
Thursday 09 January, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 09 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 11 January, 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 12 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: 415 open, 1563 closed

No new issues

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

1 issue closed:

Thanks amcewen!

Week 708 – Traces

30th December 2024
"Week 708 – Traces"

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!

Equitable Practice Trainer Accreditation

MadLab have asked us to share that they are “working with UCL’s Institute of Education to grow an international network of accredited trainers, who can build capacity in their regions for equitable and inclusive participation in informal STEM learning”.  Click here if you’re interested (and tell us if you decide to do the course!).

Things of Note

  • Adrian McEwen:Back on our hand-decoding USB from oscilloscope traces schtick.@huffeec pointed out that they’re Start-of-Frame packets rather than NAKs. (People who build protocols sending packets least-significant-bit first are even worse than those who use little-endian!)

    At least now I (think) we’re getting somewhere. Looks like the ESP32C3 is ignoring the computer for some reason.

    #weeknotes #ibal234 #ESP32 #electronics #USB

    An oscilloscope trace showing the tail end of one USB packet, a momentary pause, and then the start of the next one. That's indicated by two traces overlaid, which broadly show assorted square waves: one for D+ and one for D-, when they flip that shows a 0 and when they stay apart it indicates a 1; when both traces drop to their lowest points together that indicates the end of a packet. A couple of white cursor lines are also shown - they're set three bits apart to help as we scroll through the trace decoding the individual bits to then turn to bytes and then to USB packet types.

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 30 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Thursday 02 January, 7:00pm-11:00pm LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Thursday 02 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 04 January, 4:00pm-6:00pm DoES Liverpool Community Meeting aka. “Future Gazing”
Minutes from the previous 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: 416 open, 1562 closed

No new issues

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

No issues closed

Week 707 – It’s Christmas!

23rd December 2024
"Week 707 – It’s Christmas!"

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!

Christmas Opening Hours

It seems like we’re going to be fob holders only, except by prior arrangement, from the 23rd of December – Christmas falling midweek is giving people a chance to extend their festivities a bit, so we’re less likely to have someone here to let you in. We do still love you though, and will be back bright eyed and bushy tailed from 2nd January.

Happy Xmas from all of us!

DoESMas Party

We had an excellent party on Friday evening including everything from zine making and talks on AI and language learning, to party games (electronic and traditional), and Karaoke (of course).

Thanks to Kirsty and Neil for organising, and to all participants and attendees.

Here’s a few photos:

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

 

Monday 23 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 25 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party

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: 416 open, 1562 closed

3 new issues:

Featured issue: Create a “Cost of Being Epic” poster for the space (and online). Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

Thanks JackiePease!

Week 706 – Bikes, Fixing, Flying

16th December 2024
"Week 706 – Bikes, Fixing, Flying"

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!

🎅🎉🎁🔔🎄DoESMas! – DoES Bring & Share Xmas! – Friday 20th December from 4pm 🎅🎉🎁🔔🎄

It’s that time of year – so we’re inviting you again to help make the DoES end-of-year party super special!

Bring (if you can!):
– ⁠any friends who love a Xmas do
– some food for the potluck table and something for you to drink
– ⁠something small you’ve made (found, borrowed) for our Santa Lucky Dip

Share (if you like!):
– your best or worst of the year
– ⁠your hopes or plans for 2025
– ⁠your best tunes for our community karaoke

Let us know when you book your free ticket if you’d like to share anything and we’ll allocate a five-minute slot. Slots will also be available on the night. As will karaoke signups.

From 4pm so you can bring your family and friends

Dress like you made it.

Do lets us know if you can make it –  https://forms.gle/BKLD4jTdXWfkppHn9

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 16 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 18 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 19 December, 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 20 December, 4pm – late

🎅🎉🎁🔔🎄DoESMas! – DoES Bring & Share Xmas! 🎅🎉🎁🔔🎄
Sunday 22 December, 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(Bring along a Xmas sweetie tub lid and maybe you’ll be able to laser cut a reindeer…)

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: 414 open, 1561 closed

5 new issues:

Featured issue: Dispose of paint tins. Can we move this on or close it?

7 issues closed:

Thanks amcewen, JackiePease!

Week 705 – Boost Membership, Party, Synths

9th December 2024
"Week 705 – Boost Membership, Party, Synths"

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!

January 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/boost-your-new-year/

DoESMas! – DoES Bring & Share Xmas!

It’s that time of year – so we’re inviting you again to help make the DoES end-of-year party super special!

Bring (if you can!):
– ⁠any friends who love a Xmas do
– some food for the potluck table and something for you to drink
– ⁠something small you’ve made (found, borrowed) for our Santa Lucky Dip

Share (if you like!):
– your best or worst of the year
– ⁠your hopes or plans for 2025
– ⁠your best tunes for our community karaoke

Let us know when you book your free ticket if you’d like to share anything and we’ll allocate a five-minute slot. Slots will also be available on the night. As will karaoke signups.

From 4pm so you can bring your family and friends

Dress like you made it.

Do lets us know if you can make it –  https://forms.gle/BKLD4jTdXWfkppHn9

Things of Note

  • DoES Liverpool:A good attendance and plenty of synths at Liverpool Synth Meetup today, despite the weather.

    A group of people sat around a white table with synths and laptops

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 09 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 11 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 12 December, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 12 December, 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 12 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm Merseyside Socialist Workers’ Party
Saturday 14 December, 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 15 December, 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: 416 open, 1554 closed

1 new issue:

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

1 issue closed:

Thanks JackiePease!

Week 704 – Rudolph the pcb

2nd December 2024
"Week 704 – Rudolph the pcb"

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!

January 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/boost-your-new-year/

DoESMas! – DoES Bring & Share Xmas!

It’s that time of year – so we’re inviting you again to help make the DoES end-of-year party super special!

Bring (if you can!):
– ⁠any friends who love a Xmas do
– some food for the potluck table and something for you to drink
– ⁠something small you’ve made (found, borrowed) for our Santa Lucky Dip

Share (if you like!):
– your best or worst of the year
– ⁠your hopes or plans for 2025
– ⁠your best tunes for our community karaoke

Let us know when you book your free ticket if you’d like to share anything and we’ll allocate a five-minute slot. Slots will also be available on the night. As will karaoke signups.

From 4pm so you can bring your family and friends

Dress like you made it.

Do lets us know if you can make it –  https://forms.gle/BKLD4jTdXWfkppHn9

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 02 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 03 December, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening
Wednesday 04 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 05 December, 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 05 December, 7:00pm-11:00pm LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Friday 06 December, 6:00pm-10:00pm PVTV Fringe Flicks
Saturday 07 December, 11:00am-5:00pm Liverpool Synth Meet
Sunday 08 December, 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: 416 open, 1553 closed

3 new issues:

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

1 issue closed:

Thanks huffeec!

Week 703 – Xrays, Virtual Synths, Repair Cafe, Dressmaking

25th November 2024
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"Week 703 – Xrays, Virtual Synths, Repair Cafe, Dressmaking"

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!

Next Year’s MakeFest Dates

As a couple of people have asked recently (already planning their exhibits?), here’s the dates for next year’s MakeFests. Wirral is on Saturday 10th May and Liverpool is on Saturday 5th July.

January 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/boost-your-new-year/

Community Meeting Notes

We had our November Community Meeting on 23rd November – you can read the minutes here.

Things of Note

  • MCQN Ltd:JLCPCB seem to be copying the budget airline approach with random extra fees and the like; but I guess they now also send you some x-rays of your boards once they’ve come out of production.

    Here’s one of our new prototype My Bike’s Got LED boards, now en route to us 😀


    #weeknotes #ibal234 #PCB #ESP32 #manufacturing #Kicad #BikeTooter


    An x-ray of part of a printed circuit board populated with components. You can even see the components inside the metal can of the ESP32-C3 - they're in a darker zone caused by the metal shielding, but can still be made out.

  • matthewcroughan: I did not know until now how easy it could be to run virtual modular synths on #NixOS, both on a phone via Mobile NixOS and also on riscv64 devices like the allwinner d1 chip, mind blown. #weeknotes


  • DoES Liverpool:Lots of repairs happening at last Sunday’s Repair Café at DoES Liverpool!

    No Repair Café in December – the volunteers are having a much deserved day off, so the next one will be on 19th January 2025.



    Mike G fixing LEDs on a facemask while the owner looks on

    Mike R examining a gadget

    customers with a non-functioning shredder, waiting for it to be fixed

  • Adrian McEwen:Have spent most of today with a pair of oscilloscopes probing a rather sensitive formaldehyde sensor circuit trying to debug a source of noise.

    That has included my colleague Paul generating plots like this one from the HPGL output of his old CRT ‘scope, connected via an RS232 serial cable 😀


    #weeknotes



  • Jackie Pease:Experimenting with Kolam-style pattern using some salvaged plastic embroidery grid, cable ties and a very cheap COB LED strip I got from AliExpress – shame it wasn’t slightly longer!

    The LED strip is less flexible than yarn, so the curves are better.


    I’d like to try this with LED noodles.


    #WeekNotes




  • DoES Liverpool: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.
    doesliverpool.com/co-working/b
  • matthewcroughan: On my way to #zhf (zero hydra failures) in https://zurich.nix.ug, and trying to get nixos-unstable working on the little pink riscv64 Mango-Pi MQ Pro whilst at the airport.

    Surprisingly comfy to do this development on an arm platform/host, thanks to Nix. #weeknotes #riscv



  • DoES Liverpool:Nick using our Fibre Arts room to work on a commission for 3 gowns.

    Nick fitting a dress on one of our dressmakers mannequins

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 25 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 26 November, 7:30pm-9:30pmPVTV Meet-Up
Wednesday 27 November, 7:00pm-9:00pmLiverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 28 November, 7:00pm-9:30pmMaker 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.

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: 414 open, 1552 closed

1 new issue:

Featured issue: Tony not engraving well. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed

Week 702 – TEALS, Bike PCBs, Shelf Games

18th November 2024
"Week 702 – TEALS, Bike PCBs, Shelf Games"

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!

November Future Gazing / Community Meeting – Saturday

The most popular time in the Doodle Poll was Saturday 23rd November 4pm – 6pm, so we’ve booked the Event Space for then.

Please try to make it along to have your say in the way that DoES Liverpool is run and find out what you can do to help. If you can’t get there in person then get in touch and we’ll organise access via Zoom.

Things of Note

  • MCQN Ltd:Bike PCB bonanza today! Just placed the order for:
    * New prototype My Bike’s Got LED boards
    * More of the Microbit LED boards for kids workshops
    * The audio-level-shifter board for @amcewen‘s bike soundsystem#weeknotes #ibal234 #WLED #microbit #ibal249 #ibal250 #Kicad #BikeTooter
    Screen grab of the PCB manufacturer shopping cart, showing two red PCBs - one long and thin, one roughly square; a green PCB with a notch in one side; and a PCB stencil

  • Adrian McEwen:Looking forward to trying out the new My Bike’s Got LED boards. On-board charging! An ESP32-C3 so we can do sound-reactive 🎶 And @huffeec has shrunk the footprint down so it’s almost half the size of the v1 boards 😀#weeknotes
  • DoES Liverpool:A simple turbine made by Sean J at from wood and laser cut acrylic, as part of a stem outreach session, to teach kids about electricity generation.

    A black acrylic fan attached to a wooden support, with electrical leads

  • DoES Liverpool:Poppy from Shelf Games, who are based here at DoES Liverpool.
    You can find their games at shelf.itch.ioLove the Shelf logo on these dye sublimation mugs!

    Poppy, standing in the DoES Liverpool kitchen, drinking from a mug with the Shelf Games logo

    A close-up of the Shelf Games mug, featuring a black stylised outline bird, in black on a white background. The mug has a yellow handle and inside

  • Jackie Pease:I’ve been experimenting with Indian Kolams in Kuguri-Zashi Sashiko-ish style – inspired by @anu1905 alpaca.pubpub.org/pub/eljjyi80.
    I haven’t yet managed to duplicate the machine-embroidered grid but I’m working on it! Here’s a couple of 3-3 dot Kolams on a hand-stitched grid (I was surprised they aren’t all single path).
    #WeekNotes
    Red thread woven in and out of a white thread grid on silver card

    Red thread woven in and out of a white thread grid on silver card


Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 18 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 19 November, 6:15pm-8:15pmXR Liverpool
Wednesday 20 November, 7:00pm-9:00pmLiverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 21 November, 7:00pm-9:30pmMaker 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 23 November, 4:00pm – 6:00pmNovember Future Gazing / Community Meeting
Please try to make it along to have your say in the way that DoES Liverpool is run and find out what you can do to help.

If you can’t get there in person then get in touch and we’ll organise access via Zoom.
Sunday 24 November, 2:00pm-5:00pmPlastic Playgroup

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 @plastacs on social for the latest updates, and to see what we make if you can’t be here in person

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: 413 open, 1552 closed

2 new issues:

Featured issue: Dispose of paint tins. Can we move this on or close it?

3 issues closed:

Thanks amcewen, JackiePease!

Week 701 – Git Training, KiCad

11th November 2024
"Week 701 – Git Training, KiCad"

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 11 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 13 November, 7:00pm-9:00pmLiverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 14 November, 9:00am-6:00pmJelly Liverpool
Thursday 14 November, 5:00pm-7:00pmStudent Socialists
Thursday 14 November, 7:00pm-9:30pmMaker 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 17 November, 11:00am-3:00pmRepair 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: 414 open, 1549 closed

3 new issues:

Featured issue: Find a way to get github to send email notifications to the laser team. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

Thanks amcewen!

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