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Week 606 – Green Woman

16th January 2023
"Week 606 – Green Woman"

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 16 January, 9:00am-5:30pm Fearless Academy
Monday 16 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 17 January, 6:15pm-7:45pm XR Liverpool
Thursday 19 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.
Thursday 19 January, 7:30pm-9:30pm Maker Music Night cancelled as AJ not available
Sunday 22 January, 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 @plasctacs 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: 371 open, 1384 closed

5 new issues:

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

5 issues closed:

Thanks JackiePease, huffeec!

Week 605 – OpenHaystack

9th January 2023
"Week 605 – OpenHaystack"

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 09 January, 9:00am-5:30pm Fearless Academy
Monday 09 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 10 January, 9:00am-5:30pm Fearless Academy
Thursday 12 January, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 12 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 14 January, 10:00am-5:00pm 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 use
Sunday 15 January, 11:00am-3:00pm Repair Café – find out more and get your free ticket 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: 371 open, 1379 closed

1 new issue:

Featured issue: We don’t know what signs we need up in the space. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed

Week 604 – T-Call MQTT, Project Idea

2nd January 2023
"Week 604 – T-Call MQTT, Project Idea"

Happy New Year!

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 02 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 03 January, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening 

We have a regular evening where we look at improving some of the software that DoES runs on. You can join us online at https://ca.meet.coop/b/adr-ctr-trg
Take a look here to see what we’ve got in mind:
https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/issues/670
https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/optimism
Wednesday 04 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 05 January, 7:00pm-11:00pm LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Thursday 05 January, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night 

Our free regular 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 08 January, 2:00pm-5:00pm

Plastic 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 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: 370 open, 1379 closed

No new issues

Featured issue: Improve health and safety in the space. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed

Week 603 – Laser Cut Yoto Stand, Berry Scripting, Poetry

27th December 2022
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"Week 603 – Laser Cut Yoto Stand, Berry Scripting, Poetry"

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

Just a reminder that, as usual, DoES Liverpool is not officially open between Christmas and the New Year. If you’ve got a tag then you’ll be able to come and go as usual throughout the holiday period, but if not then please get in touch if you want to come in, and we can let you know if there’ll be anyone around.

We also have a planned network outage on the morning of Friday 30th December – see Google Group post for more details.

We’ll be back to normal office hours from 2 January.

Introducing our January Start Boost Members

We announced our new Boost members at our DoES DoES Xmas event; it’s taken a while to get all the photos etc. together, but here’s a short post introducing Susan and Tash.

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Thursday 29 December, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular evening meetup 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: 370 open, 1379 closed

2 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 602 – Wearables, Wreaths, Diving Safari

19th December 2022
"Week 602 – Wearables, Wreaths, Diving Safari"

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 19 December, 9:00am-5:30pm Fearless Academy
Monday 19 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Thursday 22 December, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular evening meetup 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: 369 open, 1378 closed

2 new issues:

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

2 issues closed:

Thanks Robotorium, JackiePease!

Week 601 – Xmas #cheerlights, Wedding Dress, Dive Computer Repair

12th December 2022
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"Week 601 – Xmas #cheerlights, Wedding Dress, Dive Computer Repair"

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!

DoES DoES Christmas!

DoES DoES Christmas, organised by Kirsty, is this Wednesday, 14th December, at the Fashion Hub, just downstairs from DoES Liverpool. Expect a quiz, standup, live music, Karaoke and more, plus chip butties from Guac’n’Roll. You can still get your ticket via Eventbrite, or tell Kirsty or Jackie that you’re coming (you can just turn up on the night too, but you might miss out on the chips …).

All members of the DoES community and friends welcome!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

 

Monday 12 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 14 December, 6:30pm-10:00pm

DoES DoES Christmas!

DoES DoES Christmas, organised by Kirsty, is this Wednesday, 14th December, at the Fashion Hub, just downstairs from DoES Liverpool. Expect a quiz, standup, live music, Karaoke and more, plus chip butties from Guac’n’Roll. You can still get your ticket via Eventbrite, or tell Kirsty or Jackie that you’re coming (you can just turn up on the night too, but you might miss out on the chips …).

All members of the DoES community and friends welcome!
Thursday 15 December, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular evening meetup 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: 369 open, 1376 closed

3 new issues:

Featured issue: Install the hatch between the kitchen and event room. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

Thanks huffeec, amcewen!

Week 600 – Fabrication (Circle Skirts and PCBs)

5th December 2022
"Week 600 – Fabrication (Circle Skirts and PCBs)"

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

Not long to apply for our January Start Boost Membership. Read John’s blog post about it, and if you want to apply for 6 months free desk or workshop membership starting on 1st January 2023, the form is here. Applications will close at 11:59pm on 11th December 2022, and the successful applicants will be announced at our Christmas Party on 14th December 2022.

Please share with any people and organisations that you think might benefit.

DoES DoES Christmas!

Following the success of her DoES DoES Standup event, Kirsty, one of our previous Boost members, is organising our Christmas Party! It will be in the Fashion Hub, downstairs from DoES Liverpool, on Wednesday 14th December. You can find out more from her Google Group post and get your ticket via Eventbrite. All members of the DoES community and friends welcome!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 05 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 06 December, 6:00pm-8:00pm Liverpool Godot Engine Meetup
Tuesday 06 December, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening

We have a regular evening where we look at improving some of the software that DoES runs on. You can join us online at https://ca.meet.coop/b/adr-ctr-trg
Take a look here to see what we’ve got in mind:
https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/issues/670
https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/optimism
Thursday 08 December, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 08 December, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular evening meetup 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 10 December, 10:00am-5:00pm Maker Day

Our free regular monthly daytime meetup 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 11 December, 2:00pm-5:00pm

Plastic 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 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: 367 open, 1375 closed

2 new issues:

Featured issue: Make it easier for users to find out about status of the laser-cutters. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

Thanks johnmckerrell!

Week 599 – Fibre Arts

28th November 2022
"Week 599 – Fibre Arts"

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

It’s a year since we started our DoES Liverpool Boost membership scheme. Read John’s blog post about it, and if you want to apply for 6 months free desk or workshop membership starting on 1st January 2023, the form is here. Applications will close at 11:59pm on 11th December 2022, and the successful applicants will be announced at our Christmas Party on 14th December 2022.

Please share with any people and organisations that you think might benefit.

DoES DoES Christmas!

Following the success of her DoES DoES Standup event, Kirsty, one of our previous Boost members, is organising our Christmas Party! It will be in the Fashion Hub, downstairs from DoES Liverpool, on Wednesday 14th December. You can find out more from her Google Group post and get your ticket via Eventbrite. All members of the DoES community and friends welcome!

Things of Note

 

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 28 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 30 November, 6:30pm-8:00pm Liverpool Copwatch/BizzieWatch
Thursday 01 December, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular evening meetup 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 03 December, 11:00am-5:00pm Liverpool Synth Meet – Get your free ticket 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: 366 open, 1374 closed

4 new issues:

Featured issue: How can we help each other during Covid-19. Can we move this on or close it?

6 issues closed:

Thanks magman2112, johnmckerrell!

Week 598 – New Boost Membership Round and Xmas Party Annoucements!

21st November 2022
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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!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 21 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Thursday 24 November, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker NightOur free regular evening meetup 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 27 November, 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: 367 open, 1369 closed

No new issues

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

4 issues closed:

Thanks magman2112!

Week 597 – The #Regeneration / #Innovation Cycle

15th November 2022
"Week 597 – The #Regeneration / #Innovation Cycle"

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 14 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Monday 14 November, 8:00pm-9:00pm Expansion/Move Meeting
Thursday 17 November, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular evening meetup 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 17 November, 7:30pm-9:30pm

Maker Music Night

Got a guitar that’s gathering dust? Want to play drums but worried about disturbing people at home? Interested in meeting with people wanting to play music?
🎸🎤

At @doesliverpool on Kempston St* a few of us have connected through music at the Thursday maker night and we want to open it up for others to join in.
🎼 🎶

Meetings will take place on the first and third Thursday of each month .
You are encouraged to bring an instrument along, but there will be opportunities to borrow and share. Message @quirky_aj on Instagram if you have any questions about the evening.
🥁🎺 🎷🎻
Sunday 20 November, 11:00am-3:00pm Repair Café – get your free ticket 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: 371 open, 1365 closed

1 new issue:

Featured issue: Make it easier for users to find out about status of the laser-cutters. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

Thanks huffeec, goatchurchprime!

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