Weeknotes

Week 611 – Latest Boost Membership, Sewing, Beer

20th February 2023
"Week 611 – Latest Boost Membership, Sewing, Beer"

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!

Boost Membership

It’s that time again! Find out more about our free 6 month Boost membership and apply here.

Twitter

At the moment Weeknotes is mainly compiled from Tweets posted by members of the community, using an automated program that searches for the hashtag #weeknotes on accounts we follow.  It’s still working at the moment, but no guarantees.

DoES Liverpool has now got a Mastodon account (as mentioned below, you can follow us at does.social/@DoESLiverpool or @DoESLiverpool@does.social), and we’re aiming to collect your weeknotes from there as soon as possible (there’s an open Git issue here).

For the time being, it would be great if you could post your weeknotes to both – if you don’t have a Mastodon account it might be a good time to set one up (ask if you don’t know how – there’s a DoES Liverpool instance that people in the community are welcome to join if you want). And please don’t stop posting weeknotes!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 20 February, 9:00am-5:30pm Fearless Academy
Monday 20 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Thursday 23 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 25 February, 12:00am-Sunday 26 February, 12:00am Merseyside Cycling Campaign AGM
Sunday 26 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 @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: 373 open, 1398 closed

4 new issues:

Featured issue: The laser cut knob on Sheila’s vertical adjustment mechanism is broken. Can we move this on or close it?

7 issues closed:

Thanks JackiePease, huffeec!

Week 610 – Decaf for the Afternoon

13th February 2023
"Week 610 – Decaf for the Afternoon"

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!

Twitter

At the moment Weeknotes is mainly compiled from Tweets posted by members of the community, using an automated program that searches for the hashtag #weeknotes on accounts we follow.  It’s still working at the moment, but no guarantees.

DoES Liverpool has now got a Mastodon account (as mentioned below, you can follow us at does.social/@DoESLiverpool or @DoESLiverpool@does.social), and we’re aiming to collect your weeknotes from there as soon as possible (there’s an open Git issue here).

For the time being, it would be great if you could post your weeknotes to both – if you don’t have a Mastodon account it might be a good time to set one up (ask if you don’t know how – there’s a DoES Liverpool instance that people in the community are welcome to join if you want). And please don’t stop posting weeknotes!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 13 February, 9:00am-5:30pm Fearless Academy
Monday 13 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Thursday 16 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 16 February, 8:00pm-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.
🥁🎺 🎷🎻
Saturday 18 February, 11:00am-5:00pm Liverpool Synth Meet – get your free ticket here
Sunday 19 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: 376 open, 1391 closed

4 new issues:

Featured issue: Tony apparently not cutting square. Can we move this on or close it?

3 issues closed:

Thanks magman2112, Justcantstopmakingstuff!

Week 609 – CNC carving, Mastodon, FOSDEM

6th February 2023
"Week 609 – CNC carving, Mastodon, FOSDEM"

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!

Twitter

At the moment Weeknotes is mainly compiled from Tweets posted by members of the community, using an automated program that searches for the hashtag #weeknotes on accounts we follow.  Recently Twitter have suggested that they might remove free API access on 9 February. Although they’ve apparently backtracked on that for the time being, it seems a good idea not to rely on them too much …

DoES Liverpool has now got a Mastodon account (as mentioned below, you can follow us at does.social/@DoESLiverpool or @DoESLiverpool@does.social), and we’re aiming to collect your weeknotes from there as soon as possible (there’s an open Git issue here).

For the time being, it would be great if you could post your weeknotes to both – if you don’t have a Mastodon account it might be a good time to set one up (ask if you don’t know how – there’s a DoES Liverpool instance that people in the community are welcome to join if you want). And please don’t stop posting weeknotes!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 06 February, 9:00am-5:30pm Fearless Academy
Monday 06 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 07 February, 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 09 February, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 09 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 11 February, 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 used.
Sunday 12 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 @plasctacs 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“>Plastic Playgroup (DoES 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: 375 open, 1388 closed

2 new issues:

Featured issue: Write down induction requirements for equipment being promoted to Class Red (i.e. powered and machine tools for wood and metal working). Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed

Week 608 – Smokin’ Dogs

30th January 2023
"Week 608 – Smokin’ Dogs"

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 30 January, 9:00am-5:30pm Fearless Academy
Monday 30 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 01 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 02 February, 7:00pm-11:00pm LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Thursday 02 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.

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: 373 open, 1388 closed

4 new issues:

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

No issues closed

Week 607 – CNC Fibre Arts, Repair, Recycling

23rd January 2023
"Week 607 – CNC Fibre Arts, Repair, Recycling"

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 23 January, 9:00am-5:30pm Fearless Academy
Monday 23 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 25 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Etsy Meet Up
Thursday 26 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.

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, 1388 closed

2 new issues:

Featured issue: Door handle of Room 29 is wobbly. Can we move this on or close it?

4 issues closed:

Thanks johnmckerrell, magman2112, amcewen!

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!

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