weeknotes

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
"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!

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!

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