Weeknotes

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!

Introducing our January 2025 Start Boost Members – Jordan and Jake

17th December 2024
"Introducing our January 2025 Start Boost Members – Jordan and Jake"

A warm welcome to our January 2025 start Boost members – Jordan and Jake!

Desk Membership Winner – Jordan Hau

Workshop Membership Winner – Jake Thorne

Jake says “I’ll keep a diary of my activities and host it on a website (I’m afraid I don’t have social media.)

I’m looking forward to finally puzzling out Kath, the Passap Duomatic, and making my first hat (I have my double-eyed bodkins at the ready.) I’ll produce a ‘first steps’ zine for machine knitting with her (that I’d planned to make before I had to pause my membership) and generally try to make things easier for people that want to use the machine and her Brother sibling.

I’ll use the time to investigate some of the tools in the space that I haven’t used before, especially the pen plotter for exploring algorithmic patterns and image processing.

I hope to also put together a simple Z80 homebrew computer. Adrian pointed out to me that there are some Z80 processors tucked away that should be fun to use. I hope to find a way for this to contribute to the textiles room, or else to my misadventures.

I’m very keen to start a “pattern club” or similar at DoES, so there’s that to look forward to, as well!”

Boost Membership

We hold a new Boost membership round every three months. Find out more here, and if you’re interested in applying, then keep an eye on our social media for details of the next round!

 

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!

DoESMas! – DoES Bring & Share Xmas!

26th November 2024
"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.

On the 20th December, 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

DoES XMAS Party 2024

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