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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!

Wirral MakeFest

We’re taking part in Wirral MakeFest on Saturday 10th May at Birkenhead Central Library. If you’ve got things you’d like to display and/or you’d like to help with organisation, please get in touch (and there’s a GitHub issue here that you can add your details to).

Liverpool MakeFest is on Saturday 5th July, so time to start thinking about that too (GitHub issue here).

Sashiko Sip and Sew Event – Saturday 29th March

Liz is running a Sashiko Sip and Sew Event at DoES Liverpool this Saturday, described as a relaxed afternoon of stitching which makes a great Mother’s Day gift – more details here.

Trip to North West Computer Museum and Leigh Hackspace – Saturday 29th March

Also on Saturday, the DoES Epic Trip to Leigh is this Saturday 29th March. You can follow the discussion in our Google Group here. We’ve got a WhatsApp group to arrange car sharing, so please get in touch if you want to go.

Things of Note

• Alex:

• Adrian McEwen:Today at @MCQN_Ltd HQ we are mostly channeling Jay-Z for marketing copy.#weeknotes #ibal234
• Adrian McEwen:There’s something of a @DoESLiverpool takeover of the @oshwassociation Show and Tell this month – I’m going to be on talking about @MCQN_Ltd‘s My Bike’s Got LED boards and @huffeec and @Snoof will be repping their company STEAM Engineers too!Tune in at 5pm GMT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPf12toLq4#weeknotes #ibal234 #OSHW
• Snoof:Wrote a blog post about Spoonbot and associated chaos! https://www.steamengineers.co.uk/blog/spoonbot-is-go/ The biggest highlight is obviously that @huffeec is still very good at turning ideas into functioning objects 🙂#weeknotes #badgelife #spoonie #neurodivergence
• Adrian McEwen:A bit of #FreeCADFriday action: reworking the sleeve for @MCQN_Ltd‘s RGB LED bollards so we can (a) switch the 3D printing orientation so the stress lines aren’t along the printing layers and (b) it will be removable for when we want to mount the bollard on the back of a trike for another music video (or something)#weeknotes #ibal251 #CAD #3DPrinting
  

  

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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: 429 open, 1598 closed

1 new issue:

• Sewing machine Caroline not working

Featured issue: Reduce the draughts in the space. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed

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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!

Community Meeting

Jake T has posted the minutes from the March community meeting. You can find them here. The next community meeting is at 13:00 on Sunday 6th of April, with Hack the Space Day from 10:00.

Things of Note

• DoES Liverpool:Lovely article by Clare from Uncover Liverpool following her recent visits to DoES Liverpool
  https://uncoverliverpool.com/features/does-liverpool-innovation-creativity-collaboration/?fbclid=PAY2xjawI8DRpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABprXa2mSbwDFJRKBjD11JgYIBzPLSmMSm8_FVjfkz3MG4jVphfScL2Ajw3w_aem_I7VdNsJQGQcDjNoMnZuiPw
  #WeekNotes
• Chris Huffee:I’m going to be sad when I have to give this loaner printer back.@MCQN_Ltd
  #weeknotes

  

MCQN Ltd:

We had a really good #MYBikesGotLED fitting session last night at @DoESLiverpool This was all in preparation for #StealingSheep band’s performance tonight.

We’ve put a lot of effort into getting people along and make the whole event #Glo for the #GloRide.

The lights were riding out the door as fast as we could fit them.

#weeknotes #GloRide #StealingSheep #ListeningParties #GloRide #joyride #LiverpoolMusiccity

• Andy Green (the 3D printing one), emailed this photo of his artwork, “Memories of Matsushima”. After laser cutting and sanding, he tinted the birch ply with Yorkshire tea and matcha green tea, and it’s now on its way to Japan.

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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: 428 open, 1598 closed

4 new issues:

• The hinge on the toilet seat in the more accessible toilet is broken
• Tony Burn Mark on inside lens
• Buy more glue sticks
• Front panels on Gerald fell out

Featured issue: Fill in CIC34 form for 2024-2025 year. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed

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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!

April 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/spring-boost/

Trip to North West Computer Museum and Leigh Hackspace

We’re organising a DoES Epic Trip to Leigh for 29th March. You can follow the discussion in our Google Group here. There are 7 people going so far, get in touch if you want to join us.

Things of Note

• We had another very successful morning testing this week over at

  @STFC_Matters

  @STFC_B2B

  This phase was to move over to a battery back mobile 5G gateway to test wearable tags around the campus for our

  @esa supported #INST project. #weeknotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIAO_HWc-UQ
• Alex: Experimenting. This, my dears, is what happens to you when you drink beer #weeknotes
  

• Adrian McEwen:Today’s task: find out if you can plait LED noodles with old gear/brake cables.First off, I need to dismantle the last quick LED noodle experiment, my quick-and-dirty rear bike arrow.#weeknotes #LED
  

  

• Adrian McEwen:So, it seems that you can plait noodles and brake cables 😀Shortens the length of the LED quite a bit, and gives it an interesting wavy pattern. A little tricky to get a tight weave on the plait given the difference in strength/flexibility of the brake cable versus the noodle.#weeknotes #LED #plait #BikeTooter
  

  

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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: 424 open, 1598 closed

No new issues

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

3 issues closed:

• Get another remote for Simon’s projector (in the Event Space)
• Drill press chuck jaws are stuck open
• Buy a replacement ink collection unit for the sublimation printer Ricoh 3110DN

Thanks JackiePease, huffeec, pyrosyndicate!

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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!

Trip to North West Computer Museum and Leigh Hackspace

We’re organising a DoES Epic Trip to Leigh for 26th March. You can follow the discussion in our Google Group here. There are 7 people going so far, get in touch if you want to join us.

Things of Note

Assim of Zanders Group (one of our permanent desk members) making good use of the sublimation printer in our workshop and supporting local charities with merchandise and print-on-demand services

Coming Up in the Next Week

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: 426 open, 1596 closed

8 new issues:

• Add index pages for the financial reports and community meeting minutes
• Get more flyers and business cards
• Get another remote for Simon’s projector (in the Event Space)
• Eddie the 3D printer seems to be under-extruding
• Commission Singer 201k heavy duty sewing machine “Miss Polly”
• Soldering iron microswitch has failed
• Gerald moving incorrectly and stopping after cuts
• Tony cutting incorrectly

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

9 issues closed:

• Add index pages for the financial reports and community meeting minutes
• Eddie the 3D printer seems to be under-extruding
• Soldering iron microswitch has failed
• Leila’s Computer
• Create PrinterMaintenanceTeam
• Sterile eyewash by the laser cutter room is out to date
• Lightburn Updates on both Computers
• The lock on the more accessible toilet door is hard to turn
• Band saw needs new blade

Thanks amcewen, JackiePease, magman2112!

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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!

Hack the Space Day/Community Meeting

It’s our monthly Hack the Space Day and Community Meeting this Sunday. Hack the Space Day from 10am, Community Meeting from 1pm. Please come along to either or both, have your say in how DoES Liverpool is run, and make it a better place.

Things of Note

• Alex @embedded_iot Making good progress with the tech. stack for our SafeAR mixed reality project… Off to demo for the good people at

  @SciTecDaresbury

  @DaresburyLab

  @STFC_Matters 

  today. Wish us luck! Mixed Reality just got real! hashtag #weeknotes

• DoES Liverpool:Testing the spaghetti cutting abilities of Sheila (our smallest laser cutter) at our regular Thursday evening #MakerNight
  #WeekNotes

  

  

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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: 427 open, 1587 closed

1 new issue:

• Octopi not working for 3D printer Marcus

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

1 issue closed:

• Fill in CIC34 form for 2023-2024 year

Thanks johnmckerrell!

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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: The dehyrdrating is coming along nicely #weeknotes

• MCQN Ltd:In lieu of writing our own #weeknotes we’re going to share this write-up from STEAM Engineers (@huffeec and @Snoof) on the surface-mount soldering workshop that we ran together at @DoESLiverpool t’other week.

steamengineers.co.uk/blog/reflow-soldering-workshop/

#electronics #soldering

• Adrian McEwen:Nice surprise in the post today: my membership welcome letter from @oshwassociation 🤩Complete with a bunch of stickers. Also shown here are two of @MCQN_Ltd‘s OSHWA certified boards that were readily to hand#electronics #OSHW #OpenHardware #OpenSource #weeknotes
  

  

• Adrian McEwen:For #FreeCADFriday I’ve been doing a tiny bit of experimenting with the RNIB’s braille font in FreeCAD to see how easy it would be to create the sort of “cards” that Dr Alex Ball has been making for his visually-impaired @museuminabox Initial experiments look promising.#Braille #weeknotes #GLAM #CAD
  

  

• DoES Liverpool:Amazing cotton reel birthday cake made by Nic for her mum’s birthday. Buttons and needle laser cut at DoES Liverpool
  #WeekNotes

  

  

• DoES Liverpool:Mylo the dog and Jake visiting the space on Saturday
  #WeekNotes

  

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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: 427 open, 1586 closed

4 new issues:

• Power sockets on bank of desks in Room 29 not working
• Leila’s Computer
• Create 2 new A4 portrait notices for DoES Liverpool for the downstairs Tapestry noticeboard
• Rationalise the power supplies leading to e.g. Russ’s desk, Phaser printer etc.

Featured issue: Hall sensor not working on homing. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

• Create 2 new A4 portrait notices for DoES Liverpool for the downstairs Tapestry noticeboard
• Replace bobbin case on Fred embroidery machine

Thanks JackiePease!

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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

• @embedded_iot  We have a family member with macular degeneration and the @RNIB have been hugely helpful. We heard of @Synapptic1 and I am really impressed with their application for those with sight loss. Been installing here and works well!
  #weeknotes

  https://x.com/embedded_iot/status/1888361483186082113

• Museum in a Box:It’s always fun when people come and show us what they do with their Boxes.Yesterday Dr Alex Ball from the Natural History Museum visited and brought his collection of pollens, insects, sand and sugar 3D prints.He uses them with him Museum in a Box to explain microscopy and scale. 5 pence coins for scale 🤣#GLAM #museum #weeknotes #microscopy #VisuallyImpaired #3Dprinting
  

  

• DoES Liverpool:Detail from Mike G’s WIP VLR (very large rug) which he brought in today. “Getting close to 300,000 knots out of 500,000. Not much further to go, honest”.
  #WeekNotes

  

• DoES Liverpool:Some #MakerDay photos from Vicki: surface mount soldering with @Snoof and @huffeec and some swirly batik experiments
  #WeekNotes

  

  

  

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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: 425 open, 1584 closed

7 new issues:

• Create PrinterMaintenanceTeam
• Spring Cleaning – 10-15 Enterprise Rack-mount Servers
• Jennie needs a copy of the fire escape door key
• Investigate why the kitchen bin keeps opening itself
• Attach key safe outside the fire escape
• Clear the large pieces of waste material in the laser cutter room
• Hope University Creative Connect 25 Wednesday 19th March 2025 12:00 – 18:00

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

2 issues closed:

• Jennie needs a copy of the fire escape door key
• Look into replacing the brown desks used for the pen plotter and resin printers

Thanks huffeec, JackiePease!

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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

• MCQN Ltd:We had a great turn out tonight for our hands-on soldering workshop at https://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

  

  

  

  

• 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#weeknotes #badgelife

• DoES Liverpool:Setting up for today’s synth meetup (Saturday 1st February 11:00 – 17:00). Everyone welcome!
  #WeekNotes

• 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.”
  #WeekNotes

  

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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:

• Sterile eyewash by the laser cutter room is out to date
• Lightburn Updates on both Computers
• Follow up the solder workshop with monthly soldering related meetups
• Tony (laser-cutter) alarm lock
• Github Member
• Motorbike Parking
• Pen plotter McGraw not plotting correctly
• Make signage for the fire door lock

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

8 issues closed:

• Github Member
• Write an article clarifying what to expect from Does and vice versa
• Phaser 7100N Colour printer not working
• Intermittent Internet access issues
• Queen Victoria’s paper roll has run out
• Write some tweets/FB posts/etc. the Fabric District can send out to tell people what we offer
• Make Dinky a nice space for meetings
• Find a way to get github to send email notifications to the laser team

Thanks pyrosyndicate, Robotorium, amcewen, JackiePease, johnmckerrell!

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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!

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
  #WeekNotes

  

• 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: https://doesliverpool.com/services/host-your-own-events/
  

  

  

  

  

• 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

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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:

• Taking rubbish to the tip #hackthespace
• Apply for Hardship Relief for business rates
• Fill in CIC34 form for 2024-2025 year
• Fill in CIC34 form for 2023-2024 year
• Sheila/ Sophia was only printing from back right hand corner

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

2 issues closed:

• Fill in CIC34 form for 2022-2023 year
• Create a device that makes it really easy to live stream events

Thanks johnmckerrell, ajlennon!