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Week 396 – Seeing What Isn’t Normally Visible

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...

Week 395 – Alex’s Christmas Week Projects

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...

Week 393 – LoRa Stock Control

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...

DoES Liverpool are hosting a foodbank drive this Christmas

DoES Liverpool are hosting a foodbank drive this Christmas

Over the next 10 days, DoES Liverpool will be hosting a foodbank drive to get some collections together in time for Christmas for people in Liverpool who will be struggling to make ends meet. According to Trussell Trust statistics, demand in December is consistently...

Week 392 – Can Those Synths Play Christmas Tunes?

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...

Week 391 – Cooking with cork and chocolate

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...

Week 390 – New carpet for Room 29!

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...

Week 389 – Instrumenting the space

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...

Civil Society and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Last week I spent a day at FACT, attending the #LabOfLabs symposium that they'd convened with Leeds University's Cultural Institute. We explored what cultural labs are, what they could be, and how we might better connect them (and those of us involved with...

Week 387 – Crumble and Curry

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...

Visit to Vila Nova de Famalicão in Portugal

I’ve just got back from a short trip to the “Textile City” of Vila Nova de Famalicão in Portugal – as it might be of interest to other members of the DoES Liverpool community, I’ve written this short blog about the visit. If there’s anything you want to know more...

Week 386 – Factories and Freebies

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...

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

What a difference a year makes. When I wrote last year about DoES Liverpool's finances we were celebrating six years in business, we had ten thousand pounds in our bank account and were expecting to make a profit for the year. We were also in something of a precarious...

Festival of Maintenance slides: Culture and Tools

Recently I gave a talk at the inaugural Festival of Maintenance. It was a day-long celebration of all things fixing and maintaining, organised in part by DoES Liverpool community members Jackie Pease and Ross Dalziel. It took place down in London, but thanks to help...

Week 383 – Embedded Bonanza

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...

Week 382 – Stretching People’s Sensor Skills

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...

Community Maker Events

Maker Events are regular meetings organised by DoES Liverpool to provide a space for people to learn, experiment and work on projects related to Physical computing, Laser cutting, Arduino, Electronics, 3D printing…