Weeknotes

Week 195 – Hexacopters and Villainous Badges

2nd March 2015
"Week 195 – Hexacopters and Villainous Badges"

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 March, 6:00pm-9:00pm Sewing Club
Saturday 07 March, 10:00am-3:00pm Introduction to Laser Cutting
Sunday 08 March, 12:00am-Monday 09 March, 11:59pm International Womens Day

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.

Issue counts:

Open issues: 60
Closed issues: 48

Week 194 – Pimp My Accordion

23rd February 2015
"Week 194 – Pimp My Accordion"

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

And an update via email from Graham Ogle…

  • I’ve been building a wide range signal generator from 500KHz through to 30MHz tunable in 1 Hz steps. This uses a cheap DDS (direct digital synthesis) module from ebay, an Arduino Pro Mini, a rotary encoder and an LCD. I’m currently building this into a simple direct conversion receiver for the HF frequency bands.
  • I’ve also set up a Meetup Group, Halkyn Amateur Radio and Electronics, for our radio club talks which will hopefully get new members and expand the range of interests covered. I’m giving a talk on the 25th of February, “Arduino and Picaxe microcontrollers”.

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 23 February, 6:30pm-9:00pm Maker Night
Tuesday 24 February, 6:30pm-9:00pm Geek Up – Introduction to Elm, A functional reactive programming language
Wednesday 25 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Internet of Things Meetup 11 – Javascript IoT Wrangling with Node RED

Week 193 – When Work Is This Much Fun…

16th February 2015
"Week 193 – When Work Is This Much Fun…"

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 February, 6:00pm-9:00pm Sewing Club
Tuesday 17 February, 7:00pm-8:00pm Liverpool Drones Meetup
Wednesday 18 February, 6:30pm-8:00pm Friends of the Earth

Week 192 – Visitors and Filming

9th February 2015
"Week 192 – Visitors and Filming"

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

Tuesday 10 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm JavaScript User Group
Wednesday 11 February, 6:00pm-9:00pm Maker Night
Thursday 12 February, 1:00pm-2:00pm DoES Organisers’ Meeting
Saturday 14 February, 10:00am-5:00pm Maker Day

Week 191 – 3D Printing-a-plenty

2nd February 2015
"Week 191 – 3D Printing-a-plenty"

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 February, 6:00pm-9:00pm Sewing Club
Saturday 07 February, 10:00am-4:00pm Absolute Beginners Arduino

Week 190 – Maker Faire Challenges and Girl Geek Diaries

26th January 2015
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"Week 190 – Maker Faire Challenges and Girl Geek Diaries"

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 26 January, 6:30pm-9:00pm Maker Night
Wednesday 28 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm IoT Liverpool (skipping this month)

Week 189 – New Laser Tube and Ultamation Show Production Hardware

19th January 2015
"Week 189 – New Laser Tube and Ultamation Show Production Hardware"

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 January, 6:00pm-9:00pm Sewing Club
Tuesday 20 January, 7:00pm-8:00pm Liverpool Drones Meetup
Wednesday 21 January, 6:30pm-8:00pm Friends of the Earth

Laser cut artwork produced here

16th January 2015
"Laser cut artwork produced here"

Christine Toh has provided us with a lovely write-up of the laser cut, pop art inspired work that she’s been producing recently in DoES. This goes into exhibition at the Bluecoat Display Centre (almost across the road from us) from 23rd January to 7th March 2015.

Christine Toh

Christine2toh@yahoo.co.uk

christinetoh.wordpress.com

“Fleurs d’Amour” Collection / “Flowers of Love” Collection Medium: Acrylic or acrylic and wood, paper, laser cutting and digital printing.

I am a mixed media French artist living in Liverpool and have graduated from John Moores University in Fashion and Textile Design in 2008.

The development of my work is closely linked with the exploration of new processes and materials. The use of text and the use of colours have always been a strong inspiration and key elements of my work.

I learned last year how to use a laser cutter at DOES, a fantastic non-profit community organization supporting local entrepreneurs and makers in Liverpool. This had led to the development of a new set of work: the “Fleurs d’Amour” series or “Flowers of Love” series.

Those flower pendants have been designed from the word “amour“ (love) written in a circle as a message of eternity.

The flowers have been cut mainly in acrylic but birch wood has also been used and been combined with the acrylic to create the case. The word “amour” has been engraved in the center.

The red cord has been hand twisted and the piece is presented in a square kraft gift box.

Each piece is unique and individually made with attention to details.

A vibrant and dazzling colour palate has been chosen to inspire freshness, optimism, fun and the pendants will hopefully provide pleasure to wear.

Put together the “Fleurs d’Amour” will remind you of Andy Warhol’s iconic Flower Series designed in 1965.The reference to Andy Warhol emphasizes how pop art ideas are very much part of our everyday world today.

Week 188 – Back to Work, Back to Laser-cutting

12th January 2015
"Week 188 – Back to Work, Back to Laser-cutting"

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 12 January, 7:00pm-9:30pm Liverpool Bitcoin Meetup
Tuesday 13 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm JavaScript User Group
Wednesday 14 January, 6:00pm-9:00pm Maker Night
Saturday 17 January, 10:00am-3:00pm Introduction to Laser Cutting

Week 187 – Happy New Year

5th January 2015
"Week 187 – 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

Everyone was busy enjoying the break to be weeknoting.

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 05 January, 6:00pm-9:00pm Sewing Club
Thursday 08 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm Startup Thursday: Liverpool Startup Club
Saturday 10 January, 10:00am-5:00pm Maker Day
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