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
- Adrian McEwen: Got all three of DoES Liverpool‘s (operational) 3d printers running today. #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/N4F48Dj3tk
- Ross Dalziel: Yay! We made some bitcoin wallets & discussed the history of money & rewarding honesty DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/efRmx0BmZx
- Adrian McEwen: Today, the number of active Bluetooth LE devices on my desk at DoES Liverpool has gone from 0 to 3. I have 2 more types inactive #weeknotes
- Adrian McEwen: Nice to see Ultamation Ltd.‘s FIRST PRODUCTION UNIT of their Ethernet DMX controller! DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/CSaUqRki4s
- Adrian McEwen: Now @ultamation are prototyping packaging here at DoES Liverpool #makernight #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/n5Zz5jcYnD
- DoES Liverpool: There is a nice man here from HPC, with a shiny new laser tube for Gerald. Fingers crossed he’ll be back up and running soon… #weeknotes
- Adrian McEwen: Scott Jenson & Paul Kinlan will be please to know the 1st Android app I’ve ever installed is the Physical Web /cc DoES Liverpool #weeknotes
- Adrian McEwen: On a conference call discussing the British Standard recipe for synthetic sweat. #varied #IoT #weeknotes /cc DoES Liverpool
- Adrian McEwen: We’ve had a little girl in DoES Liverpool this afternoon, #3dprinting herself a prosthetic hand! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/cylQvzmMgn
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 |
Adrian – I hadn’t realised you’d posted, so I’ve just stumbled on this while looking for info about becoming a “Friend of DoES”.
I just wanted to say: Without organisations like DoES and people like Adrian (and the gang) (and I have to admit, I’m not aware of any others in Liverpool!) we’d have had a MUCH more laborious time in developing our product. The access to tools that would wouldn’t have been able to justify purchasing ourselves, like the laser cutters or 3D printers have meant we could rapidly prototype things that would have cost hundreds or thousands to do the traditional way.
I contacted Liverpool Vision fairly early on in the hope that they would be able to put us in touch with people who could guide us through the jungle of “first time production” and, without going into the details, the whole experience was utterly futile and frustrating. Rather than understand our needs and provide support, the focus seemed to be firmly around which grants we could leech into.
The TRUE value is in these small passionate groups, like DoES, who didn’t provide money, but instead took *interest* in what we wanted to do, let us use their facilities (mostly donated by other supporters), put us in touch with other passionate people and generally showed enthusiasm for our project. They’re the ones that should be being funded if we really want Liverpool to rise up as a centre of excellence in new technology. The knock on benefits will be tangible – on this project alone, we’ve engaged with the Universities (thank you to the EE dept and Innovation Voucher scheme), component suppliers, local electronics assembly contractors, sheet metal fabricators, plastic housing manufacturers, packaging designers, graphic designers… the list goes on.
Suffice to say, without DoES, I don’t think we’d have made it.
Thanks guys.
Adrian – I hadn’t realised you’d posted, so I’ve just stumbled on this while looking for info about becoming a “Friend of DoES”.
I just wanted to say: Without organisations like DoES and people like Adrian (and the gang) (and I have to admit, I’m not aware of any others in Liverpool!) we’d have had a MUCH more laborious time in developing our product. The access to tools that would wouldn’t have been able to justify purchasing ourselves, like the laser cutters or 3D printers have meant we could rapidly prototype things that would have cost hundreds or thousands to do the traditional way.
I contacted Liverpool Vision fairly early on in the hope that they would be able to put us in touch with people who could guide us through the jungle of “first time production” and, without going into the details, the whole experience was utterly futile and frustrating. Rather than understand our needs and provide support, the focus seemed to be firmly around which grants we could leech into.
The TRUE value is in these small passionate groups, like DoES, who didn’t provide money, but instead took *interest* in what we wanted to do, let us use their facilities (mostly donated by other supporters), put us in touch with other passionate people and generally showed enthusiasm for our project. They’re the ones that should be being funded if we really want Liverpool to rise up as a centre of excellence in new technology. The knock on benefits will be tangible – on this project alone, we’ve engaged with the Universities (thank you to the EE dept and Innovation Voucher scheme), component suppliers, local electronics assembly contractors, sheet metal fabricators, plastic housing manufacturers, packaging designers, graphic designers… the list goes on.
Suffice to say, without DoES, I don’t think we’d have made it.
Thanks guys.