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
- Guy Fraser: First chunk of my “laptop” which should let me get more done at #MakerNight DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/bfl9ZVA08a
- Adrian McEwen: Off to ChesterDevs to talk #hardware #makerspaces #IoT & DoES Liverpool. With an Ackers Bell and Museum in a Box to show off too #weeknotes
- Guy Fraser: Thursday night is #makernight at DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/lAIBb3wSgf
- Guy Fraser: Some Pycom #LoPy experimentations with Julian Todd today at DoES Liverpool #MakerNight #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/Vj92SZUgmo
- Def-Proc: Adding a second processor core seems to have livened up my GitLab install. For twice the VPS cost each month #weeknotes
- dynamicdevices: #Microbits communicating via radio (BLE) using the FireFly demo code. What fun! #weeknotes youtube.com/watch?v=gj1hp0…
- Guy Fraser: Spent few hours updating wiki pages for machines in workshop github.com/DoESLiverpool/… DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/RQUBoOHkhq
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 08 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Wearables Group |
| Wednesday 10 May, 6:00pm-8:00pm | Scouse FP |
| Thursday 11 May, 6:30pm-9:00pm | Maker Night |
| Saturday 13 May, 10:00am-5:00pm | Maker 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: 168 open, 328 closed
10 new issues:
- Suggestion: Merge wiki and somewhere-safe in to somebody-should
- Support RFID implants on the DoorBots
- buy some more paper towels
- Deep clean or replace Sophia’s lens after checking
- Website doesn’t appear to have comments enabled
- get a card machine for DoES
- status.doesliverpool.com needs updating
- Sophia is cutting with little power
- Catalogue Machines
- Document current usage of labels for somebody-should issues
12 issues closed:
- Support RFID implants on the DoorBots
- Website doesn’t appear to have comments enabled
- Sophia is cutting with little power
- Suggestion: Better labels for git issue priority
- change the batteries in the kitchen bin
- Liverpool sewing club should list their sewing equipment
- Getting a lot of things done
- Shelf in kitchen fridge
- Remove the backlash from the carriage on the small CNC mill
- Small CNC mill end stops need setting up
- Should we create pre-loaded RFID fobs?
- Install OpenWRT on the router in Dinky
Thanks ajlennon, DefProc, stevesparrow, aubergine10, amcewen!
Community Content
DoES exists to support the community that uses DoES. If you use DoES, then you are part of that community. If you would like to publicise something related to DoES, you can email hello@doesliverpool.com with the formatted content for us to use as a new blog post. Tell us what you’re up to, and we’ll show the world what epic stuff happens at DoES!