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
- DoES Liverpool: Great idea. Who uses DoES Liverpool workshop to maintain existing stuff as well as making new? #weeknotes twitter.com/_ECorbin/statu…
- Alex Lennon: Another day begins. Diving at Elphinstone reef with the sharks today #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/qkAKeyppdB
- Def-Proc: Today I made a client *unreasonably* happy… with a spreadsheet based tool! ? #justWhatTheyNeeded ? #happyClient #weeknotes
- Alex Lennon: Bella passed her junior open water scuba diver course. I’ve got a new diving buddy! #weeknotes #scubadiving pic.twitter.com/ICe4CaPe7Z
- David Frazer: #weeknotes #hackaday
Wind powered music box original design by Niklas Roy @ DoES Liverpool instagram.com/p/BcsezzeAAYh/ - chris huffee: Working on #inventadvent at DoES Liverpool makernight by decapitating a snowman.. #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/MGW095upM2
- Alex Lennon: Boy meets shark #scubadiving #weeknotes pictures courtesy of Axel pic.twitter.com/7813TziXGe
- Alex Lennon: Merry Christmas everybody from Egypt #scubadiving #santa #weeknotes Redseadivingsafari pic.twitter.com/a0O87neSua
- David Frazer: Good job we wiped some of the dust off the laser cutter. #weeknotes @ DoES Liverpool instagram.com/p/BcxCmSsAMQc/
- Adrian McEwen: #cheerlights #weeknotes magenta
- Alex Lennon: Watching the sun kiss her way free of Neptune’s lair, as I head to my last two dives for this holiday #scubadiving #weeknotes #marsashagra pic.twitter.com/QN3U6o65LF
- Michael Dales: Time for #weeknotes: a little explanation of guitar pickups and some learnings I had about complex designs in Fusion 360:electricflapjack.com/blog/2017/12/1…
- DoES Liverpool: Photos by Ste Whitfield of some #kitronik #ziphalo #microbit baubles from our Xmas party last night instagram.com/p/BcxVh86DJfH/ #weeknotes
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Tuesday 19 December, 1:00pm-2:00pm | Mince Pie Tasting |
| Wednesday 20 December, 6:30pm-8:00pm | Friends of the Earth |
| Thursday 21 December, 6:30pm-9:00pm | Maker Night |
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: 173 open, 453 closed
11 new issues:
- Arrange a Community Visit to the Tapestry in Early January
- Investigate other Makerspaces that might want to visit us, or have us visit them
- Think About New Big Projects for Future Maker Events
- Apply for Newcastle Maker Faire
- Investigate Viability of Continuing Make Shift Do Under DoES Umbrella
- Find and move all DoES resources (eg signs) from dropbox to a better place
- Create a glue and solvents section on the wiki and in a shelf
- Make a series of laser cut power test swatches for each of our sample materials
- Design and sew a nice big DoES flag
- Add details of the sewing machine(s) to the wiki
- Create a general-purpose hackable DoESLiverpool MQTT server
Featured issue: Perform an audit of the small tools, etc in the Workshop.
34 issues closed:
- Make a series of laser cut power test swatches for each of our sample materials
- Cable holder and air assist tube on Gerald need replacing, is stiff/fire damaged
- OfficeJet-7510 needs new ink cartridges
- Install whistles on the leftover pigeons in the new hack space
- Make the Acker’s Bell ding when tracked deliveries arrive
- Suggestion: Merge wiki and somewhere-safe in to somebody-should
- get a card machine for DoES
- We should highlight the food sharing area
- Move relevant Tosca issues across
- Fasten in the speaker on doorbot2 properly
- Complete update of the things going on page
- Investigate wifi versus wired throughput
- Commission the hot-air gun
- Arduino Robot and code
- buy a small 19″ rack for the main room
- Clean up the machine tool cupboard
- Investigate discourse
- Move private stuff to gitlabs
- Need to order some new PTFE couplings for the Ultimakers
- Post drinking status to #drinking
- Build a system to email a reminder to the directors two days before a directors meeting
- DoESLiverpool github pages to host javascript laser cutter generating patterns
- doorbot3 kindle integration has died
- Get a copy of “The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing” for bookshelf
- Create a 3d Printer Booking System
- Look at ways to communicate better to people about DoES.
- The black webcam for the workshop door needs its power supply fixing
- Put Kindle into Dinky door
- Doorbot screen should not show duplicate events
- We should Internet-of-Things-ify the business address pigeonholes
- Signage for permanent desks
- The vinyl-cutter needs a roll spool holder
- Box up Raspberry Pi on the door
- Build a window vent and laser extraction tubing
Thanks amcewen, huffeec, goatchurchprime, DoESsean, johnmckerrell!
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!