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
- (Ed: Remember Michael who came up from Cambridge to use our CNC router? – this is some of the stuff he’s doing at the moment in Cambridge): Electric Flapjack: It’s #weeknotes time: helping a friend make a lot of very small holes in some wood, and living the rapid prototyping dreams electricflapjack.com/blog/2018/10/1…
- DoES Liverpool: All the talks from last Friday’s #makingitconf at DoES Liverpool. Well woth watching – thanks Alexes! twitter.com/iotwatch/statu… #weeknotes
- Alex Lennon: The first @MakeSpaceLive event recording is now available online as a YouTube playlist on the DoES Liverpool channel! We’re learning as we go but for a first effort I think it’s worked out pretty well! #CactusCam is the way forward! #weeknotes twitter.com/iotwatch/statu…
- Crowdyke: Today DoES Liverpool got me up and running with this cutter in no time. Thank you Tom and Emma. DoES Liverpool rocks. #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/2Qm8Wu3tYI
- Ross Dalziel: Anyone following the adventures of DoES Liverpool in #wearables & #BioMaterials might be interested in the opencall for Artists to join an art & neuroscience residential for the #SynaNET project #weeknotes LU Health & Medicine bit.ly/DECSynaNet
- Zarino Zappia: My first 3D print at DoES Liverpool – a prototype cable tidy, for the workshop. Too big! Smaller version already on the go. Thanks Adrian McEwen for showing me the ropes! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/KOe29uAhvl
- Ross Dalziel: Wow! Awesome The Economist covered Festival of Maintenance ! love how meetings with post-its on the windows in DoES Liverpool grow into exciting not-business-as-usual projects that have national import. #weeknotes twitter.com/marc_in_london…
- Alex Lennon: How amazing is this Dan Lynch Matthew Croughan Caroline Keep ? HEX was showing us his new velvet etching process and we tried Martí’s new design for makespacelive. Love it! #weeknotes twitter.com/DoESLiverpool/…
- DoES Liverpool: Anthony with Anthony logo in laser cut velvet #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/KbJY9ehYj8
- Jackie Pease: Christmas bauble prototypes in laser cut MDF / acrylic / metallic thread for potential @doesliverpool event #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/bRY2Dm7TOF
- Alex Lennon: Graeme put a great video together of our #SDNW trip out to Puffin Island to dive with seals. Lovely job! #scubadiving #weeknotesvimeo.com/296292171
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 22 October, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Wearables Group |
| Wednesday 24 October, 6:00pm-8:00pm | Ladies that UX |
| Thursday 25 October, 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: 303 open, 650 closed
10 new issues:
- Plan a Christmas decoration making workshop at DoES
- Gerald needs his filters cleaning
- Install protector on wall below hand driers.
- Work out and set up an induction process for the CNC router
- Doorbots should generate an MQTT message for each one
- Set up doorbot system on the roller shutter at the back for cyclists
- Create a FreeNAS cloud storage solution that is open to the internet.
- Small leak from the boss connecting the sink waste to the downpipe
- Fuse for Dinky electrics was turned off
- Rear fire escape shutter is dysfunctional, does not close.
Featured issue: Build a rack to store vinyl. Can we move this on or close it?
11 issues closed:
- Fuse for Dinky electrics was turned off
- Rear fire escape shutter is dysfunctional, does not close.
- Fridge wasn’t closing as two milk containers in the door
- Gerald out of alignment
- Update 2D printers page on the wiki
- Set up doorbots on the doors at the Tapestry
- Get door hardware for the internal doors
- Prepare and provide carpet emergency boxes
- One of the internal fans in Sophia isn’t operating
- Report any instances of Sophia slipping
- Deep clean or replace Sophia’s lens after checking
Thanks johnmckerrell, amcewen, magman2112, goatchurchprime, zarino!
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!