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: Lovely video of the #WhatDoesHealthLookLike workshop that laura pullig (& more of the community) and Dr David A. Ellis ran here the other month as part of the GetAMoveOn to build #WearableTech #sensors and turn some #dataviz into t-shirts and mugs youtube.com/watch?v=hudWfD… #weeknotes
- Adrian McEwen: Today’s unexpected learning in DoES Liverpool: a lesson on why the Spitfire wing is the shape it is (and how that’s so efficient), courtesy of Julian Todd‘s time deep in complex mathematical equations #weeknotes
- Ross Dalziel: Hey DoES Liverpool to avoid clashing with #igniteliv Jackie Pease and I will be having our #Wearables evening tonight from 7pm-9pm please RT! & for BioMaterials hopefully revisiting blending recycled corks & thinking about how valuable plastic could be #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/GTPnHXCIb2
- Ross Dalziel: Just recycled some corks from R&H Fine Wines with Jackie Pease . Used a borrowed Blendtec from Mike G & revised Materiom recipe for our cork plant pots & cork sheet for lasering DoES Liverpool #weeknotes github.com/DoESLiverpool/… pic.twitter.com/aWC3L7DG4U
- Adrian McEwen: Need something to do for the next 64 hours? You could watch the Museum in a Box #3Dprinting #livestream here at DoES Liverpool, courtesy of makespacelive twitter.com/_museuminabox/… #weeknotes
- Alex Lennon: #MakersHour hosted by the one and only chris huffee of Little Sandbox. I knew this was going to be a good day! #weeknotes twitter.com/GuildOfMakers/…
- Adrian McEwen: Great post from Dominic on the perennial makerspace/hackspace problem of storage. Makes me wonder if we should replace the racking here at DoES Liverpool with something more regimented #weeknotes bricolage.run/blog/2018/11/2…
- DoES Liverpool: Interesting bit of kit in the space at the moment – abdullah.kassim.75 has a #BGA reflow and pick-and-place for repairing phones (and other things) #weeknotes @ DoES Liverpool instagram.com/p/Bqxh2pXFnTE/…
- Alex Lennon: Hurray! Just got my first NB-IoT ping response over the Liverpool Vodafone IoT NB-IoT network DoES Liverpool Quectel #wehavethetechnology #weeknotes IoT Liverpool Meetup @defproc Andy Stanford-Clark pic.twitter.com/gJDoaQEBGF
- Thomas Butler: Getting into ‘mass’ hand manufacturing of amp boards for Museum in a Box DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/ciNOxiiAms
- Alex Lennon: Working out how the chocolate fountain works for Bella’s school fundraising project DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/HOvwaqtEcV
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Tuesday 04 December, 10:00am-3:00pm | Private Booking – Sale Sharks – Events Room |
| Tuesday 04 December, 6:30pm-9:30pm | Hack the Space Evening |
| Wednesday 05 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Linux User Group |
| Thursday 06 December, 6:30pm-9:00pm | Maker Night |
| Saturday 08 December, 10:00am-5:00pm | Liverpool Synthesiser Meet |
| Saturday 08 December, 10:00am-5:00pm | Maker Day |
| Sunday 09 December, 2:00pm-5:00pm | Christmas Decorations Workshop |
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, 694 closed
10 new issues:
- Investigate any improvements that can be made to lighting in Room 29
- Somebody should… clean up after they make Huel in the kitchen
- Make an instructions card for the phones
- Sort the milling bits properly by material, shank size and feeds and speeds
- buy new dishwasher tablets
- Create a new Instagram landing page for the website
- CNC Door Sign
- Make the label printer/roland pc workflows work entirely on a Raspberry Pi
- Monitor the running hours of Gerald
- Gerald’s USB extension not working
Featured issue: Replace toner (and belt unit?) in the OKI colour printer. Can we move this on or close it?
9 issues closed:
- Somebody should… clean up after they make Huel in the kitchen
- buy new dishwasher tablets
- Create a new Instagram landing page for the website
- Gerald’s USB extension not working
- Doing up the house. We need to clean up the CNC room, and provide it with a functional modern PC.
- Investigate “Electrically Powered Hold Open Device” for the main entrance door
- When we get our static IP back, re-enable the whitelist on the phones
- Make some new Gerald Rulers
- Look at whether there are any “no strings” funding sources to assist with the move
Thanks MatthewCroughan, johnmckerrell, zarino, goatchurchprime, 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!