Week 433 – PSCD32 and cider making

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

• Arthur: Etch swatches to help people optimise time, colour and resolution using the laser cutters @doesliverpool, featuring keyrings for The Healthy Gut Company 🥦#weeknotes pic.twitter.com/FICAQb6dnL
  
  
• John Cassidy (M7DXO): Today’s office.Checking in on TheThingsIndustries The Things Network RAK GWs and hitting Belfast, The Great Orme and Manchester.

  Also testing some black magic NBIoT / LoRa coverage via our Pycom nodes

  Nice work Adrian McEwen, I am getting lots of blue/greens👍🏴‍☠️

  #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/iwMwNoJST3

  
• chris huffee: Finn’s seven point route to profit, written at DoES Liverpool #makernight #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/AuuC5ZG2bx
  
• Skull Kid: #3dprinting a protective case for the prototype #pscd32 courtesy of DoES Liverpool and Alex Lennon . Many thanks for your help! #weeknotes #makernight pic.twitter.com/V4vG9VPEOf
  
  
  
  
• Skull Kid: #3dprinting is complete! Now the #PSCD32 prototype can sit inside, the cables can go between the pegs and all is well #weeknotes @Doesliverpool
  ➕Making Russ’ day by letting him play #TheChaosEngine all day on #cd32
  ➖Ruining Russ’ day by letting him play The Chaos Engine all day pic.twitter.com/SvdjN3oGuK
  
  
  
• Alex Lennon: Diving tag logo prototypes #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/IcBdmEPSBN
  
• Jackie Pease: My Mum’s 80th birthday – thanks to DoES Liverpool designer Zarino Zappia for help with the cake toppers #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/rOX6QUZkYe
  
  
• Alex Lennon: Mike and the gang busily making cider here DoES Liverpool today #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/i1SLTWuCG1
  
• Jackie Pease: Has anyone at DoES Liverpool got one of these Speedweves? This picture is from Repair Cafè Glasgow and it looks like something interesting to play with at next Sunday’s DoES Liverpool repair café #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/hfWdgCg4zT
  
• Jackie Pease: And there’s a blog post about Speedweves by Festival of Maintenance
  speaker tomofholland here: tomofholland.com/2011/06/23/the… #weeknotes
• Jackie Pease: Good advice – and for further #IoT #maintainanceinspo, Love Hz will be exploring why the Internet of Things (IoT) is so difficult to maintain at next Saturday’s Festival of Maintenance in #Liverpool #weeknotes
  Tickets here: ti.to/festival-of-ma… twitter.com/embedded_iot/s…

Coming Up in the Next Week

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.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 259 open, 997 closed

10 new issues:

• Reinstall the esp32powflash device in the utility room
• Work out and document how to use MiraBox HDMI capture box for events
• Organise wiki documents for 3d printers and octoprint
• Pay ICO fee
• Evaluate Octoprint
• Contest business rates bill
• Apply for discretionary business rates relief
• Add some biocide to the coolant for the laser-cutters
• Run regular training/learn-ins for basic infrastructure
• Move the QR codifier to the dymo printer and document

Featured issue: Install a hearing loop inside event rooms. Can we move this on or close it?

6 issues closed:

• Reinstall the esp32powflash device in the utility room
• Gerald not working.
• Finish the Defence Dress power supply, and return it to Little Inventors
• Test support for OctoPrint / OctoPi with Ultimaker
• Take a couple of good photos of Room 29
• Feedback wanted: Equipment risk categories

Thanks goatchurchprime, magman2112, zarino, MatthewCroughan, johnmckerrell, amcewen!