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: Russell Cottier HEX Caroline Keep 🌟😊 Spark Penketh Makerspace #MakerMonday #MakersOfDoESLiverpool Paul Geering here is showing off the #NixieTube clock that he built using a display salvaged from a British submarine! You can just see another of his projects, a hacked Furby, peeking out from underneath… #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/f4FTPQHMWI
- Ross Dalziel: Amazing how fabric based voltage dividers made by laura pullig feel so sensitive! I’ll be using them with various #ESP8266 micropython boards at the DoES Liverpool #Wearables night from 7pm tomorrow 10th Dec with Jackie Pease for some workshops in the new year #weeknotes
- DoES Liverpool: Yo!bot already functioning with power of mqtt thanks to Julian Todd #weeknotes Alex Lennon pic.twitter.com/BDfY6tqSGh
- Alex Lennon: Thought for the day: Perhaps a good chef knows how to cook, and a great chef knows how to save the dish? In the same way, perhaps a good engineer knows how to make the product and a great engineer knows how to ensure it’s delivered? #weeknotes
- Jess Shannon: My little nephews Christmas present, designed by me and made DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/ZQtXorj3u1
- Alex Lennon: A little background on the DoES Liverpool #makespace #hackspace philosophy #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/ujPL0W8oaO
- Alex Lennon: Busy getting set up astralship.org for tonight’s exciting live-streaming local band live music event! Starts 7pm! DoES Liverpool Carwyn #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/MEIHtoNB4O
- Matthew Croughan: Hard at work with the makespacelive team setting up for a livestream at astralship.org, featuring the famed fernanda wings from DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/Y3LvWls699
- makespacelive: Sound check. It’s all coming together nicely #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/JDewLanYz2
- Alex Lennon: What an amazing and beautiful journey here astralship.org tonight! Much learnt for makespacelive eh Dan Lynch #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/uZWDST8Ui3
- Alex Lennon: And now… the after show party astralship.org !!! Jackie Pease Zarino Zappia #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/nka19faSXW
- Alex Lennon: Me new #ChristmasJumper just arrived! DoES Liverpool biglesp Greggs #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/4G1O9FnI09
- Jackie Pease: Just collected Sam Meech Electronic knitting machine from Re-Dock Now at DoES Liverpool and looks in great condition – just need to find a power supply. Thanks Sam! Ed @holajacquie Adrian McEwen laura pullig Ross Dalziel #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/dQ0RkTgliR
- Laura James: Another #weeknotes is #monthnotes: premodern internet, technical debt, ageing/longevity.bit.ly/2RN7U2q
- Nate: Week 46 #weeknotes ‘Value’. A frankly depressing read in a depressing week: medium.com/@nathan_nowinh…
- Alex Lennon: The lovely people GeoBoxers have kindly allowed me to upload a map of Fabric District to a shared server. Here’s the initial view of The Tapestry on Kempston Street wherein lies DoES Liverpool. Who wants to help us model the #DigitalTwin in #MineCraft? #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/RBgUzHJUOy
- Alex Lennon: We’ve made some progress modelling the outside of The Tapestry in Fabric District KQ Liverpool for our DoES Liverpool #DigitalTwin #Weeknotesyoutu.be/IGXXLQw7zGM
- DoES Liverpool: Some pictures from our Xmas party last night. Hard to stop some people from making stuff…
Thanks to badatdad for the lovely food
#weeknotes #xmasparty #makerspace #coworkingspace instagram.com/p/B6Fx9Xwnrsh/… - Alex Lennon: I’ve put together some #gettingstart instructions on the #digitaltwin project DoES Liverpool The Tapestry Fabric District KQ Liverpool. Would appreciate any and all feedback on whether I’ve missed anything! #weeknotesgithub.com/DoESLiverpool/…
- Alex Lennon: Hurray! So I have my very first Sponge Powered #minecraft plugin integrated into my server. Doesn’t do much yet but it’s a big step (hard work too!) #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/WUUvRkUFAQ
- Plastic Tactics: Experimental earrings from today’s plastic playgroup, designed by Joe and Paul, made from milk bottle tops and waste 3D prints from @doesliverpool ♻️#weeknotes #CraftHour #preciousplastic pic.twitter.com/hkXNUCgGSX
- Plastic Tactics: These decorative experiments made DoES Liverpool by Karen A Scott Maker at today’s plastic playgroup remind me of rice crispie cakes 🌾Shredded plastic flakes melted inside cookie cutters with a heat gun 🔥🔫
^arthur
#plasticplaygroup #weeknotes #CraftHour pic.twitter.com/svPLFa8uDH
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Tuesday 17 December, 6:30pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Sewing Club |
| Wednesday 18 December, 6:30pm-9:00pm | XR Liverpool |
| Thursday 19 December, 7:00pm-9:30pm | Maker Night |
| Thursday 19 December, 7:00pm-8:00pm | Community Meeting |
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: 300 open, 1050 closed
8 new issues:
- Physically represent maintainership and documentation of machines
- Button that raises the bed on Gerald isn’t working
- Add a Sonoff to the rock tumbler
- Create a DoES Liverpool Digital Twin in Minecraft
- Organize a Friday epic trip to Bangor Fablab and then stay overnight in the Astral ship
- Missing/snapped Kinetic NC bits need to be reported and replaced
- Investigate options for interfacing with the electronic knitting machine
Get power supply for the electronic knitting machine
Featured issue: Construct the crowdfunder reward “Wall of Heroes”. Can we move this on or close it?
3 issues closed:
- Finish decorating the Xmas tree
- Fix fault in Octoscreen causing issues with our Octoprint enabled printers
- Find the missing power plug for the microscope
Thanks jackie1050, MatthewCroughan, cheapjack!