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
- Mersey SEO: Secret Santa items produced at DoES Liverpool – shame about the manufacturing defect! I shall chastise the Elf!! Ahh, that’ll be me then… 🤪 #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/oJJQdEXJeQ
- Adrian McEwen: “What if we stopped buying stuff and started making it?” A good documentary on BBC Radio 4 about #making, #repaircafe, #craft… Any #Liverpool people inspired by it should get along to DoES Liverpool #weeknotes bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
- Mersey SEO: Looking forward to this fab event with some test prints done this morning – nice slate coaster for your brew? #weeknotes twitter.com/DoESLiverpool/… pic.twitter.com/uXzJL5V7qB
- DoES Liverpool: Stuck for ideas for Christmas prezzies? Why not buy a place on our 4 week workshop series on making wearable technology? Sewing! Python programming! ESP8266! NeoPixels! Ideal for beginners in wearables!
#weeknotes #wearabletech #micropython #cosplayeventbrite.co.uk/e/wearable-tec… - Dakes: It’s great to be here, fabulous space & great products. #weeknotes twitter.com/merseyseo/stat…
- DoES Liverpool: Well done Seán Gleeson for all his hard work organising Fabric District Christmas Market. It was ace! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/QkKLaYLpzo
- DoES Liverpool: Congratulations to Matthew Croughan on the tidy-up he’s done on our three #Creality 3D printers. All now building and running his balena #octobalena containers based on OctoPrint 🐙 👏👏👏 #weeknotesgithub.com/MatthewCrougha… pic.twitter.com/RPDvFHmm8s
Coming Up in the Next Week
It’s Christmas!
Festive greetings from everyone at DoES Liverpool. We’ll be closed from 24th December until 2nd January (reopening on 3rd January). Access available throughout the festive period for out of hours members. If you need to gain access, feel free to drop us an email and find out if any of the organisers are in.
We’re also having a Hack the Space day fro 10am on Sunday 29th December, so if you want to help tidy up and/or fix things, then please come along.
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: 305 open, 1052 closed
9 new issues:
- Recycle cardboard into 3d objects via new popular method
- Buy a can crusher for the kitchen
- Create a high availability MQTT broker in DoES
- Create a wiki page explaining how to run a party at DoES
- Get a new SIM for the DoES mobile phone
- Internet or power off at does?
- Standardise Creality 3D Printer Configurations
- Document Creality 3D Printers and organise 3dprinters wiki segment
- Gerald currently incapable of producing straight line engravings
Featured issue: Replace toner (and belt unit?) in the OKI colour printer. Can we move this on or close it?
4 issues closed:
- Standardise Creality 3D Printer Configurations
- Gerald currently incapable of producing straight line engravings
- Button that raises the bed on Gerald isn’t working
- Fluorescent tube on Gerald needs replacing
Thanks MatthewCroughan, magman2112!