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
- Matthew Croughan: Dicking about with Julian Todd who’s experimenting with WLED running on an ESP8266, look at that web interface! This is just bonkers #FOSS #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/5BnMM2Tdy2
- Alex Lennon (making 🍀 Tam O’ Shanter’s 💰🐮🎤): Fantastically positive afternoon hosting the team from Blackburne House here DoES Liverpool. Feels like we’re all on the same journey! The Tapestry Fabric District KQ Liverpool #weeknotes #techforgood twitter.com/SSENorthWest/s…
- Alex Lennon (making 🍀 Tam O’ Shanter’s 💰🐮🎤): My first attempt at #sousvide cooking. Nothing fancy. A rump roast done with the sous vide stick overnight. I think I may fall in love with this cooking technique #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/MMVRgjtEVY
- DoES Liverpool: Beth aka The Purple Stitcher from Liverpool Sewing Club, who use the Event Space at @doesliverpool for their twice monthly meetings.
She’s wearing a beautiful handmade cardigan that she completed this evening #weeknotes#diy #sewing pic.twitter.com/95ZzybBJVu
- DoES Liverpool: A new task for our knitting machine at yesterday’s #makernight: Paul Geering and thingomy experimenting with QR codes #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/p5dbLEEy88
- Alex Lennon (making 🍀 Tam O’ Shanter’s 💰🐮🎤): Kicking off some #iot #sousvide picanha steaks for later #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/rnHc39SxbK
- DoES Liverpool: In the zone at HEX latest “An Introduction to Rubber Stamping” workshop at @doesliverpool yesterday, plus some lovely work by sanna king produced on the day#rubberstamping #diy #stamping #doepicstuff #learnsomethingnew #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/GhssQ4PlKj
- Alex Lennon (making 🍀 Tam O’ Shanter’s 💰🐮🎤): Clip is too short to show the amazing ness of what Julian Todd and Jess Shannon were doing with Adrian McEwen’s light installation DoES Liverpool this weekend. This is gonna be big! #weeknotes twitter.com/magicrabbit25/…
- DoES Liverpool: More knitting machine experimentation this weekend, from @hexceramic, Ilde and caroline corby
Patterns were created using Inkscape, a familiar tool for many laser and vinyl cutter users here! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/IT3MS8b85K
- Jackie Pease: It’s Wearable Tech night at DoES Liverpool this Tuesday 10 March from 7 – 9pm. Everyone’s welcome including beginners. Work on your own projects or join in with others.
github.com/DoESLiverpool/… #weeknotes - DoES Liverpool: Our next Repair Café is on Sunday 15th March from 11am 3pm. Bring your broken stuff and we’ll help to fix it. Volunteers welcome!
Here’s @spidereternity who was able to solder his kitchen scales back together at last month’s event with help from our volunteers #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/GedpTPlzqi
- violetmaze 🐨 💬🦔💬🐨: Plastic Tactics Thanks for helping me make the recycled from bottle tops soap dish! Perfect for my parents! 🧼 Plastic Tactics DoES Liverpool #Weeknotes pic.twitter.com/05bbVBCVcF
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Tuesday 10 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Wearable Tech Group |
| Thursday 12 March, 9:00am-6:00pm | Jelly Liverpool |
| Thursday 12 March, 7:00pm-9:30pm | Maker Night |
| Saturday 14 March, 9:30am-11:30am | Industrial Sewing Machine Induction with Cathy |
| Saturday 14 March, 10:00am-5:00pm | Maker Day |
| Sunday 15 March, 11:00am-3:00pm | Repair Café |
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: 316 open, 1088 closed
10 new issues:
- EMFCamp Thursday 23 – Monday 26 July 2020 near Hereford
- CCC conference in Hamburg 10 – 13 April 2020
- Pick a date for our Epic trip to Farset Labs
- Intercom phone in Events Room not working?
- Gerald not cutting at full power
- Sophia bed alignment issue
- Sophia bed alignment check
- Get an improved payment plan for business rates
- Install bed levelling sensor on alex-cr10s
- We’re out of hotglue
Featured issue: Install a hearing loop inside event rooms. Can we move this on or close it?
6 issues closed:
- Intercom phone in Events Room not working?
- Gerald not cutting at full power
- Sophia bed alignment check
- Install bed levelling sensor on alex-ender3
- Apply for discretionary business rates relief
- Organize more DoES epic trips
Thanks amcewen, magman2112, RussCoty, MatthewCroughan, johnmckerrell, goatchurchprime!