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!
Covid-19
Click here for details of the measures we’re currently taking related to the COVID-19 situation. We’ll keep you updated if anything changes – make sure you’re following us via our Google Group, and/or via social media
Get Visors Into The Hands of Health Care Workers
We’re working with hospitals across Liverpool, Manchester and beyond to produce effective, low-cost visors, to help healthcare professionals keep doing their job throughout this crisis.
Click here to find out more and donate.
And makers, please get in touch if you’d like to help with production.
Things of Note
- Alex Lennon: Some AMAZING good news amongst all the worry! Max Zadow and I put a DoES Liverpool #PPE project plan into Helpful Engineering on Friday and the team there have accepted our project! #weeknotes #doescovidresponse pic.twitter.com/k68SIl9ZQu
- thewarineveryword: The full face shield masks at The Royal Liverpool are too heavy! Something to bear in mind, might seem light enough for a short test, something to consider in testing #weeknotes
- Thomas Butler: I made an led flash!(Using a home built 6502 based microcontroller that I’ve spent 2 weeks building and programmed in assembly code to use timer interrupts to flash all pins of 8 bit ports A & B on a 6532)DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/MWg13fzJIN
- Jackie Pease: Freelance journalist Vicky filming DoES Liverpool yesterday and interviewing Alex Lennon about our #COVID2019 visor project #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/859Jf3XAoE
- Jackie Pease: Some pictures from today’s #COVID19 visor cutting @doesliverpool: laser cutting, cleaning the visor supports #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/gdaNizH50a
- Jackie Pease: … chris huffee and Karl Dunkerley making shields, Adrian McEwen cleaning the laser cutter at the end of the day – it’s beginning to look like a production line! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/u6P09Nz5qC
- Thomas Butler: My 6502 computer is coming on leaps and bounds…It now has:
16kB RAM
32kB EEPROM
16 I/O pins
A 16×2 character output LCDAdd a serial port (and a few supporting functions as an os) and it should be able to run basic!DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/qqO7P1QUj3
Coming Up in the Next Week
Thursday 09 April, 7:00pm – 9:30pm Maker Night online at https://meet.jit.si/bubblino
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: 319 open, 1097 closed
No new issues
Featured issue: Perform an audit of the small tools, etc in the Workshop. Can we move this on or close it?
1 issue closed:
Thanks johnmckerrell!