Week 530 – Plastic Reuse

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

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10th Anniversary Celebrations

Things of Note

• Jackie Pease: A really interesting Wearables Night. Richard Sewell updated us on his #airgiants project as well as foam and paracord robots, plus #mayke cable tie experiments.
  #weeknotes twitter.com/jackie_pease/s… pic.twitter.com/Go9ItqIc3p
  
  
  
• MCQN Ltd: 📝 #weeknotes 824Using & Giving Back to Open Source🍦 Arthur misses out on ice cream
  🥪 after making a sandwich (of sorts)
  🗜️ plus an Open Fixture, while
  🔋 Adrian McEwen looks at a low-power motion sensor
  🐛 and debugs the #OpenSource SvgToGcode library🧵
• Matthew Croughan: In Liverpool? Thinking of coming to DoES Liverpool to make things? I just made a video on how to use the Vinyl Cutter we have here via #Inkcut and #Inkscape youtube.com/watch?v=JXfMrw… #weeknotes
• DoES Liverpool: Exciting neon thread and dissolvable stabiliser sample made by @kassimaker on our embroidery machine Threaderic – super bright even in daylight, even better with UV
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• 🇱 🇪 🇳 🇳 🌍 🇳: Had a lovely chat about some fun and funky #IoT projects with the balena folks and space expert Nico Maas on Friday… #weeknotes twitter.com/balena_io/stat…
• Jackie Pease: Prototype light up plastic flowers made at Plastic Tactics #plasticplaygroup @doesliverpool this afternoon using cut up milk bottles and cable ties (will replace with recycled plastic sheet!)
  #reusereducerecycle #wled #mybabysgotled #flowers #plasticflowersneverdie #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/0cHCrmGaIf
  
• DoES Liverpool: New use for some of the electronics tools @doesliverpool – AJ melting two pieces of recycled plant pot plastic together using a PCB holder and hot air gun at today’s Plastic Tactics #plasticplaygroup here this afternoon #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/3kMJUUroyv
  

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: 358 open, 1245 closed

10 new issues:

• Some issues with line engraving on Tony – investigate
• Install Lightburn camera on Tony.
• Clean Tony’s bed sections
• What To Do With Mail
• Centralise laser cutter troubleshooting guide
• Gerald beeping on start-up, and not stopping
• Alcove Maintenance 1
• Alcove extension lead has melted!
• MQTT/NodeRED down due to roof leak
• Remove ink marks from table in Dinky

Featured issue: Gerald software not working. Can we move this on or close it?

8 issues closed:

• Gerald beeping on start-up, and not stopping
• Alcove Maintenance 1
• Alcove extension lead has melted!
• MQTT/NodeRED down due to roof leak
• Create a video showing usage of the Roland Vinyl Cutter
• Blind cord in event room spontaneously(ish) disassembled
• New Laser Tony – Try cutting with different Windows Laptop
• Even bigger laser – rebuild and commissioning

Thanks arthurrowland, MatthewCroughan, magman2112!