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: 4 month old chorkie pup Benji on his first visit to DoES Liverpool with his human David, a regular user of the laser cutters here
#chorkie #WeekNotes pic.twitter.com/MXXp07ffmg - rrrrrryder: Had fun playing DoES Liverpool
Love these colours!
Thanks Jackie for your patience with me.
#WeekNotes pic.twitter.com/tCJeoW2G4u - MCQN Ltd: Lighting up the FACT Metroscopes; Jackie Pease‘s LED comet; battery charging debugging and a smidge of NFC – chris huffee @huffeec@does.social writing the three-#weeknotes this week.Weeks 912, 913 and 914 – Drop all the platesmcqn.com/posts/weeks-91…#LED #Neopixel #IndieMfg #art
- @alex@bobiverse.social: So me and the boy went into DoES Liverpool to catch up – and @matthewcroughan@defenestrate.it jailbroke an Android phone to put #MobileNix on it. Kind of impressed. Really want to understand the parallels and synergies with Yocto Project #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/CPROOIh6L3
- @alex@bobiverse.social: Meaning of life that. Innit #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/whY2UcU1kT
- @alex@bobiverse.social: My god. Blue Calabrese and Cherry-wood smoked grilled gammon slices. If I get these on some blinis they will go like hot cakes #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/huo9pznczq
- @matthewcroughan@defenestrate.it: After installing Mobile #NixOS for @alex@bobiverse.social and his son, we ran `nix run nixpkgs#xonotic`, started gaming right away. This is genuinely amazing, it’s a portable LAN gaming station.#xonotic #nix #reproducible #weeknotes #linux #linuxgaming #androidisboring pic.twitter.com/1JCd1eC67a
- @matthewcroughan@defenestrate.it: At Baltic Creative CIC with Julian Todd showing off nixified.ai and Mobile #NixOS running #Blender, #KiCad, #Xonotic, #LibreOffice, #Survex #FreeCad #Ardour #MuseScore #ObsStudio #VsCode, more.#weeknotes pic.twitter.com/9ENNKco1IZ
- @alex@bobiverse.social: I just wanted to share this #LEGO picture frame with you. My amazingly talented brother has started picture framing again and made this for my nephew. #MakersHour DoES Liverpool #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/NhzDLI30os
- @alex@bobiverse.social: So happy our little #MING project has been of interest and use to Alex Corvis💡🛠️🎈📡 in a teaching setting. Born of an itch Julian Todd @matthewcroughan@defenestrate.it and I wanted to scratch. Building on the shoulders of #OpenSource giants and enabled by the DoES Liverpool community #weeknotes twitter.com/alexcorvis84/s…
Coming Up in the Next Week
Monday 17 April, 9:00am-5:30pm | Fearless Academy |
Monday 17 April, 7:00pm-9:00pm | 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group |
Thursday 20 April, 7:00pm-9:30pm | Maker Night
Our free weekly evening meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used. |
Sunday 23 April, 10:00am-5:00pm |
Hack the Space DayAfter a bit of a break, we’re planning the next Hack the Space day for Sunday 23 April 2023. If you don’t know what a Hack the Space day is, it’s a time for everyone to get together and work on making DoES Liverpool an even better place to be for all of us. Following on from the pandemic, we had a lot of tidying up and moving stuff around to do, and that’s been the focus of recent Hack the Space days. This time we hope that we can make a bit of progress on some of our open issues, like making shelves for test equipment like the oscilloscope and microscope, making sure we’ve got all the signs we need in the space, and even finding COSHH forms for solvents. Please save the date and come along if you can – some of the issues in the Somebody Should repository https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/issues already have the “Hack the Space” label so take a look at those and/or look through all the open issues and see if there’s anything you’d like to have a go at. If there’s anything you think we need to get beforehand so that we’re ready to get down to work on the day, then get in touch with one of the organisers |
Sunday 23 April, 2:00pm 5:00pm |
Plastic PlaygroupIn a world with mountains of plastic and molehills of play, let’s get our spades out and shift the balance.Make new things from abandoned plastic with us. Plantpots, purses … pedalos? Shred plastic. Blend it. Meld scraps together with a heat gun. Make sheets. Laser cut it. CNC it. Stitch potato bags together with soldering iron? Make fabrics with a regular iron? What have we got, what can we make? We don’t know – let’s figure it out! Two rules: 1. No Objectives – this is an aimless and wandering session. 2. Bring Your Own Initiative – this is an active session and we’ll help you get creative. Every two weeks on a Sunday afternoon, between 2pm and 5pm. Facilitated by Plastic Tactics – follow on social for the latest updates, and to see what we make if you can’t be here in person: |
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: 385 open, 1415 closed
6 new issues:
- QuickDraw McGraw jamming on x axis
- doorbots not updating
- Prints Adam (3D printer) Needs new piece (bowden tube white clip thingy) As I broke it, sorry.
- guide for small laser
- Prints Adam slipping during print
- Marcus not booting up
Featured issue: Sort out Reward Shirts. Can we move this on or close it?
6 issues closed:
- doorbots not updating
- Prints Adam slipping during print
- Marcus not booting up
- Fred needs white bobbin thread
- The black and silver kettle is broken
- Fred in need(le)
Thanks JackiePease, huffeec, mickrick1!