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
@amcewen So @adamgreenfield‘s concept of a #Lifehouse, a community hub for crisis-response and #MutualAid led to me writing an exploration of what @DoESLiverpool is, and how it overlaps with the idea.
Notes from a proto-Lifehouse – musings on makerspaces, a convivial future, and our pandemic response.
http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thinking/notes_from_a_protolifehouse.html
https://does.social/@amcewen@mastodon.me.uk/110871048034237840
@amcewen Today’s task: investigating point-to-point protocols running over LoRa (i.e. explicitly not LoRaWAN)
I’ve been poking around lots of LoRa #Arduino libraries as part of this, and smiling gently to myself as I keep encountering the “beginPacket(); write(); endPacket();” pattern that I introduced in the Ethernet library when adding UDP..
Nice to encounter faint ripples of past me #weeknotes
https://does.social/@amcewen@mastodon.me.uk/110875850833791249
Jackie Pease Trying out the #inkstitch #sashiko extension on Fred, the @DoESLiverpool embroidery machine at #makernight. I heat pressed salvaged blue bubble wrap and used baking parchment as a stabiliser (I’m hoping I’ll be able to soak it off afterwards). It works better than I expected and I might look around for some more eco thread.
#WeekNotes
Image of Machine Embroidered Sashiko in an Embroidery Hoop
I LOVE the way the crowd-sourced activity on this embedded career roadmap is leading to enhancements! #weeknotes #opensource #crowdsourcing You got any thoughts there @amcewen?https://t.co/wUtMP5Fsmb https://t.co/tbreFaPQ65 pic.twitter.com/yzk7SpJ5NS
— Alex (@embedded_iot) August 12, 2023
It was a privilege today to be invited by @majortimspace to judge #STEM presentations from this year's cohort of #YoungAmbassadorProgramme. I was blown away by the quality of these young people! Fantastic work everybody! #weeknoteshttps://t.co/SLlvrlGhq1
— Alex (@embedded_iot) August 12, 2023
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 14 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm | 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group |
| Thursday 17 August, 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 20 August, 11:00am-3:00pm | Repair Café – Get your free ticket here |
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: 383 open, 1468 closed
3 new issues:
Featured issue: Rear fire escape shutter is dysfunctional, does not close.. Can we move this on or close it?
2 issues closed:
Thanks JackiePease!
