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
- Adrian McEwen: So, all being well, in a short while I’ll get a DM from @DoESLiverpool asking if it can have my consent to include this post in the next #weeknotes
🤞 assuming I’ve deployed the code correctly and haven’t broken it when I removed the final bits of testing protection
- Adrian McEwen: Passed the next stage too *phew*
Actually, if I tag this post with #weeknotes then I can test the image handling when it gets to publishing them.Not much more I can test until next Monday when we see if the new blog post gets created properly.
- Adrian McEwen: Spent the evening levelling up my #FreeCAD skills to model a stereo pot, including forays into shapebinders and the drafting workbench to create an array of parts.
Slightly disappointed that the final step needed to export it to #Kicad merged all the bodies to a single one and so discarded all the different materials/colours I’d carefully constructed beforehand 🤣#weeknotes #ibal249
- Adrian McEwen: Still, it’s imported nicely into #Kicad and should let me get on with designing the case for it now.
#weeknotes #ibal249 #FreeCAD #OSHW
- MCQN Ltd: We’ve got the trinocular microscope out today while we debug the latest production batch of Vicino NFC boards
#weeknotes #ibal243 #NFC #RFID #OSHW #electronics #debugging
- Adrian McEwen: @MCQN_Ltd Probably shouldn’t have taken that photo while it’s looking at my failed attempt at some hot-air rework on that board 🤣
At least that one wasn’t working before I attacked it. Those varicaps – the small black square with “52*K” printed on it – are tiny though. I’ve left the cleaning cotton bud in the attached photo for scale 😆#weeknotes
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 19 August, 6:00pm-8:00pm | 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group |
| Wednesday 21 August, 6:00pm-8:00pm | Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party |
| Thursday 22 August, 5:00pm-8:00pm | PVTV Creative Meet Up |
| Thursday 22 August, 6:00pm-8:30pm | 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 25 August, 2:00pm-5:00pm | Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop) In 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: http://instagram.com/plastacs http://twitter.com/plastacs http://facebook.com/plastictacticsliverpool |
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: 411 open, 1527 closed
1 new issue:
Featured issue: Collect a list of people who sell things made at DoES. Can we move this on or close it?
2 issues closed:
- Doorbell for the main space isn’t working
- Laser cutter head on Gerald moving to the left on start up, but not recognising limit switch
Thanks JackiePease!