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!
November Future Gazing / Community Meeting – Saturday
The most popular time in the Doodle Poll was Saturday 23rd November 4pm – 6pm, so we’ve booked the Event Space for then.
Please try to make it along to have your say in the way that DoES Liverpool is run and find out what you can do to help. If you can’t get there in person then get in touch and we’ll organise access via Zoom.
Things of Note
- MCQN Ltd:Bike PCB bonanza today! Just placed the order for:
* New prototype My Bike’s Got LED boards
* More of the Microbit LED boards for kids workshops
* The audio-level-shifter board for @amcewen‘s bike soundsystem#weeknotes #ibal234 #WLED #microbit #ibal249 #ibal250 #Kicad #BikeTooter
- Adrian McEwen:Looking forward to trying out the new My Bike’s Got LED boards. On-board charging! An ESP32-C3 so we can do sound-reactive 🎶 And @huffeec has shrunk the footprint down so it’s almost half the size of the v1 boards 😀#weeknotes
- DoES Liverpool:A simple turbine made by Sean J at #MakerNight from wood and laser cut acrylic, as part of a stem outreach session, to teach kids about electricity generation.
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- DoES Liverpool:Poppy from Shelf Games, who are based here at DoES Liverpool.
You can find their games at shelf.itch.ioLove the Shelf logo on these dye sublimation mugs!
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- Jackie Pease:I’ve been experimenting with Indian Kolams in Kuguri-Zashi Sashiko-ish style – inspired by @anu1905 https://alpaca.pubpub.org/pub/eljjyi80/release/6.
I haven’t yet managed to duplicate the machine-embroidered grid but I’m working on it! Here’s a couple of 3-3 dot Kolams on a hand-stitched grid (I was surprised they aren’t all single path).
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Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 18 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm | 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group |
| Tuesday 19 November, 6:15pm-8:15pm | XR Liverpool |
| Wednesday 20 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party |
| Thursday 21 November, 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. |
| Saturday 23 November, 4:00pm – 6:00pm | November Future Gazing / Community Meeting Please try to make it along to have your say in the way that DoES Liverpool is run and find out what you can do to help. If you can’t get there in person then get in touch and we’ll organise access via Zoom. |
| Sunday 24 November, 2:00pm-5:00pm | Plastic Playgroup 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 @plastacs 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: 413 open, 1552 closed
2 new issues:
Featured issue: Dispose of paint tins. Can we move this on or close it?
3 issues closed:
- Get a new C6 to C13 adapter for the PAT tester
- Gerald’s bed is very wobbly
- Apply waterproof varnish to the bookcase and tables from Urban Workbench
Thanks amcewen, JackiePease!