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
- MCQN Ltd:We had a great turn out tonight for our hands-on soldering workshop at https://does.social/@DoESLiverpool.Teaching the basics of assembling your own Printed Circuit Board (PCB) were @huffeec & @amcewenThe workshop was so well received we may well run it again.
#weeknotes #PCB #IOT #Liverpool
- Adrian McEwen:@MCQN_Ltd it was a fun evening! Great to have another couple of dozen folk in the community who know their way round surface-mount soldering and how to wrangle a reflow oven 😀Thanks @defnetmedia for organising it; and @Knottyashcreative, @Snoof and Paul for helping out too!Hooking the trinocular microscope up to the massive telly in @DoESLiverpool worked really nicely for inspecting the boards after they were done.
- Chris Huffee:@DoESLiverpool @Snoof
And we’re there! Social energy indicator badge based on a design by @Snoof#weeknotes #badgelife - DoES Liverpool:Setting up for today’s synth meetup (Saturday 1st February 11:00 – 17:00). Everyone welcome!
#WeekNotes - DoES Liverpool:New member Natalie:
“First time ever using an embroidery machine after attending the Maker Night Thursday evening. After getting an introduction and testing designs, I have now committed to come every night and try new ideas.”
#WeekNotes
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 03 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm | 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group |
| Tuesday 04 February, 6:30pm-9:30pm | Hack the Space Evening (Software) |
| Wednesday 05 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Linux User Group |
| Thursday 06 February, 7:00pm-11:00pm | LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group) |
| Thursday 06 February, 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. |
| Friday 07 February, 7:30pm-11:00pm | PVTV Fringe Flicks |
| Saturday 08 February, 12:00pm-6:00pm | Maker Day Our free monthly daytime 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 09 February, 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: 420 open, 1582 closed
8 new issues:
- Sterile eyewash by the laser cutter room is out to date
- Lightburn Updates on both Computers
- Follow up the solder workshop with monthly soldering related meetups
- Tony (laser-cutter) alarm lock
- Github Member
- Motorbike Parking
- Pen plotter McGraw not plotting correctly
- Make signage for the fire door lock
Featured issue: Tony not engraving well. Can we move this on or close it?
8 issues closed:
- Github Member
- Write an article clarifying what to expect from Does and vice versa
- Phaser 7100N Colour printer not working
- Intermittent Internet access issues
- Queen Victoria’s paper roll has run out
- Write some tweets/FB posts/etc. the Fabric District can send out to tell people what we offer
- Make Dinky a nice space for meetings
- Find a way to get github to send email notifications to the laser team
Thanks pyrosyndicate, Robotorium, amcewen, JackiePease, johnmckerrell!