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!
April Start Boost Membership
Please help us spread the word!
If you, or any of your friends, could do with a Boost to get a new idea off the ground (or even just to keep going…), then take a look at our Boost scheme – 6 months free desk or workshop membership here at DoES Liverpool, conveniently situated near the centre of the city. Join our innovative community!
It’s a draw so everyone has an equal chance.
https://doesliverpool.com/co-working/spring-boost/
Trip to North West Computer Museum and Leigh Hackspace
We’re organising a DoES Epic Trip to Leigh for 29th March. You can follow the discussion in our Google Group here. There are 7 people going so far, get in touch if you want to join us.
Things of Note
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We had another very successful morning testing this week over at
This phase was to move over to a battery back mobile 5G gateway to test wearable tags around the campus for our
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- Adrian McEwen:Today’s task: find out if you can plait LED noodles with old gear/brake cables.First off, I need to dismantle the last quick LED noodle experiment, my quick-and-dirty rear bike arrow.#weeknotes #LED
- Adrian McEwen:So, it seems that you can plait noodles and brake cables 😀Shortens the length of the LED quite a bit, and gives it an interesting wavy pattern. A little tricky to get a tight weave on the plait given the difference in strength/flexibility of the brake cable versus the noodle.#weeknotes #LED #plait #BikeTooter
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 10 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm | 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group |
| Wednesday 12 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party |
| Thursday 13 March, 9:00am-6:00pm | Jelly Liverpool |
| Thursday 13 March, 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 14 March, 2:30pm-4:30pm | 8th Wardrobe Talks |
| Sunday 16 March, 11:00am-3:00pm | Repair Café |
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: 424 open, 1598 closed
No new issues
Featured issue: Rework power plug/sockets for Sheila. Can we move this on or close it?
3 issues closed:
- Get another remote for Simon’s projector (in the Event Space)
- Drill press chuck jaws are stuck open
- Buy a replacement ink collection unit for the sublimation printer Ricoh 3110DN
Thanks JackiePease, huffeec, pyrosyndicate!