Week 718 – Plaiting with LED Noodles and Bike Cables

by defnet_does | Mar 10, 2025 | Weeknotes | 0 comments

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!

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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

We had another very successful morning testing this week over at

@STFC_Matters

@STFC_B2B

This phase was to move over to a battery back mobile 5G gateway to test wearable tags around the campus for our

@esa supported #INST project. #weeknotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIAO_HWc-UQ
Alex: Experimenting. This, my dears, is what happens to you when you drink beer #weeknotes

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.

See all the issues…

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:

Thanks JackiePease, huffeec, pyrosyndicate!

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Week 718 – Plaiting with LED Noodles and Bike Cables

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Week 718 – Plaiting with LED Noodles and Bike Cables

April Start Boost Membership

Trip to North West Computer Museum and Leigh Hackspace

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Somebody Should

Community Maker Events

Need a Desk or Workshop space?

Hotdesking

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Workshop use only

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