Week 723 – OSHWA certifications, NixOS, Netting

by | Apr 15, 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!

Fibre Arts Room

An important message from Liz:

Last week the Fibre Arts team put in a huge effort to tidy up the Fibre Arts room so it is a more appealing place to work and create. Stuff that had been dumped or left lying around was disposed of. We would appreciate it if equipment (including the ironing board and ladder) as well as materials, could be put away after you use them. If you would like to donate materials, could you please put them away or let the Fibre Arts team know that they are there. Going forward, in order to keep the room tidy for all users, materials that left lying around may be gotten rid of!

Things of Note

  • Gabby sent in this photo of plant netting she created, with a netting needle she laser cut from plywood using our laser cutter Gerald.

A black and white photo of netting and a netting needle on a capet

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 14 April, 6:00pm-8:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 15 April, 5:00pm-6:00pm Irish Language Group
Wednesday 16 April, 6:00pm-8:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 17 April, 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 20 April, 10:00am-2:00pm 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: 429 open, 1607 closed

3 new issues:

Featured issue: Construct the crowdfunder reward “Wall of Heroes”. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

Thanks JackiePease!

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Maker Events are regular meetings organised by DoES Liverpool to provide a space for people to learn, experiment and work on projects related to Physical computing, Laser cutting, Arduino, Electronics, 3D printing…

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