Week 728 – Milk Crate LED Matrix, Boops, Bimblism

by | May 19, 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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Things of Note

  • birkenhack: What started off as trash in the street, then became disused trash in a friend’s garden after they ran out of space for it, has become a shiny new 2D LED Matrix wall in Birkenhack after a good cleanup in the sink. There are five ingredients to this LED Matrix wall:

1. Plastic Bottles
2. Standard British Milk Crates
3. Tinfoil
4. LEDs
5. Esp32 running #WLED software

#weeknotes #ledmatrix #upcycling #hackspace #birkenhack #birkenheadisthenewberlin

An image of the disused 2D LED matrix display made from recycled plastic bottles and milk crates laying in disrepair in someone's garden, before refurbishment

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 19 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 20 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm XR Liverpool
Wednesday 21 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 22 May, 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.
Sunday 25 May, 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.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 427 open, 1616 closed

1 new issue:

Featured issue: The symbol by the toilet door lock on the more accessible toilet doesn’t indicate which way to turn to open/close. Can we move this on or close it?

3 issues closed:

Thanks amcewen, 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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