Week 754 – Packaging with FreeCAD, 3DP at the Repair Cafe

by | Nov 17, 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!

New Year 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. Applications are open until 11:59pm on Sunday 30th November 2025.

Find out more and apply for Boost Membership here

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

These are the events booked in for this week. Click the link or contact the event organiser for more details. Want to run something yourself? Check the host your own events page on our website.

Monday 17 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 18 November, 6:15pm-8:15pm XR Liverpool
Tuesday 18 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 19 November, 6:30pm-9:00pm LCR Code Club
Thursday 20 November, 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, CNC routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Friday 21 November, 6:00pm-9:00pm Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!

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: 411 open, 1698 closed

5 new issues:

Featured issue: Work out and set up an induction process for the CNC router. Can we move this on or close it?

7 issues closed:

Thanks Robotorium, nicgreenh-bit, magman2112, JackiePease!

Community Maker Events

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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