Week 761 – Projects at DoES

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! The easiest way is to post on Mastodon – if we follow you there, just add #weeknotes to any post you want included. If you’re not on Mastodon but would like to be, chat to one of the organisers and we’ll help you get started. And of course, you can always just send us an email!

Projects at DoES

Neil has created a new page on the website to showcase projects, products, and other work created by members of the DoES Liverpool community. You can take a look here.

This is part of our wider effort to promote what we do to all the people who don’t know enough about us yet. If you have a project or piece of work you’d like to be featured, please get in touch with Neil.

Things of Note

• Adrian McEwen:Blogged the dog-eared pages from the last book I finished in 2025: Hacking Diversity by @inquilineMy copy will be on the @DoESLiverpool bookshelves shortly, if anyone wants to borrow ithttps://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/books/blog_all_dogeared_pages_hacking_diversity_by_christina_dunbarhester/#bookstodon #hacking #diversity #weeknotes
• Jackie Pease:Cord maker drill attachment #2 – this time in PETG and with 3D printer grease as lubricant. It works a lot better, despite the print having lifted from the bed slightly, due to cold.

  The second picture shows the output using jersey strips given to me by Sanna. I’m pleased with this but have run out of jersey – aiming to source some more!

  

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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 05 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 06 January, 6:30pm-9:30pm	Hack the Space Evening (Software)
Tuesday 06 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 07 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 08 January, 9:00am-6:00pm	Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 08 January, 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.
Saturday 10 January, 12:00pm-6:00pm	Maker Day Our monthly daytime 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.
Sunday 11 January, 2:00pm-5:00pm	Plastic Playground 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! 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://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: 416 open; 1707 closed; 7 updated this week

2 new issues:

• More people turned up for Maker Night tonight…
• Damage to rubber cover of print head on 3D printer Marcus

 

Featured issue: Install a great AV setup for the events room. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

• Create a “Cost of Being Epic” poster for the space (and online)

Thanks hotcuppa!