Week 764 – RayTracerChallenge, Space Quilt

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!

Things of Note

• michael:Another #weeknotes update on getting through the #raytracerchallenge in #ocaml – https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/raytracing_progress/
  • Adding groups, bounding boxes, and triangles
  • Adding 3D model support (using X3D rather than OBJ)
  • Tweaking it to let me make small animations
  • Using instruments to work out why it’s slow (or at least confirm my assumptions)

  

• michael:Some work #weeknotes:
  • I made a major update to my species Area Of Habitat library to try make it more generally usable
  • We have a new LIFE biodiversity metric paper out looking at how well it performs in real world case studies
  • I try catch up my STAR metric pipeline ready for the recent method updates

  https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/aoh_2.0/

• matthewcroughan: Got the Award Modular BIOS u-boot skin running on my #shiftphone8, thanks to CONFIG_BMP_24BPP=y[see original post for video]@danct12 created the skin at https://github.com/Danct12/u-boot/tree/awardmodularbios#weeknotes #mobilelinux #linuxmobile
  

• matthewcroughan: #emfcamp #weeknotes #emfcamp2026
  

  

• Adrian McEwen:Interested in data? In or near #Liverpool? The Civic Data Coop are holding a Festival of Data at the start of Febhttps://civicdatacooperative.com/festival-of-data/And as part of that they’re putting on a Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, compèred by yours truly, on the Friday evening

  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/civicdatacoopeerative/1953469

  #data #events #weeknotes

• Snoof: A wonderful time at #jodrellbank today, as they unveiled the Cosmic Threads collection Jake and I contributed our cup-and-string robot and tardigrade squares to. @huffeec did all the driving, took photos, and put up with a huge amount of nonsense 🙂 #weeknotes
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• Snoof:@huffeec for absolutely explicable reasons that will make sense to everyone, I’m sure, this is my (related) best birthday present… #weeknotes
  

  

• DoES Liverpool:Wirral MakeFest will be on Saturday 26th April this year, at Birkenhead Central Library. DoES Liverpool will be there.
  If you’d like your own stall then you need to apply by 1st February.
  Here’s the link to find out more and apply:
  https://wirralmakefest.org/call-for-makers-2026/
  #WeekNotes

  

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.

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: 415 open; 1715 closed; 11 updated this week

5 new issues:

• Tony is only cutting well in the bottom left corner
• Organise more hack the space days for tidying and cleaning
• Add notices to events space to ask users to tidy up
• Toilet light cord is broken
• Frame the Daily Post article about DoES Liverpool

Featured issue: Tony apparently not cutting square. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

• Tony is only cutting well in the bottom left corner
• Toilet light cord is broken

Thanks magman2112!