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!
A Winters Boost
It’s time for the next round of our Boost membership scheme. If you could use 6 months desk or workshop membership starting 1st April, then find out more and apply here:
DoES Liverpool Talks at Transition Cafe – Tuesday 10th February
“Speakers from DoES Liverpool will give an overview of their vision and some of the amazing creative green projects they are currently developing and delivering.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT
Soup, bread and a fruit crumble served from 6:45pm. This will be followed by the talks at 7:15pm”.
Events at DoES Liverpool
Check our events page at doesliverpool.com/events to find out what’s coming up. If you’re interested in a deep dive into laser cutting or 3D printing, then Andy or Terry might have this covered. Both available via Eventbrite:
Things of Note
- michael:Some belated #weeknotes on my #raytracerchallenge in #ocaml – I did some performance work to try speed up how it was rendering large amounts of unstructured triangels, and then undid that by making it easier to load yet more triangles by implementing STL file reading – which included the surprise that STL files often have colour information stashed in them via unofficial usage of an unused field!https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/performance_and_stl_files/
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 02 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Socialist Alternative discussion group |
| Tuesday 03 February, 6:30pm-9:30pm | Hack the Space Evening (Software) |
| Wednesday 04 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Linux User Group |
| Wednesday 04 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party |
| Wednesday 04 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Linux User Group |
| Thursday 05 February, 7:00pm-11:00pm | LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group) |
| Thursday 05 February, 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 06 February, 7:30pm-11:30pm | PVTV Fringe Flicks |
| Saturday 07 February, 1:00pm-5:00pm | An Introduction to 3D Printing by Andy from 3D Primo. Tickets available via EventBrite |
| Sunday 08 February, 2:00pm-5:00pm |
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: |
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.
Issue counts: 412 open; 1723 closed; 19 updated this week
5 new issues:
- Cover USB lead from Fiona to her PC
- Please add me to the Doesliverpool organization
- Sink in not accessible toilet is blocked
- Scissors nicked
- Wirral MakeFest – Saturday 25th April 2026 – DoES Liverpool Stand
Featured issue: Y-axis slip on Prints Adam. Can we move this on or close it?
8 issues closed:
- Please add me to the Doesliverpool organization
- Damage to rubber cover of print head on 3D printer Marcus
- Commission new laser cutter.
- Update printers page to reflect change in main space
- 3D printer Marcus sticking
- Get our ducks in a row for the AV system in the Events Room
- Sonoff 4-way failed its PAT test
- Sophia has excessive leakage current
Thanks GiomLyons, JackiePease, magman2112, johnmckerrell, amcewen!
