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!
Liverpool MakeFest
Things of Note
- Adrian McEwen:Brought an old spare PC power supply in to fix the Liverbird in @DoESLiverpool #weeknotes #MaintenanceMonday [Ed: see original post for video]
- Adrian McEwen:Finally got round to installing #meshcore on my T1000-e that I’d been trying #meshtastic on.Let’s see if I can reach @willrobinson over in N Wales#Liverpool #Wales #weeknotes
- Birkenhack:Our Chief Mouser, reporting for duty at #Birkenhack on Wednesday for Tinker Night. Her name is Sushi! #weeknotes [Ed: See original post for video]
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 03 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Socialist Alternative discussion group |
| Tuesday 04 August, 6:30pm-9:30pm | Hack the Space Evening (Software) |
| Wednesday 05 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party |
| Wednesday 05 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Linux User Group |
| Thursday 06 August, 7:00pm-11:00pm | LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group) |
| Thursday 06 August, 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 07 August, 5:30pm-10:00pm | Trans Masc Social |
| Saturday 08 August, 12:00pm-6:00pm | Maker Day Our free 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 09 August, 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 |
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: 428 open; 1761 closed; 22 updated this week
8 new issues:
- Could I please be given the ability to close issues etc
- Mention the community on the People wiki page
- Outward facing equipment list contains wishlist items
- 3D printer Eileen underextruding filament
- 3D Printer Bambi – filament is underextruded and not sticking to the print bed.
- FIONA OUT OF ORDER
- Air pipe Fiona
- A drive in the Samba server has failed
Featured issue: Tony apparently not cutting square. Can we move this on or close it?
6 issues closed:
- Power supply has failed on the Liverbird
- Toilet cistern in accessible toilet not filling correctly.
- Leak from the cistern in the accessible toilet
- Right-hand electrical socket by the fridge in the events space isn’t working
- Wirral MakeFest – Saturday 25th April 2026 – DoES Liverpool Stand
- Kettle switch regularly failing
Thanks amcewen, commitsBySarah, mdales!
