Week 762 - Wall of Heroes, BBC Micro

[Jackie Pease]

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!

Hack the Space Day - Saturday 17th January 10am - 6pm

This Saturday is our dedicated Hack the Space day, focused on fixing and improving the things that make the space work better for all of us.

Please think about what needs doing e.g. broken tools, upgrades, layout issues, maintenance jobs, tidying, anything that’s been annoying you. Chris H has cleared a space on the notice board where we can add our ideas, or get in touch with one of the organisers. If you want to do something that needs parts or extra help, message an organiser so we can plan it in.

And be there on the day if you can. The more people helping, the more we’ll get done!

Future-gazing - Tuesday 20th January 2026 6pm

And following on from that, we've got our Future-gazing event on the next Tuesday. Hold the date and bring your thinking about what you'd like to see from DoES in the coming years, ways that we can improve how the space runs, and thoughts on how to make it (financially and otherwise) sustainable.

Things of Note

• michael:Trying to break up my work #weeknotes a little:
  Adding dynamic reprojection of geospatial data within an expression in Yirgacheffe: https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/automatic-reprojection-with-yirgacheffe/
  Finding a way to use Snakemake on a data-pipeline without going all in on the integration it expects you to do: https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/testing-out-snakemake-incrementally/
• Chris Huffee:First of the laser etched Wall of Heroes tiles for @DoESLiverpool is everyone's hero @concretedog
  If you missed the initial fundraiser and would like to contribute and be added to the wall email
  he...@doesliverpool.com
  #weeknotes

  

• John McKerrell:OH in @DoESLiverpool : “Do you mean data bits or fluffy bits?” #weeknotes
  

  

• John McKerrell:I was quite excited when the first BBC Micro I turned on yesterday seemed to largely work (and the monitor!) I think this message means it doesn’t have a functional BASIC ROM chip? The second Micro just beeped continuously and the Master didn’t seem to do anything. #BBCMicro #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.

Monday 12 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 13 January, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 15 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.
Friday 16 January, 6:00pm-9:00pm	Safe Space Merseyside
Saturday 17 January, 10:00am-5:00pm	Hack the Space Day (see above)
Sunday 18 January, 11:00am-3:00pm	Repair Café

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; 1712 closed; 6 updated this week

No new issues

Featured issue: Dispose of paint tins. Can we move this on or close it?

5 issues closed:

• More people turned up for Maker Night tonight...
• Toilet seat in more accessible toilet is loose
• Apply for Hardship Relief for business rates
• Cordless phone is showing a battery warning
• Rear fire escape shutter is dysfunctional, does not close.

Thanks johnmckerrell!