Week 739 - National Coworking Day, New Boost Membership Round

[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

National Coworking Day

To celebrate National Coworking Day, we're opening our doors for a completely free day of coworking at DoES Liverpool, this Friday, 8th August. We'd love to see you there - more details here.

A Birthday Boost

Please help us spread the word!
If you, or any of your friends, could do with a Boost to get a new idea off the ground (or even just to keep going…), then take a look at our Boost scheme – 6 months free desk or workshop membership here at DoES Liverpool, conveniently situated near the centre of the city. Join our innovative community!
It’s a draw so everyone has an equal chance. Find out more and apply for Boost Membership here

Things of Note

• Museum in a Box:The Royal Mint Museum has one of the largest fleets of Museums in Boxes - 76; and they're the most travelled. They've sent them out to over 1600 care homes all across the UK over the past four years, racking up nearly 25,000 boops!This #MaintenanceMonday @amcewen is working through a bunch of them that have come back to HQ for some TLC and repair work
  #weeknotes #GLAM #repair

  

  

  

• Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ ಎನ್:Weekly Notes 30/2025 | Thejesh GNhttps://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/25/weekly-notes-30-2025/
  #weeknotes #weeklynotes
• Jackie Pease:This looks as though it might interest some of the crochet geeks @DoESLiverpool https://www.grannylifecrochet.com/home
  #WeekNotes #GrannyLifeCrochet
• Adrian McEwen:A bit of #FreeCADFriday to add a couple of screws to fasten the two halves of the audio-level-shifter case (because my initial friction-fit pegs didn't handle the vibration of being mounted on a bike very well)Just checking over clearances before sticking it on the 3D printer
  #CAD #weeknotes #3Dprinting #OSHW

  

• Jackie Pease:Dilute Hitomezashi in crochet cotton on a laser cut isometric grid (based on Katherine Seaton paper).I did quite a lot of these on small triangles, and not knowing how they would turn out in advance was a good feature.
  When my first attempt at a larger hexagon didn't work, I wrote a p5 program to show me what the output would be before I stitched it (I used the same values for each orientation).
  I also had a go at machine embroidering, but it's going to need more work!
  #WeekNotes

  

  

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 04 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm	7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 05 August, 6:30pm-9:30pm	Hack the Space Evening (Software)
Wednesday 06 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 07 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 08 August, 9:30am-5:30pm	Free Coworking! To celebrate National Coworking Day, we're opening our doors for a completely free day of coworking at DoES Liverpool, this Friday, 8th August. We'd love to see you there - more details here.
Saturday 09 August, 12:00am-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 10 August, 12:00am-4:00pm	Do you fancy a chill, chatty Sunday afternoon sewing a soft toy by hand? Choose from a rat, a raccoon or a fox and join us at DoES Liverpool from noon till four pm on Sunday the 10th of August! £35 with all materials provided, and we can talk about design, construction and lasers as much as you like – including which amenities are available to use right here at DoES. Coffee and tea are free, and you’re very welcome to bring whatever snacks you’d like. More details and link to book
Sunday 10 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 http://twitter.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: 437 open, 1629 closed

4 new issues:

• motor voltage error on vinyl cutter on power up
• Sheila cuts out at the right hand side of the bed
• Air pipe to laser head - Gerald
• The right hand window in the event space is difficult to close

Featured issue: Tony not engraving well. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed