Week 736 - NixOS, FreeCAD Door Handle Repairs

[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!

Paid Workshops

It was great to see so many visitors to our Event Space for Komal's "Sari Forest" exhibition and workshops. Here she is, with some of the saris:

You can take a look at our events page here to see what else is coming up (anyone fancy Sashiko embroidery?).

Please get in touch if you’re organising a workshop or other event here, and we’ll do our best to help publicise it for you.

Things of Note

• birkenhack:Completely random and impromptu #NixOS hack session at Birkenhack yesterday#birkenheadisthenewberlin #birkenhack #weeknotes
  

  

• DoES Liverpool:Introducing our July 2025 Start Boost Members - Laura and Miche - DoES Liverpool
  https://doesliverpool.com/co-working/introducing-our-july-2025-start-boost-members-laura-and-miche/
  #WeekNotes
• MCQN Ltd:More bubbles, some fluid web design, a @museuminabox newsletter, and a trip to @lpoolmakefestWeek 1031 - Bubbles and Fluid (Design)
  https://mcqn.com/posts/bubbles-and-fluid/
  #weeknotes
• Adrian McEwen:Broke out the calipers for a quick bit of #FreeCADFriday action. Modelled a replacement plastic part for the @DoESLiverpool events room door handle. It's now printing on the 3D printer.The temporary old-bike-inner-tube replacement that @huffeec and I installed at the weekend is working surprisingly well, but doesn't look quite as nice 🤣
  #weeknotes #repair #3DPrinting

  

  

• Birkenhack:A new and nameless inspector cat came to look at, and examine our working environment at #birkenhack, do you think she likes it?#birkenheadisthenewberlin #weeknotes #caturday #bringyourcattoworkday #catsofmastodon #cats
  

  

  

  

  

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 14 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm	7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 15 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm	XR Liverpool
Wednesday 16 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 17 July, 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, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Friday 18 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Fight Racism
Sunday 20 July, 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: 430 open, 1628 closed

1 new issue:

• Set up mobilizon as a meetup.com alternative

Featured issue: Rear fire escape shutter is dysfunctional, does not close.. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

• Marcus printing around 50mm above bed height
• Liverpool MakeFest - Saturday 5th July 2025 - DoES Liverpool Stand

Thanks huffeec, JackiePease!