Week 735 - MakeFest, Paid Workshops

[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

Neil has set up an events page on our website, which has details of workshops being run at DoES Liverpool. You can take a look here.

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.

Liverpool MakeFest

This was one of the best-attended ever, Thanks to everyone who took part, and to the organisers. If you've got any photos from the day that you don't mind being used on our website or socials then please send them to Neil (or post them on Mastodon and tag with #WeekNotes). Here's a few to be getting on with:

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Mike's VLG (very large rug) - one of the highlights of the event

A rare visit from long-time DoES Liverpool friend, Ildi, showing off her braiding abilities

 

Terry with his mechanical goose

 

Adrian at the mcqn table

 

Andy at his Great Wave printing station, holding up a 3d-printed map of Japan

 

Zarino with pen plotter

 

Jake with Lord Mayor Barbara

 

Jake showing visitors how to use a braiding loom

 

Jackie with Lord Mayor Barbara

 

Julian watching Komal try out the VR set up

Things of Note

• MCQN Ltd:We've been teasing it for a while, but @bubblino has joined the #Fediverse 🎉If you mention/follow/boost/favourite any posts from him, us, @museuminabox or @DoESLiverpool then he'll fill the office with actual bubbles!We've spun up a #PeerTube instance and, for a while at least, we're livestreaming it so you can see him in action:
  https://video.mcqn.com/w/nabdBYxYGg1gR6Q4Q3ueB6?autoplay=1
  (There's about a half-minute delay on the bubbles showing up on the video)
  #Bubbles #ibal12 #weeknotes #Livestreaming
• MCQN Ltd:Week 1030 - Whirr, sputtle, pop!News this week of a Raspberry Pi camera mounting, @bubblino an Internet-connected device that blows bubbles and software updates to make your @museuminabox life easier.https://mcqn.com/posts/week-1030-whirr-sputtle-pop/
  #weeknotes #GLAM
• Adrian McEwen:Down in the Baltic Triangle for a morning of talks about design at Rise and Design#weeknotes #design #Liverpool

  

• MCQN Ltd:We're at Liverpool Central Library all day today for @lpoolmakefest, showing off @museuminabox, My Bike's Got LED, and @bubblinoIf you boost this post you'll cover @amcewen in bubbles!#Liverpool #maker #weeknotes

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 07 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm	7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 09 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 10 July, 9:00am-6:00pm	Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 10 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.
Saturday 12 July, 12:00am-6:00pm	Maker Day 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.
Appearance Sunday 13 July, 2:00pm-5:00pm	Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop) 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! Two rules: 1. No Objectives – this is an aimless and wandering session. 2. Bring Your Own Initiative – this is an active session and we’ll help you get creative. Every two weeks on a Sunday afternoon, between 2pm and 5pm. 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: 431 open, 1627 closed

3 new issues:

• Events room door needs a new handle
• Gerald not cutting through materials even when running very slowly
• Doorbot 5 not working

Featured issue: Small holes in floor by cable shelves. Can we move this on or close it?

4 issues closed:

• Doorbot 5 not working
• Calendar is missing from new website
• Make lanyard badges for Liverpool MakeFest
• Events room fridge is broken

Thanks amcewen, JackiePease!