Week 752 - Bike Music, Dot Location, Machine Embroidery

[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!

Things of Note

• MCQN Ltd:How else would we test the microphone input to our latest @oshwassociation accredited board than @amcewen 's video of a classical conductor on the back of a trike riding through Liverpool on a friday night?https://mcqn.com/ibal234/
  https://certification.oshwa.org/uk000083.html#biketooter #oshw #weeknotes
• MCQN Ltd:Speakers, slides and PCBs. The latest fortnight-notes are out.https://mcqn.com/posts/weeks-1046-and-1047-slide-presentation-product-presentation/#weeknotes
• Adrian McEwen:Today in important @MCQN_Ltd and @museuminabox business, I am confirming the location of these dots. The green ones are in the right place; the red ones are in the wrong place, and that caused us no end of hassle with the last batch of NFC readers.#weeknotes
  

  

• Adrian McEwen:The only scary bit of this #FreeCADFriday is using the sheet metal workbench again (I had trouble getting it to unfold last time I tried, but that was *many* versions ago. Seems much nicer so far)Working on some packaging options for the @MCQN_Ltd My Bike's Got LED kits#weeknotes #ibal234 #OSHW
  

  

• DoES Liverpool:Dahab looks happy with this lovely star embroidery, produced during a machine embroidery induction with @Snoof.
  You can get a free induction for our embroidery machine Fred at any of our Maker Nights (every Thursday evening from 7pm-9:30pm) or Maker Day (second Saturday of every month from midday - 6pm - so this weekend!).#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 03 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 04 November, 6:30pm-9:30pm	Hack the Space Evening (Software)
Tuesday 04 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 05 November, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 06 November, 7:00pm-11:00pm	LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Thursday 06 November, 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.
Saturday 08 November, 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 November, 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://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: 411 open, 1691 closed

2 new issues:

• List of 3D printers on main DoES website is out of date:
• Ink spilt in pen drawer

Featured issue: PAT test all the "portable" appliances in the space. Can we move this on or close it?

5 issues closed:

• Ink spilt in pen drawer
• Add user Spanner74 to the DoES Group
• Tony stopped cutting part way through jobs
• Apply window film to lower two panes of internal windows
• Clean the windows in the kitchen

Thanks JackiePease, Spanner74, amcewen!