Week 620 - Hack the Space Day

[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

• Jackie Pease: Heat pressed soft plastic mini banner made at ideas session with Anne-Marie Jane and Arthur for potential Plastic Tactics workshops
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• @al...@bobiverse.social: We are building #Blender on #NixOS *on* the OnePlus 6 phone 🤯 #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/P5vUTrfLQS
  
  
• @al...@bobiverse.social: Ok ok ok. I am impressed. I am more than impressed. @matthew...@defenestrate.it has Blender running on Mobile NixOS on this OnePlus phone. I am literally seeing a new evolution of mobile devices in front of me. #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/OvDk2n1aT1
  
  
• @al...@bobiverse.social: Little demo showing how I've pulled the lovely WizIO Arduino Simulator into PlatformIO so I can do some development work against a Quectel modem EVK with #TinyGSM #weeknotes WizIOyoutube.com/watch?v=VAjfIP…
• @al...@bobiverse.social: chris huffee @huf...@does.social @matthew...@defenestrate.it Adrian McEwen @amc...@mastodon.me.uk Oh. My. God. The wonders of OpenSource and the DoES Liverpool community #weeknotes
• @al...@bobiverse.social: It seems I’ve drunk - a little - of the #Nix koolaid Lee Hughes❄️❄️❄️NIX❄️S Kiss me , I'm reproducable! @matthew...@defenestrate.it #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/2JyX7uteDW
  
  
• DoES Liverpool: A good Hack the Space Day.
  We met Axel who is on a tour of maker spaces in the UK, Joe fixed the First Aid boxes to walls, Mike sawed wood for French cleats, and Robotorium and chris huffee @huf...@does.social got 3d printer Prints Adam back into action.
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• DoES Liverpool: Chris T was very happy with the shelves he and Mike made for electronic testing equipment.
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Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 24 April, 9:00am-5:30pm	Fearless Academy
Monday 24 April, 7:00pm-9:00pm	7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 26 April, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Etsy Meet Up
Thursday 27 April, 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 28 April, 2:00pm-10:00pm	Open Hardware Summit Watch Party

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: 387 open, 1425 closed

12 new issues:

• Clear out and organise the sharps drawer
• Ironing pad missing from fibre arts room
• Tony y-axis toothed belt broken
• Rework power plug/sockets for Sheila
• Finish buiilding the protective conductor current test box
• Embroidery machine Fred is very tangled and stuck
• Get new maintenance tank for Epson Stylus Pro 9800
• Tony Crashing When Fan is turned off or on
• DoESLiverpool Ebay sales bin
• Commission the Form2 formlabs 3D printers
• Add a page for Sheila on the wiki
• Tony out of square

Featured issue: The laser cut knob on Sheila's vertical adjustment mechanism is broken. Can we move this on or close it?

11 issues closed:

• Embroidery machine Fred is very tangled and stuck
• Tony out of square
• guide for small laser
• Booking Fred 12th April
• Claire vacuum former has failed its PAT test
• Tony moving fine but not firing the laser
• Prints Adam hot bed not heating up
• Tony stopping part way through jobs when cutting.
• Save the focus-ruler files for Tony and Sheila somewhere-safe
• Gerald has some earthing/shock issues that need resolving
• Construct new recycling bin boxes

Thanks Spikyflower, amcewen, magman2112!