Week 789 – Repair Cafe Fixes, EufyMake, mixxx

[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! The easiest way is to post on Mastodon - if we follow you there, just add #weeknotes to any post you want included. If you’re not on Mastodon but would like to be, chat to one of the organisers and we’ll help you get started. And of course, you can always just send us an email!

Things of Note

• Jackie Pease:The Holy Pen of Antioch, sacred talisman of a pub quiz team I'm a member of. Its magic powers appeared to be blocked, so I took it to the monthly Repair Café at DoES Liverpool. There Mike Rush reverently cleaned out some ink from a previous refill that had leaked, hence restoring the Holy Pen's previous awesomeness.
  (Disclaimer: there is no evidence that any pen has supernatural abilities) #WeekNotes

  

• matthewcroughan: Running the #mixxx DJ software on a OnePlus 6 at the @birkenhack village! It is running @nixos_org, using #phosh as a display manager. #emfcamp #emf2026 #emfcamp2026 #weeknotes #birkenheadisthenewberlin [Ed: See original post for video]
  
  
• DoES Liverpool: A happy customer collecting her toy pram at the monthly Repair Café here at DoES Liverpool. Pram repaired by Siobhan. #WeekNotes

  

• DoES Liverpool: Two lovely clocks brought in to our monthly Repair Café by Rebecca, a regular visitor. Mike R helped her revive them by changing the batteries, cleaning the contacts and refitting the hands. Rebecca is delighted! #WeekNotes
  

  

• DoES Liverpool: Photos sent in by Kristina of just some of the lovely gifts she's made recently using our #eufymakeE1 UV texture printer Vivi. Great to see all the textures she's been able to add to her prints. #eufymakeuvprinter#makerspace#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 20 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 21 July, 6:30pm-9:00pm	Safe Space Merseyside
Wednesday 22 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 22 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Safe Space Liverpool
Thursday 23 July, 6:00pm-8:00pm	Arts Emergency
Thursday 23 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, CNC routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Friday 24 July, 5:30pm-9:00pm	Keira Leigh Network

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: 422 open; 1755 closed; 2 updated this week

2 new issues:

• Commission new (to us) sewing machine
• Add pull handle to rear fire door

Featured issue: Door handle of Room 29 is wobbly. Can we move this on or close it?

No issues closed