Week 756 - The Cost of Doing Epic

[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!

Xmas Party Save the Date - Friday 12th December

Entertainment plans for the Event Space are going well - please tell Terry or Neil if you want to find out more or "do a turn".  See Neil's post here for more details.

Things of Note

• Adrian McEwen:Updating the @DoESLiverpool "Cost of Doing Epic" poster, so I've fired up our big poster printer!As you can see, the red bar of expenses is still higher than the green bar of income 💔 They're closer than last time I ran it, but still the wrong way round.It hasn't printed the URL at the bottom yet, which points to ways people can help: https://doesliverpool.com/help/#weeknotes
  

  

• Adrian McEwen:Posters printed out and installed in @DoESLiverpool - one in the Events Space and one in the kitchen.There's a version online if anyone wants to dig into the details.tl;dr - we need more folk in using the space or we'll cease to exist. Tell all your #Liverpool friends who need a #coworking or #makerspace to come join!#weeknotes
  

  

• Adrian McEwen:Today's #FreeCADFriday task, working out how to modify STLs so I can try 3D printing a lens cap for this second-hand lens, for my build of one of @janamarie's ligrasThere'll be a bit of #OpenSCAD later on too, to tweak the mount for the other end of the lens, but that'll be trivial as it's all wonderfully documented.#weeknotes
  

  

• Adrian McEwen:Gave up on the STL editing as it wasn't too complicated a design, and just modelled it from scratch insteadIt's on the printer printing as I type.#weeknotes #FreeCADFriday
  

  

• Jackie Pease:Printing some registration tabs for multicolour linoprinting (printables.com/model/770479-printmaking-registration-pins/files) and looking for other ways in which modern tech might be useful in this more traditional craft.
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• MCQN Ltd:Our latest fortnight-notes went out earlier in the week: the end of the latest batch of @museuminabox, some finished packaging for My Bike's Got LED and more https://mcqn.com/posts/weeks-1050-and-1051-smoke-me-a-kipper/#weeknotes #IndieMfg

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 01 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 02 December, 6:30pm-9:30pm	Hack the Space Evening (Software)
Tuesday 02 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 03 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 04 December, 7:00pm-11:00pm	LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Thursday 04 December, 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 05 December, 6:00pm-9:00pm	Safe Space/Cracked Mirror
Saturday 06 December, 1:00pm-5:00pm	Introduction to 3D Printing workshop The following topics will be covered: Basic components and operation of a filament 3D printer Filament materials Apps for creating and editing 3D models Optimising designs for print Useful sites for downloading existing models Post-print and complementary processes Tips, tricks and common problems The course assumes general computer skills, and experience with some forms of computer graphics is very helpful. Attendees will require their own laptop and an SD card for transferring files to the 3D printer. By the end of the course, attendees will be able to create their own basic designs and use the 3D printers at DoES Liverpool. View Organizer Website
Sunday 07 December, 1:00pm-3:00pm	Community Meeting Come along and have your say in how DoES Liverpool is run. Everyone welcome. You can find the latest published meeting minutes here

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: 413 open, 1699 closed

1 new issue:

• Make our finances more visible by publishing charts more regularly.

Featured issue: Doorbot 4 not responding to fobs. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

• Outside doorbot has stopped working

Thanks amcewen!