Week 797 - Party, Little Printer, U-Boot

[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!

Liverpool MakeFest 2026

We had a great time at the rebooted Liverpool MakeFest this year, held in the Tapestry Building, with support from the LNF fund of our local Brownlow Hill councillors, Heather and Tom, and our landlord Jason (plus Jennie and Baylee). Thanks to organisers, volunteers and everyone who came along. If you've got any good photos, then please send them in (to he...@doesliverpool.com) or post to Mastodon, with hashtag #WeekNotes.

MakeFest After Party / DoES 15th Birthday Party

MakeFest was followed by the usual After Party, combined with another opportunity to celebrate DoES' 15th Birthday Party - lots of cake (thanks Laura J and John C) and Karaoke. Here's a few photos from Neil, but again, please feel free to send more.

    

Things of Note

• Adrian McEwen:Now there's a face I haven't seen in a while#weeknotes #LittlePrinter #RetroIoT
  

  

• matthewcroughan: Ported U-Boot with EFI support to the Unihertz Jelly Star tonight, NixOS next. Nix Brick for scale!#weeknotes #nixos #postmarketos #uboot #mainline
  

  

  

  

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 14 September, 6:00pm-8:00pm	Philosophy in Pubs
Monday 14 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 15 September, 6:30pm-9:00pm	Safe Space Merseyside
Wednesday 16 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 17 September, 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 19 September, 9:00am-5:00pm	Liverpool RCP
Sunday 20 September, 11:00am-3:00pm	Repair Café

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: 425 open; 1784 closed; 13 updated this week

2 new issues:

• Update (and start using) the "DoES Notice of Disposal" signs
• Coffee machine not switching itself off after being left for a few hours

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

5 issues closed:

• Toilet seat in more accessible toilet is like a gameshow challenge
• Buy more 300mm sq plywood sheets
• Order new ink for the eufyMake printer
• Reprint the top section of the DoES Tower
• Install protector on wall below hand driers.

Thanks commitsBySarah, huffeec, JackiePease, magman2112!