Week 729 - #MathPad, Asteroid Printing, Biscuits

[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!

Hack the Space Day and Community Meeting – Sunday 1st June

Our next Hack the Space day and Community meeting is this Sunday 1st June. Please come along for either or both if you can!

Space hacking is planned to start at 10am with the community meeting from 1pm to 3pm.

You can join the community meeting remotely via this link: https://ca.meet.coop/b/adr-ctr-trg.

• You can see the agenda and latest minutes here: https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/wiki/Community-Meeting-Minutes

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Things of Note

• Alex:
  Awesome work this. One of the cool people working out of @DoESLiverpool#weeknotes
   
  @SummaCogni

 Aaand we're live on @crowd_supply https://crowdsupply.com/summa-cogni/mathpad

#Mathpad is the worlds first mathematical keypad for students and professionals.

• Chris Huffee:The feeling when there's only 30cm of fillament left on the roll at the end of the job, but your Bowden tube is 50cm long and yet you managed to save the print by loading another spool mid print and shunting plastic.
  #weeknotes

  

• MCQN Ltd:Kicking off another round of weeknotes now that we're 1024 weeks old! Featuring LEDs, bikes, @museuminabox, 3D scanning, and marketing.Week 1024 - a Kiloweek of MCQNhttps://mcqn.com/posts/week-1024-kiloweek-of-mcqn/
  #weeknotes #ESP32 #LED #photogrammetry #3Dscanning #marketing
• Museum in a Box:Much fun in the office this afternoon poking around this online asteroid tracker from NASA.Looking at the 3D visualisations of the asteroids and wondering if we can 3D print them and build a Museum in a Box asteroids collection...https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/home
  h/t @amberfirefly for alerting us to it!
  #NASA #asteroids #NotTheComputerGame #weeknotes
• Adrian McEwen:Whatever event was on upstairs from @DoESLiverpool today massively over-catered their bourbon cream order.We did discuss laser-etching or otherwise machining them, but settled for building a small wall.Wondering if I can get away with calling this a #mayke 🤣
  #weeknotes #BiscuitEngineering

  

• Adrian McEwen:Today in @oshwassociation #OHS2025 prep: how close to a PCB can you place an NFC sticker and still have it work.Thanks to mine and @huffeec's experiments, it seems a 3mm gap (filled with plywood if desired) is okay 😀#weeknotes
• Chris Huffee:My tiny 3d printed bike's got led.
  A little something extra for the @MCQN_Ltd table at @oshwassociation #ohs2025#weeknotes #bananaforscale

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 26 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm	7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 28 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 29 May, 10:00am-7:00pm	Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 2;9 May, 7:00pm9:30pm	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 30 May, 6:00pm-11:00pm	stfrfi - trans rights and Cuba
Sunday 01 June, 10:00am-1:00pm	Hack the Space Day Come along and work on anything that will make our space better e.g. putting together new work benches for the machine room, replacing the tables in the corner by the laser cutter room, PAT testing …
Sunday 01 June, 1:00pm-3:00pm	Community Meeting 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: 426 open, 1618 closed

1 new issue:

• New laptops - decommission old ones

Featured issue: Networking in laser room is poor. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

• Octopi not working for 3D printer Marcus
• Tidy up the fibre arts room

Thanks huffeec, Robotorium!