Week 773 - Fictional Robots

[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

• John McKerrell:First laser cutting in a long time, I think it came out ok! #weeknotes
  

  

• Chris Huffee:A new board prototype in testing. Front design by @Snoof
  And just because, on the reverse of the board I’ve hidden eight fictional robots.
  #weeknotes

  

• Adrian McEwen:Looking forward to having Pat Link come to the @does_salon to tell us about the makerspace he set up in his school, and all the plastic recycling they get up to.https://events.doesliverpool.com/events/fa66960d-856a-4823-9037-5adb29caa847
  #makerspace #school #PreciousPlastic #recycling #Liverpool #weeknotes
• 🎉🎊🥂🥳 Introducing Our April 2026 Start Boost Members, Chris and Charlie 🥳🥂🎊🎉
  Find out more about them by clicking here
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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 30 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 01 April, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Linux User Group
Wednesday 01 April, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 01 April, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 02 April, 7:00pm-11:00pm	LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Thursday 02 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, CNC routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Saturday 04 April, 1:00pm-5:00pm	Introduction to 3D Printing workshop on the first Saturday of each month,  with an emphasis on the DoES Liverpool 3D printers. 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. Organizer Website

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: 407 open; 1742 closed; 6 updated this week

1 new issue:

• Fiona's lid is sticking

3 issues closed:

• Silicon sock on printer Bambi is worn
• 3d printer Bambi under extruding and making clicking noise
• Fill in CIC34 form for 2024-2025 year

Thanks JackiePease, johnmckerrell!