Week 798 - Boops and Bushing

[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

• michael: Work #weeknotes time:
  https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/2026-09-14/
• Moving to tessera v2 for habitat work, and initial Madagascar results
• Failing to generate a LIFE map due to slight code rot
• Liverpool Makefest 2026 (which I was a co-organiser of) was a success!
• Museum in a Box: We were out at @lpoolmakefest yesterday, a fun-packed day of all manner of #maker activities and demos, held at @DoESLiverpoolWe had 193 boops across the day, the top five objects were:1. @defnetmedia's melting snowman
  2. a 3D-printed heart from @huffeec's 3D-printing school course collection
  3. a 3D print of the British Museum's Hoa Hakananai'a
  4. the Natural History Museum's electron microscopy 3D scan of a blowfly head
  5. a postcard of a carpenter frog
  #weeknotes #Liverpool #3DPrinting

  

• matthewcroughan: I may have accidentally booped a #NixOS onto a Jelly Star thanks to all the information available on the #postmarketos wiki. What do you think of that, Clippy?#weeknotes
• Adrian McEwen: A bit of #FreeCADFriday action this week as the next step in my aerial-as-mounting-pole plans.Designed a little bushing to clip round the top of the antenna so the GoPro clamp I've got will clamp round it successfully. Then 3D printed it in TPU#BikeTooter #weeknotes #3DPrinting
  

  

  

• Harley McShee: Working on making stamps using the EufyMake yesterday with Jackie. First proper day in DoES!
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• DoESLiverpool: Two out of many repairs at this month's Repair Café: vacuum cleaner attachment unstuck for Sandra, and LCD replaced on a 2008 Fuji F31FD Camera for Karen. Repair Café is on the third Sunday of every month, from 11am - 3pm.
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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 21 September, 6:00pm-8:00pm	Philosophy in Pubs
Monday 21 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 22 September, 6:30pm-9:30pm	Fight Racism
Wednesday 23 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Safe Space Liverpool
Wednesday 23 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 24 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.
Thursday 24 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Spirit Level
Friday 25 September, 7:30pm-10:30pm	PVTV Fringe Flicks
Sunday 27 September, 4:00pm-8:00pm	Liverpool Horror Book Club

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; 1 updated this week

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Featured issue: Dispose of paint tins. Can we move this on or close it?

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