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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/
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New delivery! That should keep the Museum in a Box production line going for a few batches...
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Ordering another thousand speakers for @museuminabox. And a few additional speaker samples for R&D on a couple of project ideas.
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Is #MaintenanceMonday a thing? Just been fixing up the #IndieMfg map as I'm sharing the research into local supply chains we did a while back at @MCQN_Ltd and for some reason umap had forgotten the URLs for dynamically loading the OpenStreetMap data.
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Super interesting insight into how you scale up manufacturing, at the this-is-how-you-describe-steps-to-your-manufacturing-partner level, in the first talk at #OSHcamp
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Blog All Dog-eared Pages - my notes from reading Christopher Frayling's "On Craftsmanship towards a new Bauhaus"
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The two sides of @MCQN_Ltd work today: @huffeec is doing more testing of the TEM cell while @amcewen boxes up the latest @museuminabox orders #weeknotes #IndieMfg #ibal151 #electronics #hardware
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Thinking about it, the bowling was an accidental #LocalManufacturing story.
Vinny, one of our group, works at Drakes here in Liverpool - one of three manufacturers in the world of those bowling balls; and the resin used to make them is only made in *one* place in the world, which is in St. Helens.
Both those locations plus the place we were playing lie within an 8 mile radius.
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Found some time to dig into why my embedded umap wasn't working on the Indie Manufacturing website.
Turns out it was a certificate issue. Now fixed. Yay!
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Lighting up the FACT Metroscopes; @jackie_pease's LED comet; battery charging debugging and a smidge of NFC - @huffeec writing the three-#weeknotes this week.
Weeks 912, 913 and 914 - Drop all the plates
https://mcqn.com/posts/weeks-912-913-914-drop-all-the-plates/
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It would be good to capture my current thinking about all of this.
Re-reading http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thinking/is_the_maker_movement_a_movement.html I think that captures my critique of Arts and Crafts.
And https://indie.mcqn.com/blog/2016/11/27/a-brief-critique-of-ship-bits-not-atoms.html grasps at the trade-offs between individual craft and mass manufacture.
But there's something of a new Mittelstand in scale, combined with co-operative and collective ownership that's missing from them both.
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Exciting times in the @MCQN_Ltd corner of @DoESLiverpool today.
All the bits for us to build the test V2 boards of My Bike's Got LED are here
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New boards go to production, and Chris shares some @kicad tips. This week's #weeknotes: Week 904 - Always look on the bright side of life…
https://mcqn.com/posts/week-904-always-look-on-the-bright-side/
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Weeks 895-896 - Bells, Bikes and Lots of LEDs
https://mcqn.com/posts/weeks-895-896-Bells-Bikes-and-Lots-of-LEDs/
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Hello 👋
An #introduction. We are #MCQN_Ltd, an #IndieMfg company in #Liverpool.
We make (and sell) gentle, Internet-connected objects, and help others build their #embedded and #IoT projects. So expect anything from Internet-connected bubble machines to sensors on wave-energy #prototypes.
We're strong believers in #OpenSource; both #firmware and #electronics/#PCB.
And we work with many #microcontrollers including #ESP32 #ESP8266 #Arduino and #RaspberryPi.
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Got my @fosdem talk written and recorded. It's ended up part-manifesto-for-#OSHW, part-how-to-for-#IndieMfg. Join me on 7th Feb to watch it and join the discussion afterwards https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/indie_mnf/ #weeknotes
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Managed to get my @fosdem talk proposal in on time, hoping to share my journey in making open hardware as an indie manufacturer. Fingers crossed #weeknotes #ibal223 #IndieMfg
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@mdales Nice to see you back in the shop. And interested in your quest for sustainable wood options. Andy Goodwin did a bit of digging into sustainable plywood during the #IndieMfg project and it's a bit of a nightmare, but more of us worrying about it and sharing info is what's going to get us out the other side of that. And I /think/ it'll be easier with solid wood, as there are fewer steps between tree and you. Guess we'll find out 😄