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Creativity Month, and the Need for Cross-Pollination

This past month, we’ve been involved in DCAL’s Creativity Month, in association with Creativity NI. This allowed us to experiment with ways to bring the general maker and creative community together, through our Makers Meetup programme (which we’ll be continuing as a basic social event), the Bring and Buy sale (that was decimated by unprecedented weather), and […]

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Mad March Town Hall

Monday March 25th @ 1900 in the Event Space It’s that time again, where democracy (otherwise known as “He who shows up, wins”) reigns supreme. We’ll be doing the usual financial reporting, strategic reporting, etc, but this time round, we really want to encourage the membership to raise any issues they’re having with the space, […]

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Farset Bring & Buy Sale

On Saturday 23rd March, Farset Labs are having our first ever Bring and Buy Sale! It’s a great chance to pass on those things you can’t bring yourself to get rid of, or to grab something exciting for a bit of a bargain. It’s also an opportunity for any creative types who’d like to grab […]

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DIY Guitar Pedal Workshop

As part of Creativity Month, we have invited the _maker collective up from Dublin to walk attendees through how to build a fuzz distortion pedal from start to finish on Saturday the 30th of March. The workshops are aimed at beginners to D.I.Y. electronics and we cover all the essential skills that you will allow […]

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Coder Dojo @ Weavers Court

UPDATE: This post is now very old and is possibly out of date, see here for the latest CoderDojo Updates   Farset Labs is playing host to the Weavers Court CoderDojo, kicking things off with a ‘soft launch’ next Thursday the 21st from 17:30-20:00. With mentors (and kids) hopefully coming from all over the park […]

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Outreach at Farset Labs

This is going to sound old hat, but here at Farset, we’re all about cultivating an environment where the next generation of technologists can come into their own, but as the old saying goes, to teach is to learn twice. That’s why we are always encouraging not only peer-teaching within the space and at Farset […]

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Makers’ Meetup

It’s time to get out of the space and relax for a change. Farset Labs in association with the Department of Culture, Arts, and Leisure’s “Culture Month” are inviting makers, breakers, designers, fashionistas, hackers, painters, sculptors, teachers, and any other kind of practical creative to just ‘hang out’, and encourage serendipity.

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Club Mate Buy In

Farset Labs is proud to announce that we will be the first people to bring the amazing Club Mate caffineated soft-drink to the hallowed shores of Northern Ireland. This low-impact, all natural energy drink is renowned within hacker-culture across the globe (having powered the author through a 76 hour straight volunteer-fest at The Next HOPE without any […]