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Welcome Evorack to The Space

Farset Labs would like to introduce our latest corporate member, Evorack! Owned and operated by Belfast firm ABPNI Computer Solutions Ltd, and run by our own member Jonny Tripathy (don’t worry, he’s still paying membership as well!), Evorack provides Linux and Windows virtual server hosting solutions based on the open source Xen Hypervisor platform. In […]

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Raspberry Jam: So good we’re going to *preserve* it in our calendar

Friday night saw the Event Space in Farset Labs packed with eager attendees to Northern Ireland’s first ever Raspberry Jam. Raspberry Jam is a rapidly growing global network of Raspberry Pi users that regularly meet and, following the success of Friday’s Jam, Farset Labs is pleased to announce that the event will be joining our […]

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Raspberry Jam and Generation Innovation

Generation Innovation Last Night, we were invited to join NISP and a range of other sponsoring agencies to help out at the Generation Innovation event in the Titanic Building, which is a mentor-ship and networking programme for the Next Generation of Northern Irish Entrepreneurship. This event was not only an awful lot of fun for […]

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You did it! Our 3D printer is in the post!

Our long and exciting Sponsume campaign is finally over, and there is evidently plenty of support for a 3D printer within the space – we raised over £100 extra by the time the fundraiser was finished. In the time that it ran, we saw very evident spikes and patterns, which coincided nicely with various announcements and […]

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Farset Labs’ Legal Encounter

UPDATED: The original letters sent to Farset Labs have been linked to throughout the article for context and transparency. Further questions will be answered via email at admin@farsetlabs.org.uk Farset Labs has gone from strength to strength since opening its doors in April of this year, and the community has grown and matured quickly, but our summer […]

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Fundraising, Lightning, and More

Summary 3D printer is 85% funded, well done everyone! Town Hall meeting on Friday the 16th at 5:30 Informal (read: unsponsored) Flacknite Lite next weekend (17-18th) to hack at the internals of Farset’s management Welcome the Supercollider user group to our Wednesday Schedule Raspberry Jam event on the 29th Nov, BYO-Pi My appearance on the […]

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HacksHackers with Bobbie Johnson

The October HacksHackers event at Farset Labs played host to Bobbie Johnson of Matter fame, who also regularly contributes to the popular GigaOM site and is proprietor of the brilliant @ifyouonly. Bobbie flew over from Brighton specifically for the two-hour event, and landed mid-morning in the George Best Belfast City Airport. After some breakfast, he and those at Farset settled […]

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3D Printer Fund – Sponsume

This morning, we’re launching our first crowd-funding drive to raise £2000 for 3D printing facilities in the space. Since before day one, a 3D printer has been on the minds of the community (and plenty of people who have said that they would join the community if those facilities were available), and now, we’re ready […]

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Lightning Strikes Twice

Gathering of Lightning, Farset Labs’ highly successful ad-hoc presentation series, is coming back after a Freshers Hiatus, again, in collaboration with The British Computing Society, 7pm to 9pm on Thursday the 25th of October.

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Getting Started with Arduino – A Shameless Plug

Have you wanted to fiddle with electronics but don’t have the equipment or knowledge?