Farset Labs
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 […]
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.
Have you wanted to fiddle with electronics but don’t have the equipment or knowledge?
All the time, we’re talking to people about what we do at Farset Labs, and often, when we talk about our amazing community, people have two reactions: Awesome! These people can help me learn and grow! Ahh crap, I don’t want to butt in on their clique And so, to try and fix that secondary […]
Flacknite returns to join up with the rest of the Irish Hackerspaces in the Synchronous hackathon next weekend over Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th. Drink, Noms, and Hacking, all kindly supported by the folks at Instil, who you may know for their fantastic BASH developer events, including the upcoming Big Data Bash (Sold out at […]
Some say that he was once in a joint AMA with Chuck Norris, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and The Most Interesting Man In The World, and still got the most questions. All we know is, he’s Martin Gilchrist. Martin is a regular user of the space and always has some hairbrained idea to try out and […]
The SpaceAPI was born in the Netherlands, and now lives on github. As the name would indicate, it provides an API abstraction layer to a physical (hacker)space. It exposes information such as: * Open/Closed State * Location * Webcam Feeds * Contact Details * Sensor data and more, from a simple JSON API. The Farset Labs […]
Tech-Camp, a 4 day residential run by the Rosemary Presbyterian Church for 13-16 year olds, “filled with lots of visuals, audio, internet and much more” came to Farset Labs last Friday. And boy was it a wild afternoon.
Well, it’s been an interesting few weeks. Open Data Playground After several abortive attempts over the past few months (mea culpa!), Open Data Playground on Thursday evening was a blast. Things started off with a good hearty conversation between the attendees and our visitors from the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Communications office, Michael and Caroline. They […]
We all loved the idea of Gathering Of Lightning, but the PR for it was slightly neglected (mea culpa). Not this time! On Tuesday, 31st, we’re doing it all over again. Beer, Pizza, and Lightning fast discussions from a range of selected speakers from our own community. While there will be plenty of time […]