Author: farsetlabs
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It was a closely fought race between Pip and Ron but in the end, the community rallied behind Pip to help bring her vision to the leadership at Farset Labs. When I hassled her for comment, this is what she had to say: Cheers to all who got involved in the recent…
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Good merry-tide, members, friends, associates, and lovely patient observers! The year rushed us into winter with the alacrity of a brusque elderly relation, so it’s once more time to meet together and eat together! The Plan Bring something tasty, or at least something edible, to Farset Labs for an evening…
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UPDATE: Voting is now open; if you haven’t recieved an email and think you should have, or can’t access the poll, contact membership@farsetlabs.org.uk to double check your membership status. Our nomination period is up and voting will open shortly (emails will be sent to all current members eligible to vote)…
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Fail fast, fail cheap. Or is it “fail fast, fail often”? On Saturday, 7 Nov we’re uniting with some of our friends, including The Design Salon and The Potting Shed, for an all-day event, as part of the first ever Belfast Design Week. You’re invited to join us in a creative, hands-on, welcoming environment, as we…
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+ Events+ belfast design week, belfast soup, creative process, creativity, design, design salon, design thinking, Event, potting shed, prototyping, rapid prototyping, workshop+
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On the weekend of Saturday the 21st of November, Farset Labs is hosting a weekend long hackathon brought to you by the very nice folk at Chain Reaction Technology. Running from the morning of Saturday to the evening of Sunday the 22nd, the type of projects you can enter are…
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Farset Labs is run by a dedicated team of volunteers, starting with the original three directors back in late 2011/early 2012. Since then, we aim to try and keep the number of directors at five, which we haven’t been at for a while, so it’s time to (re)launch our 2015 Director…
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This Friday (2nd) at 17:30, the Dojo is back. Info for Kids/Parents CoderDojo is a movement orientated around running not-for-profit coding clubs and regular sessions for young people. At CoderDojo, young people learn how to code, develop websites, apps, programs, games and more. In addition to learning to code, members meet…
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Digitisation is transforming our world and it is the communities of curious, creative people – like those who gather in makerspaces – who are best-placed to thrive after the dust settles. Update: link to presentation slides on SlideShare My friends at the youth-led Create conference generously invited me to speak…
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+ Events+ Create, Generation Innovation, Hacker, Hackerspace, industrial revolution, Maker, Maker Movement, Makerspace, NISP, NISP CONNECT+
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Foreword Andrew Mulholland has been an active member of the Farset community since he was dragged down from native Coleraine to attend the first Raspberry Jam in Northern Ireland, hosted by Farset Labs in the Event space in November 2012. Since then he’s gone from strength to strength and has…
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It’s that time again, where we come together and share some of the madness that we’ve been making, either in our professional or project-based lives and try to bring ourselves up from the depths of exploration to explain it to other human beings who haven’t been living and breathing this…