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Free Workshop for Secondary Teachers: Introduction to BBC micro:bit

Interested in getting hands experiences on with the BBC micro:bit, due to land in the hands of every Year 8 student in the summer term? Now’s your chance! Farset Labs will be running a free, hands on “Getting started with the BBC micro:bit” Computing at Schools Northern Ireland Hub workshop on the 10th March 2016 […]

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Global Game Jam 2016 | 29th-31st January

Global Game Jam at Farset Labs is back again in 2016.  The Game Jam will run from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st January, and is a chance to meet some great people and develop a fun game in a weekend.  With a party atmosphere from Friday night, there will be plenty of people there to […]

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Farset Seasonal Pot-Luck Dinner Hack 2015

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 of sharing food with good […]

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FailFast: Come and Play with Ideas on Makers’ Day, part of Belfast Design Week

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 all take the journey from idea […]

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CoderDojo Back for Autumn 2015 Term

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 like minded people, show off […]

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Making it Through the Third Industrial Revolution

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 to their audience of a […]

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Guest Post: CULTURETECH BBC MAKE IT DIGITAL DOTS BOARDS ACTIVITY

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 since taken over the running […]

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ELi5: September

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 stuff. It’s also a great […]

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Farset Outreach 2015/16 – Call for mentors

TL;DR Want to support outreach and education activities at Farset Labs, or just get voluntary sector experience? Sign Up Here! After a long summer hiatus, CoderDojo is relaunching at Farset Labs, under old management on Friday the 2nd of October from 17:30 to 19:30. We’re also unveiling separate FarsetDojo Twitter and Facebook pages where we’ll be sharing […]

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Unbox new stuff with us! | 29th July

“In an African desert millions of years ago, a tribe of humanoid-apes is driven from their water hole by a rival tribe. They wake to find a featureless monolith has appeared before them. One individual realizes how to use a bone as a tool and weapon; the tribe kills the leader of their rivals and […]