Here’s another first for the local tech community: Farset Labs is proud to announce becoming Belfast’s first and only official site for Global Game Jam, set this year for 25-27 January. This is the biggest event of its kind in the world and brings some big name sponsors like Microsoft, Facebook and GitHub. Farset will be […]
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Sorry! Happy New Year! And to kick things off, an apology; our provisionally scheduled Raspberry Jam on the 12th has been postponed until after the exam season as it’s been difficult to get people able to help out at the event. Raspberry Jam will return February GoL: Thur 17th Jan Currently proposed (but not scheduled) […]
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Gathering of Sleet
After a wonderfully democratic Doodle, distributed through our Twitter, Facebook, and IRC channels, the community has decided to have another, informal, ‘Gathering of Sleet’ (aka Gathering of Lightning Event) squeezed into the year at very short notice. This Sunday! (Thanks for that guys… :P) Anyway, standard Gathering of Lightning rules apply: Flying pigs after 7 […]
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 […]
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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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.
The first Town Hall meeting is scheduled for Friday 21th at 1900. It’s going to be an important event for members, as this series of regular meetings will be your chance to influence the decision-making process at Farset Labs. Questions and suggestions will be taken from the floor at the Event, but for those not […]
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 […]