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Open Evening

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 […]

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Roles, the new Farset Labs Membership Model

Farset Labs is adopting a new membership model in the next few weeks to adapt to the different needs of the different types of members in the space. This both helps students and those of low income by significantly cutting the costs of membership, and provides a bed for more wealthy people to get access […]

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The Latest Flacknite: BBC Micros, Culture Night & more

As our members and followers, will be aware, Flacknite is our semi-regular monthly hackathon, spanning at least 24 hours, which is open to everyone. It provides a bed, a home and an excuse for projects that have been put back, and a lively environment for more time-sensitive ones. As always, they’re catered with food and […]

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Town Hall Meeting and The Gilchrist & Co 5th Anniversary Event

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 […]

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The Return Of Flacknite – The Synchronous Hackathon

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 […]

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Blackboard Tuesdays and the Gilchrist & Co 5th Birthday Get-Together

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 […]

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SpaceAPI Update

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 […]

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When Tech-Camp invaded Farset

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.

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Week in Review

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 […]

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New Look:Gathering Of Lightning

  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 […]