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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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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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Three Months In: Help Wanted

Farset is still here and still going strong post-exam/graduation season, which saw a large proportion of our membership (and directors) being very pressed for time. Now it’s time to look back over three brilliant months, and to continue to grow in the future. In those three short months, Farset Labs has established itself as a […]

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Gathering of Lightning

On the 7th of July, the clouds will split and lightning will rain down upon Belfast. Farset Labs is holding its first monthly Gathering of Lightning event, where members of the community present “Lightning Talks”; short, sharp, only partially prepared talks from people who are passionate about a particular topic.

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One Month In

As of today, Farset Labs is one month old. Well, that’s not entirely true; Farset Labs has several ages…

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Coming Soon: Bloc54, Flacknite, Electronics, 3D Printer

Just a quick update folks; sorry to disturb

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Community Choice: Tech-Get-Together

As we creep up towards 100 Facebook likes, it’s about time that we started some proper community events on a regular basis. When do you want to have a weekly tech-get-together in the Event Space? We want to open up the space to our community, just to chill out and chat about their working/playing week […]

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Liveblog: Launch-day Lunacy

Today is the day; After a long time coming (too long for some), Farset Labs is ready to launch in an ‘open beta’ stage. From 1500, we’ll open the doors (for a small fee for non-members), and we’ll be live-blogging here for your delectation. To get involved in the community; join us on IRC, Facebook, Twitter, […]

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Nearly There! Updates and Donation Request

Things have been moving fairly quickly (compared to the normal speed of Northern Irish progress), but it’s about time we made a public update. Due to the practicalities of developing something like this, a lot of the day-to-day development of Farset Labs has been done with little publicity. This was to maintain clear communication within […]

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What is “Farset Labs”?

Over the years, several attempts have been made at making a Hackerspace/Makerspace  in Belfast, the aims of which were slightly different but centred around creating a shared experimental facility for the NI tech community. Some people have called it a ‘Geek Gym’, or a ‘Tech Playground’, others have called it ‘An Amateur Version of the NITC‘ […]