Farset Labs
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 […]
Our long and exciting Sponsume campaign is finally over, and there is evidently plenty of support for a 3D printer within the space – we raised over £100 extra by the time the fundraiser was finished. In the time that it ran, we saw very evident spikes and patterns, which coincided nicely with various announcements and […]
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 […]
The October HacksHackers event at Farset Labs played host to Bobbie Johnson of Matter fame, who also regularly contributes to the popular GigaOM site and is proprietor of the brilliant @ifyouonly. Bobbie flew over from Brighton specifically for the two-hour event, and landed mid-morning in the George Best Belfast City Airport. After some breakfast, he and those at Farset settled […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.