FarsetLabs BELFAST

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 Lightningevent, where members of the community present “Lightning Talks”; short, sharp, only partially prepared talks from people who are passionate about a particular topic.

From electronics, to education, cloud computing to corporate responsibility, these no-holds-barred rants informed monologues are sure to be an entertaining and informative addition to the growing Farset event calendar.

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Farset Labs is a mix of people with a mix of ambitions. Some want a high flying career, some want a steady existance, and some want to jump off a cliff and build a plane on the way down.

If you’re one of the latter ones, you might be interested in the ITI SeedCorncompetition. Long story short, it’s a business plan competition for up and coming SME’s, entrepreneurs or just people with an idea, competing for a share of €280,000 in funding, as
well as a wealth of mentorship support and advice.

If you want more information, or just want to get a feel for the competition, they’re having a free briefing day on Wed 6th. (NOTE The venue has changed from the Holiday Inn to the Momentum offices on Ravenhill Road)

Best of luck, and don’t forget your old friends Farset when you make it big!

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Now that Flacknite is over with, we can have some relaxed hackery.

Open Data is the big buzzword of our day. And with connected health and data visualisation being similar scale buzzwords, we thought it’d be good to have a series of nice relaxed ‘Open Data Playground’ events, where web devs, graphic designers, *QL sorcerers, and Data mining enthusiasts can hang out and play with bits.

No pressure, no ‘sponsors’, no competitions. Just pure unadulterated geekery.

Don’t worry if this ‘isn’t your area’ or ‘you don’t know where to start’. There will be other geeks there that will be able to help. Just ask!

So that’s about it! A few guys from TechBritainwill be about to check the place out, and while we’ll probably still have... ...

Flacknite was a great success, despite being stood up by Red Bull and some questionable sleeping patterns!

All in all, we got a lot done, and have learned a lot about how people work independently in these kind of events;

In terms of ‘stuff done’, probably the best show piece was Ryan Grieve‘s Microid game that he wrote for  Mini LD games jam – 19th-20th May 2012, where he restricted himself to 64×18 pixels, causing hours and hours of lost/distracted time for everyone else! Thanks Ryan!

Additionally, we got alot of work done in terms of our RFID access system, even though our planned external reader turned out to be a ‘useless’ standard that no-one has… But our striker is working and we’re waiting on a new reader to open the space up to all. CCTV is up, but not ready yet, pending the arrival of our capture card. Network is done to Stealthii’ssatisfaction.

Andrew Luke got a lot of work done on his great website for his comic about coping with Epilepsy, a project part funded by UnLtd.

Steve Wilkin got a iOS client for his CoffeeTracker project built.

Rob Elkin and co were working... ...

This is a short timelapse video of the preperations for Flacknite today/tomorrow. Come on down and see what happens!

Follow the webcam here!

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