Villages

For more information on villages, see the villages page. If you have a ticket, you can log in to register a village.

List of Villages

Name	Description
Leeds Hackspace	We're Leeds Hackspace! A workshop and craft space for people who like making things, are curious about how stuff works, or would like to learn new skills, based in lovely Leeds.
Village of Doom	A most splendid gathering of most splendid people. With a dinosaur flag.
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NADHack	Newbury & District Hackspace, We promote and encourage technical, scientific, creative and artistic skills through collaboration and education in Newbury and the surrounding areas
Lockpicking Village	This year will see the return of the ever popular lockpicking village! Come and learn to pick locks and/or show off your skills. There will be members of The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers (TOOOL) to show you how and answer questions.
Wintergatan Village	Fans and volunteers of the Wintergatan band unite!
Test Village [Plz Ignore]	Not actually a test, we're real people. From South Oxfordshire and more. A combination of Harwell Hackers and Makers and our friends.
Edinburgh Hacklab	We are a hackerspace based in Edinburgh, bringing our members, friends, and their hacks. All welcome! [30 tents]
Cheltenham Hackspace	Members and friends of Cheltenham Hackspace! Pop in and have a chat. All are welcome! Unless you're from East Essex hackspace.
Pilksoft Interactive	Not a real software company, but a bunch of mainly former Royal Holloway students from the Surrey area camping together. Feel free to come hang out! We have some funky old tech, DJ decks, and pilk in abundance.
GoM / Lucy	For those who were Guild of Makers members and friends. Please message Lucy (Twitter / Bluesky, Via web site / linkedin etc DrLucyRogers ) if you'd like to reserve a spot. It won't be near the ducks.
2016's worst village	A group of people from Bristol camping together with a loosely planned collection of our nonsense. You may have played Mario Kart with us in 2012, or listened to Simon Singh narrate us totally failing to light a barbecue in 2016.
TermiCamp	termisoc alumni & friends. Potentially a crumpet stand for your crumpting needs
VR + PC Gaming Village	We are bringing a Valve Index and gaming rig. Welcoming anyone to come by, try VR or join the village with their gaming kit. Several multiplayer games are on offer and if we get enough people to join, maybe a mini LAN party? Check the link to view the wiki for full details and add your name if you want to join us.
Bristol Hackspace	Folks from Bristol Hackspace
Hacks "R" Us and Friends	Domes and dome enthusiasts
Moose	We are just a bunch of people that got connected by crazy and various circumstances Just a bunch of geeks sharing a story about moose (or possibly meese) who connected by crazy and various circumstances, in a spontaneous and still very dynamic way. Come and visit, we can tell you about all the mosses.
Heart of Gold	DON'T PANIC
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ECS	The ECS Village is for all of the lovely people from the University of Southampton!
Freeside	Freeside is a loose conglomerate of hackers from around the globe. Cyberpunks, Stirner enthusiasts, beer drinkers, hedgehog admirers, and victims of the programming language Go. We are a part of Milliways.
Milton Keynes Makerspace	Milton Keynes Makerspace & Friends Likely including the tea tent, and anything else we get around to!
SeriousCamp	Less serious than the name might suggest Talk to Kristian for more details
Furry High Commission	A village for EMF's Furry community. If you're a furry, or interested in the furry fandom, come and say hi. Many of our number are particularly interested in electronics and radio. We're also a very LGBTQ group. We are a workshop village this year and will be running events where we brew and drink home-brewed beer. We will have a fursuit changing area, social and cooking areas, and pagers available to borrow
Shark Corner	Glauca and Co
East Essex Hackspace CIO	People from Essex. Not recognisable from antics as demonstrated on TOWIE. Feel free to pop by and say hello or come camp with us. We are currently planning a pre-setup LAN party for people to drop in, with some old LAN party games.
Regirock	ÜN ÜN ÜN
Shonkbot	Friends and fans of the Shonkbot, or any sort of low-rent robotics really
Hacking Hamlet	Too small to be a village. Making, fixing, cooking, and enough lights to be visible from space (probably)
Manchester Hackspace	Members of Manchester Hackspace 🐝
Field-FX	A demoparty at emf.
Shrubbery 🪴	A group of friends from Scotland who demand a Shrubbery. There will be a rabbit with big pointy teeth.
Scottish Consulate	Consular Chaos, Deep Fried Buckfast, big dinks and big wiggles
Food Hacking Base	We are bunch of hackers from all around the world who are into food, drinks and bio, experimenting wildly and enjoying each others presence.
Habville	High altitude 🎈 and 🚀
Camp Clippy	A group of friends, most of whom are involved with the Puzzle Hunt, but some aren't. We're also mostly software engineers and mostly based in London. The village name is a tribute to everyone's favourite 1990s virtual assistant.
Model Village	🤖 Model Village 🦾 is for anyone interested in AI, machine learning, data science, deep learning, open data, GenAI, and everything in between. We're a new village for 2024, all are welcome to join us to camp and chat about: 🤖🧠📊 AI, machine learning, DL, statistics, whatever you call it. 📊📈⚖️ Data science, open data, data storytelling, algo bias, AI ethics. 🐍🦀✨ Python, R, Mojo, Rust, or whatever you dig to dig into data. 🎵🎻🎷 Bring instruments! We'd love to have some live music jams in the evenings. Whether you go deep or just dipping your toes into the world of AI, you're welcome to join us. Let's hang out, share insights, and enjoy some tunes together under the stars. 🚀🎸🌌
this.camp()	Just a group of people trying to set up camp allowing for some space for others arriving later.
Unnamed Village	A large group of friends (around 40) from across the UK. We will be running a small programme of kids techy workshops in the village.
Dogsbody HQ	Friends of Dogsbody Technology
fizzPOP Makerspace	Home of Birminghams Makerspace fizzPOP. We will be teaching lock picking, making random stuff and exhibiting various projects/installations.
The Reckless Engineers	Ongoing film project
Cambridge Makespace	The EMF home of Cambridge's Makers space
Hardware Hacking Area	The Hardware Hacking Area is a place available for all participants of EMF Camp -- all day and all night. There are soldering tools and other tools for creating and fixing, as well as for the many workshops scheduled throughout EMF. The location is: Workshop 6 tent
Brighton Consulate	a bunch of people from brighton. and some who are not.
Ukrainian Village	To be confirmed. Ukrainian people. Probably Ukrainian shirts, books, food. No permanent stall planned at the moment.
 	Being soft is a revolutionary act. A tapestry of transfeminine-leaning internet communities. Formerly known as the Cuddly Catgirl Collective and femcamp.
Making Happiness	A group of enthusiastic people from the Netherlands; looking for ways to immaterialise happiness.
Dolphin Emulator Village	Dolphin Emulator developers and friends.
Milliways	Milliways is a group of information security specialists at hacker camps. We bring large infrastructure which we plan and built ourselves. The intercontinental logistics include self constructed installations.
Hacky Racers (Track)	We're already sorted with space to attend, this is just so we can add our own schedule to the EMF site regarding races and such. We're over by the blacksmiths so if you could mark us on the map their please I'd appreciate it.
Aeos Island	A collection of families made up of (mostly young) passionate pokemon players. Drop in for a cuppa/coffee, for a quick game or card swap. We will also be running a sticker swap (sticker for a sticker OR donate MSF for stickers). Other families with young pokemon players are welcome to join.
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NixCamp	A village that aims to show the power of Nix to the world. We want to create an open and welcoming space for people who want to learn and build together. We are all Nix enthusiasts with other interests ranging from radio to game development to AI. We might do small workshops and presentations at the village.
Hackerspaces NL (HSNL)	Village of Dutch hackerspaces and friends
York Hackspace	Just York Hackspace and associated folks camping in a field in Herefordshire.
Flamingo Frontier	We are a slightly disparate group covering different genres of nerds. Some of us will be making LED constructs (that may be pink and long legged in nature); one of us running a workshop; others liaising with the Hackspace Foundation folk; and at least one playing with ham radios. All of us are here for General Malarky and a hearty camping breakfast.
Sounds Like Art	Sound Artists: Experienced field recordists, noisemakers, AI enthusiasts, instrument makers, electronics wizards, sculptors...
Irish Embassy	Loose collective of people with some connection to / interest in Ireland, who travel to hacker/maker events and pool resources to create shared spaces while there. You don't need to be from Ireland. You don't need to be living in Ireland. Mostly you just need to be able to get on with us for a week/end.
Gothic Valley	Nothing special but we might draw bats
IfDA School of Technology	💅
data_rave	We are building an interactive DJ set that anybody can join in with and control. We are a few friends that mostly all met online. We're flying in from different parts of the world and we will be bringing DJ decks + speakers + other goodies. All welcome
tilde.industries	We are a team of friends combining our talents of our members to create interesting and beautiful things~ Come by for a chat & coffee!
Leigh Hackspace	Hi, we're Leigh Hackspace. A collection of makers and artists from Leigh, Greater Manchester. This will be our first EMF camp as a Hackspace, so we're looking forward to meeting people.
lowland village	Group of buddies from the lowlands; the Netherlands and Flanders, with a broad variety of interests. sysadmin, HAM radio, experimental music making and (retro) gaming.
Treadz 'n' Webz	Group of friends with some drop in workshops: Threadz: tablet weaving Webz: Xeon PHI nodes to play with
100 Acre Wood (of Geeks)	Pooh, Eeyore, Rabbit and more welcome you to the RGB tents for hot drinks, honey, talk and trying new things. Drop by, create or collaborate on an idea, experiment with a cricut, screen printing, laser cutter, and other gadgets. Pop your project in the gallery and/or take a photo. The on-site psychologist is in/out (like cats in boxes. Check the grey gazebo to find out). Much like the inhabitants of 100 acre wood, the rest of us might be hiding.
Knife & Tool Sharpening	Join us for a drop-in workshop on Tool and Knife sharpening! We'll be running every day from 10-4 (with a few breaks in between) to teach manual tool sharpening using traditional whetstones. Due to the handling of sharp objects, this workshop is 18+, or 12+ if supervised by a responsible adult.
Content Creators Village	Meet the Makers James Bruton & his Giant Tentacle Rob Robot, Matt Denton and his giant scale Lego inspired 3D prints and R2-D2 builder Lee Towersey!
The Northern Quarter	This is the village where Maker Space (of Newcastle and Gateshead) members and friends will be gathering. Our only real policy is "Flat caps optional, being nice mandatory". That and the global not being on fire thing. This year we are big on LEDs, flags, more LEDs, yet more LEDs, and digital radio. There will also be tea. Lots of tea. We are big on tea.
TkkrLab	Tkkrlab is a community hackerspace in Enschede, Netherlands.
Maths Village	The Maths Village is run by a group of mathematicians and maths communicators from all over the UK - including researchers, authors, presenters, YouTubers and hobbyists. This year the Maths Village will be one of EMF's Workshop Villages, hosting workshops from the main programme alongside their own content. Last EMF, we had a selection of hands-on maths puzzles, free maths magazines, interactive gadgets and games, dome-building workshops, face painting and a MathsJam evening. If you're a big maths fan already, or want to get into it (or back into it) you're welcome to join us to do some maths, and see what exciting stuff we've come up with this time.
Poorly Located Prog	An erratic collection of makers, burners, goths and hippies from Cambridge here to have a good time and bring chaos and/or prog to EMF.
ECHQ	Amateur Radio, Telephones, Communications, Retro Computers, etc. Made up of the EMF Hams (G1EMF), MastCar ARC (G1CAR), CuTEL, and friends. In previous years we were the "Amateur Radio Village" N.B We're not affiliated with the EMF organisers, and we can't help with your WiFi
Motley Crew	Miscellaneous family and friends.
Teesside Hackspace
Koala Programming	A small group formed when two loosely connected communities accidentally realised they'd both have attendees at EMF. Not really anything to do with Koalas, and not everyone is a programmer either. Naming things is hard!
Swansea Hackspace	A bunch of folks from Swansea Hackspace. We will be bringing lots of phones, radios and possibly a fax machine. Interests in electronics, radio, sewing, crafts, programming and making in general!
Arcade	Electromagnetic Field Arcade This is not a camping village, but for scheduling game developer demos and Q&A times.
Nottingham Hackspace	Nottinghack is a Nottingham based group for hackers, makers and crafty creative people! Nottinghack are helping run Workshop 1 and will be hosting several workshops there by our members, including a morning pop up cafe 8:30 - 9:30AM for pastries, tea and coffee (bring a flask!) and we will have a selection of snacks available for purchase in our tent next to Workshop 1
Odin's Tesla Fest	Odin is a large musical Tesla coil that will be generating up to 3m of sparks flavoured with industrial drum'n'bass. Plus other guest Tesla coils TBD. Anyone with an interest in high voltage or power electronics welcome. Odin accepts audio input from electronic music equipment so I would like to hear from other musicians or DJs who might be interested in plugging in.
South London Makerspace	South London Makerspace is a social community workshop in the heart of South London, this is a place for all our members to camp together.
Intense City	Enthusiastic City Dwellers
Hitchin Hackspace	Hitchin Hackspace - North Herts Makers. The little hackspace that likes to build big things. Come along, say hello, and see what outlandishly outsized creation we've brought this time.
AMSAT-UK / BATC / UKuG	Amateur Radio demonstrations and talks. Members representing AMSAT-UK (Amateur Satellites), BATC (British Amateur Television Club), UKuG (UK Microwave Group).
TWASK	We're TWASK (FKA: AIA), a bunch of friends from the London area. You'll find us camping somewhere in proximity to the Scottish Consulate and Milliways - usually we fly a Pride Kubernetes flag. As with previous years, we can only apologise in advance. Things you might find in our village: - An eclectic mix of radios, including some LORA - Weird old, maybe working, analogue cameras - DJing - Twinks - Beverages - ?????
League of Dibs	A Group of 8 - 15 friends from around the Reading Area wanting to set up a village together.
Spaced Out	Loud music at times, Chilling at others. Map Space claim
Hat Village	Just a collection of mates camping in glowing hats. ~ 16 people
Bodgeham-on-Wye	In the care of Hackerly Parish Council.
Unaffiliated	A village for people without a village, if you're coming on your own and would like to meet a few people who are in the same situation add yourself to the linked wiki page, and camp somewhere in the vicinity of the village's spot on the map.
London Aerospace	The increasingly misnamed London Aerospace. All things drone and model flight-related. We're a friendly bunch, so feel free to swing by and say hello, or simply stare at our mesmerising RGB village sign.
Treeodesic! Wand Making	Wand Making for Muggles. - We are running green wood workshop for any one to come along and have a go at making a wand from green wood. You will learn how to use a shave horse and a draw knife to shape your wand. And there will be some tools for you to carve patterns in to the wand. We will also provide a range of finishing products to help you perfect the finish and install the magical powers needed. This is the perfect session for you to create a wand as a cosplay accessory. we can accommodate any age, but for youngsters please drag an adult along, as we do work with sharp tools. No dark arts spells allowed within the workshop tent.
Tekhnē-cal Village	A village for people who like playing with string 🪡 🧶 - knitting, crochet, weaving, sewing conductive wearables, embroidery, handspinning, and any other fibre crafts! There will be a central comfy place to sit in the marquee, free materials for sharing, maybe a couple spare table looms/hooks/knitting needles to use, and a kettle on for tea and coffee. Open to anyone interested. Family-friendly. Hoping to get enough people to organise some drop-in workshops.