Electromagnetic Field 2016

EMF 2016 was held between and at Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey, UK.

Below you can find a list of talks and workshops. You can find more memories from EMF 2016 on the Internet Archive.

Main Stages

Name Title
Matthew Ireland 100 years of Shannon -- the man, his work and his legacy Has video
Phil Nash 2FA, WTF? Has video
Henry Segerman 3D printed sculptures of 4D things Has video
Chris Lynas 3d Printing the World's Most Pointless Desk Fan Has video
Cat Harris A brief history of effects in film Has video
PJ Evans A Brief, Incomplete, Slightly Biased, and Mostly Fact-Checked History of the UK Computer Industry Has video
Dan Weatherill A call to arms - let's hack USB devices, it's mostly easier than you think Has video
Dave Rowntree A hacker's guide to satellites Has video
Alex Bolton A mathematical view of voting systems Has video
Gavin Starks Acoustic Cosmology Has video
Katy Moe APIs for cyborgs Has video
Tim Lossen Apocalypse Later Has video
Matthew Ireland Asynchronous or Analogue Methods for Computation
Sam Fidler Beer for Everyone Has video
Chris Binny Biological Computation Has video
Matt Smith Black Hat Locksmithing Has video
Tobias McBride Blood, Sweat & Carbon: Our Solar Car Has video
Manoj Nathwani Building a wearable camera Has video
Grigorios Fragkos Can you really hack an airplane? (myths & truths)
Russell Couper CANUTE, The worlds first working refreshable multiline braille display Has video
Dan Smith Car Hacking - Back to the future 1970’s style. Has video
Giles Greenway Chaotic Music: Oblique Strategies Against Humanity Has video
Jen Persson, defenddigitalme Come and play: Collect ‘em all? Tech, fundamental rights and framing our future. Fact or fiction? Has video
GB8EMF Amateur Radio Station Connecting computers together over 1,000s miles without using the Internet Has video
Michelle D'israeli Cyber security and the joy of the false positive Has video
Jessica Barker Cyber Security Myths and Monsters: how to change behaviours for the better Has video
Sarah Gold Design for consumer rights, now Has video
Alessia Milo and Christian Heinrichs Designing and performing future instruments Has video
Dave Harvey Digital Medical Imaging - from scanner to screen. Has video
Jonty Wareing EMF 2016 Closing Ceremony Has video
Will Hargrave, Arjan Koopen, David Croft EMF 2016 Infrastructure Review Has video
Jonty Wareing EMF 2016 Opening Ceremony Has video
Elger "Stitch" Jonker Fail Map, visualizing security fail at trusted parties for your protection Has video
Matthew Scroggs Four Stories about Recreational Maths Has video
andre Freifunk - Free and Open Wireless Community Networks Has video
Branden Faulls Friday Latening Talks
Piet De Vaere From transistor to processor Has video
Geek Showoff GEEK SHOWOFF
Dan Jenkins Getting Physical with Web Bluetooth in the Browser Has video
hannah dee Getting the kids on board: tales from 10 years of schools outreach in technology Has video
Dr Lucy Rogers Hacking Robot Dinosaurs Has video
Jo Pearce Hacking Your Head : Managing Information Overload Has video
Ben Dornan Here, hear: Sound-based illusions Has video
Gavan Fantom Hobby electronics like a pro Has video
Tom Oinn Holonomic robots, and why you should build one Has video
Rory Gallagher Home made hacks to fully registered maker charity.
Russell Couper How I built my diesel powered motorcycle. Has video
Freakyclown (@__freakyclown__) How I used to rob banks (and other fun stories)
Michael Conterio How is the Universe Like A Lightbulb? Has video
moko/zakx How to make your own wearable color organ dress Has video
Caroline Arkenson How we created a hackathon with 50/50 female and male participants Has video
Sam Machin I never knew SMS could do that. Has video
Jessica Rose Impostor Syndrome and Individual Competence Has video
Kev Sheldrake Inside Our Toys - How to Hack Into an Embedded Device Has video
Rebecca Kleinberger Inside the MIT Media Lab
Jeff Homer Internet of Things with MATLAB and Raspberry Pi
James Macfarlane It's Only Rocket Science
Katie Steckles Katie Steckles does some maths Has video
Jos Weyers Key Impressioning Has video
Steven Goodwin LEGO Punk - Silly things to do with LEGO Has video
Eireann Leverett Lightning Talks Has video
James Merlin Magic: Tricks, puzzles, or illusions?
Tim Burrell-Saward Mars, the Bringer of Wub Has video
Alexander J. Martin Meatspace Surveillance Has video
Nicholas Tollervey MicroPython: What is it? What does it do? Why is it suddenly everywhere? Has video
James Miller Mind Control - What is really possible with technology and the power of your mind? Has video
Catherine Flick Morality in video games: when it's not just a game Has video
John McEntee My self built eco house. Has video
Michael Ossmann My Ubertooth Year Has video
Henry Cooke Numbers Stations: Cold War, short waves Has video
Rich Metson 'Off Grid' : a game about circumvention tech and hacking Has video
Harald Welte Osmocom - Open Source Mobile Communications Has video
Calum Penetrating Pandora: Dismantling Dangerous Devices
Dan Weatherill photons to electrons: how imaging sensors work from quantum mechanics up Has video
Laurie James Ragequit! Game design principles for better online communities. Has video
Ryan Sayre Rebooting a Hobby: How Modern Digital Comms are Reviving Amateur Radio Has video
Daniel Cussen Receiving live video from the Space station Has video
Dan Hagon Riddles on Rails Has video
Philip Potter Saving milliseconds and wasting hours: a survey of tool-assisted speedrunning Has video
Sarah Wiseman Scientifically ruining the interfaces in movies Has video
Kate Devlin Sex! Robots! Sex Robots!
Elger "Stitch" Jonker SHA2017
Scary Boots Shape-changing in nature and puny human efforts to emulate it Has video
Jon Butterworth Smashing Physics - latest news from CERN's Large Hadron Collider Has video
Igor Nikolic Socio-technical evolution for hackers Has video
Caroline Graham Sustainable open source? Has video
Alia Sheikh & Cat Harris Tentman: The story so far... Has video
Charlotte Godley The automated Sheet Music Librarian Has video
Radu Sporea The coming of age of plastic electronics Has video
Jonty Wareing The EMF 2016 Badge Has video
David Hulton The Final Nail in DES's Coffin
Katie Eagleton The history and future of books Has video
Dragica Kahlina The Red String Has video
Sophie Scott The science of laughter Has video
Simon Singh The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets
Stuart Robinson The story behind $50SAT, a new approach to Amateur satellite design which became the world’s smallest operational satellite, built for £125 in a garden shed. Has video
Chris Hunt This Is Where We Are: A TIWWA @ Tate Modern Postmortem Has video
MIke Harrison Using printed circuit boards to make snowflakes. Has video
Emma O'Sullivan What even is a "maker"? How we see ourselves and how other people see us
Beth Healey WhiteSpace Has video
stephen coates X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone
Piet De Vaere Zebro: building a six legged robot Has video

Workshops

Name Title
Jame Nixon 35mm pinhole camera building workshop/photo walk
Andrew Gordon A Fresh Look At Mental Health
Colin Rowat a smartphone brain-computer interface workshop
Dan Weatherill backyard optics
James Smith Building an open source political platform
Matthew Little DIY Solar Charger Workshop
Catherine Flick Dungeons and Dragons & board games open session
Rebecca Kleinberger Eggshell carving
Jess Rose Enter-tent-ment karaoke
Steven Gravell Go workshop and open discussion
Libby Miller, Richard Sewell, John Hawkes-Reed Having Daft Ideas
Jim MacArthur Hebocon (Low-tech robot fight)
Michael Straeubig Imperfect VR Workshop
Ben Dornan Introduction to Japanese Bookbinding
Ryan Alexander Introduction to Mixology - making the Old Fashioned cocktail
Linda Sandvik Kite mapping
Linda Sandvik Kite Mapping Part 2
Kate Bolin Learn to Knit!
Amy Mather LED Cards
Richard Sewell Make your own titanium spork
Katie Steckles Maths card tricks
Sai Meditation for Hackers
Akito van Troyer Musification
Peter Jackson Paper Circuits
Ben Foxall Realtime Web
Harald Welte Running your own cellular network using OpenBSC & Co
Jeffrey Roe Skull Radio Workshop
Kliment Surface-mount electronics (SMD) assembly for terrified beginners
Jo Franchetti Swing Dancing for Engineers
KRN & MX & OLF The Artists guide to the Deep Learning Galaxy (for any level of experience)
Harald Welte Tracing (U)SIM card communication using Osmocom SIMtrace
Vicki Winter Yarn making 101