Electromagnetic Field 2018

EMF 2018 was held between 2018-08-31 and 2018-09-02 at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Eastnor, Herefordshire, UK.

Below you can find a list of talks and workshops. You can find more memories from EMF 2018 on the Internet Archive.

Main Stages

Name	Title
John Dingley	10 years building self-balancing ride on robots
Ben Fitzgerald	101 Hacks for Late Soviet Water Towers
Ruth Amos	5 things we can all learn from Flaming Pianos
John Dalziel	A brief history of Leap Seconds
Libby Miller	A cheap, remotely posable presence robot using a Raspberry Pi, webRTC and a few servos
John Thurmond	A Failure Enthusiast
Lydia Kostopoulos	A Magical Time To Be Alive
Dr Marion Brooks Brooks-Bartlett	A Mindful PhD
Fearn Bishop	A Tour Through the Visualization Jungle
Richard Westenra	Actually, it's about ethics in software engineering
Scott Pitkethly	Adventures in DIY Electronic Instruments
Andrew Jenner	Adventures in retrocomputing
Chemical Adam	Adventures in somatosensory music, body hacking & beyond
simon munnery	Adventures in Undertent Heating
Rob Miles	AI Safety
Cass May	Algorithmic Light Art: How To Not Suck
Dr Danny Webster	An Introduction to Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
Matt Denton	Animatronics and robots in the movies with Matt Denton
Chris Taylor	Antiparticles and Geiger counters
Mitch Altman	ArduTouch music synthesizer -- music generation for newbies
Andrejus Kostarevas	Attacking Websites for Educational Purposes Only
Lydia Nicholas	Augmented Hilarity
Mustafa Al-Bassam and Jake Davis	Banned from encrypting
Geo Meadows	Beehive monitor based on Raspberry Pi
PJ Evans	Boiling Nemo - Make your own Internet of Things
g5pw	Bootstrapping a hackerspace
Dr. Tyr Fothergill	BRAAAAAAAINS: Archaeology and Philosophy of Zombies in Games
Dominic Morrow	Bricolage: a makers podcast LIVE
Rehana Al-Soltane & Ed Hill	BrightSign: Gesture Recognition and Talking Gloves
Building a robot with MATLAB and Simulink	Building a robot with MATLAB and Simulink
Jessica Rose	Burnout and Your Meat Computer
Dan Smith & Laura Hyatt	Car Hacking - Back to the future 1970’s style Part II
Jonty Wareing	Closing Ceremony
Catherine Flick	Codes of Ethics for tech: the hip old thing
Matthew Ireland	Computational Creativity
Kev Sheldrake	Cracking HiTag2 Crypto
Nicolas Angelides	Dark-Dark Dark-Matter Matter-Matter
Alistair MacDonald	Deploying a LoRaWAN network
Dr. James Beeley	Designing Custom Chips and Sensors and Lab-in-a-Pill Technology
Tim Stoddard	Developing Games for the Casino/Gaming Industry
Edye Hoffmann	Do you really want a robot in your old age?
Tudor Tarlev	Document & quantify informal learning
Ed Locard	Don't Feed Them After Midnight: Reverse-Engineering the Furby Connect
David Croft, Will Hargrave	EMF 2018 Infrastructure Review
Matthew Garrett	Everything you never wanted to know about smart lightbulbs
Mike Curtis-Rouse	Falling Faster Straight Down, or How Taking 3D Printing to New Heights
Michael Dales	From Idiot to Imposter: how to get started in a new field
Laura James	From making to maintaining
Jane Charlesworth	Full communism and free pickles - life lessons from Ursula K Le Guin
Chromatouch	Gravity Synth
Mate Soos	Hacking using SAT and SMT solvers
Hannah Fry	Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
Paul	How does railway signalling work?
Ben Proctor	How the Internet has changed emergencies
Andy Vine	How to Climb a Mountain.
Sophie Lovejoy	How to dispose of a body: a dead interesting talk
Muhammad Sayed	How to make a humanoid using a 3D printer, wheelchair, and ROS!
Alia Sheikh	How To Make a Movie at EMF
Poppy and Jan Mosbacher	How to Use Digital Tools to Make Clothes and Shoes
Andreas Korn	Hunting for (un)known particles
Jake Davis & Iain Softley	Iain Softley in conversation with Jake Davis
Rachel Konichiwakitty	Lesson 101: Making Fashion Tech & Human Organs
Antonia Forster	LGBTQIA+ Behaviour in Animals
Robert Karpinski	Life after Robot Wars
Lightning Talks	Lightning Talks Friday
Lightning Talks	Lightning Talks Saturday
Lightning Talks	Lightning Talks Sunday
Jenny List	Making And Understanding Real Cider
Gavan Fantom	Making music in the free and open-source world
Helen Leigh	Making the Mini.Mu, a sewable, codeable instrument for kids
Matthew Scroggs	Maths and Video Games
Giles Greenway	Never Mind the Molluscs: (Mis)Adventures in "Aggro-Rhythmic Composition"
Matt Carroll	Newsveillance
Patrick O'Connor	Numbers vs Resources: The History of Banking
Sammy	Open Bionics: Turning children with limb differences into bionic superheroes
merlin	Open-Source Modular Tech Jewelry
Jonty Wareing	Opening Ceremony
Michael Turner	Orbs Game Explained
Julia Hawkes-Reed	Out daemons, out! Exploring depression through sweary automata.
GeekyTim	Pi Wars - Challenging kids (and adults) to build competitive robots
Barney Livingston	Poetoid Lyricam: A Camera That Takes Poems
Matthew Hodgson	Power to the people: liberating online communication with Matrix.org
Maximus Ironthumper & Mark Tanner	Project Awesome - Two Men, A Pipe Organ and A Russian Army Lorry.
Scary Boots	Richard Feynman: Dick.
Ian B Dunne	Science Magic...Magic Science
Kate Devlin	Sex Robots! The Truth Behind the Headlines
Julius ter Pelkwijk	SHA2017 - Behind the scenes of a hacker conference
Gianluca Memoli	Shaping sound
James Harrison	Shooting Lasers at the Countryside: An Introduction to Mobile Mapping
Anna Ploszajski	Smart Materials
Michelle Strickland	Spider Silk: Hacking Nature's Strongest Fibre
Sean Elvidge	Sunny with a Mild Chance of Catastrophe
Kev Sheldrake	Taking Over The World with Scratch
Andrew Godwin	Taming Terrain: Sculpting geoscapes from LiDAR
Terence Eden	The (Connected) House of Horrors
Tony Abbey	The 1949 EDSAC Computer Rebuild
Kate Tolley	The Art And Science Of The Motivational Corporate Anthem
Emily Mayhew	The Battle of Mosul: what does it mean to live in a post-Geneva Convention world
Chris Wright	The Future of Invention
Sarah Spencer	The Knitting Network Printer
Marek Ventur	The making of TiLDA Mk4
Tim Pritlove	The secret powers of podcasting
Genevieve Smith-Nunes	The Singularity: dance, digital ethics and datavis
Kate Bolin	The Story of Elmer McCurdy
Rory Mangles	The TIM Project: Building a relay computer from scrap
Eric Drass aka shardcore	The Truth, Post-Truth & Nothing Like The Truth
David Mills	The use and abuse of CT scanners
Henry Cooke	Things That Go Bump On The Net
jo franchetti	Tweet My Wedding Dress
Henry Sands	Urban Beekeeping: How to get started
Simon Bedford	Using Machine Learning for Humanitarian Aims
Norman Casagrande	WaveNet, what's behind Google's voice
Alastair Reid	What makes processors fail - and how to prevent it
Kat Joyce	Who watches the watchers in Web PKI?
Alec Muffett	Why and How you should start using Onion Networking
mc.fly	Why automated number plate recognition systems suck
James Capper	WHY DID YOU MAKE THAT?
Sarah Wiseman	Why does 🍕 mean "I love you" : The ways that we use and misuse emoji
Florence Schechter	Why The World Needs A Vagina Museum
Charvy Narain	Why volunteers are unsung heroes of science

Workshops

Name	Title
Helen Leigh	Adorable electronics: craft-based making
Pippa King and Jen Persson	Age Appropriate Design Online — a new UK Code of Practice is coming
University of Southampton - Computational Engineering and Design	Air quality sensor devices: Build, program and test.
James	An Impostor's Clay Workshop (and firing!)
Jonny Austin	Be a Computer! Demystifying assembly language and CPUs
Iain Sharp	Beginners guide to modular sound synthesizers using VCV Rack
Ben Dornan	Bookbinding and Boxmaking Techniques for Hackers
MSRaynsford	Build a 'Stranger Things' Light Board
Matthew Little	Build a DIY EMF detector
Adam Greig	Build a rocket
Becky Stewart	Build a Wearable with Paper Circuitry and Bela Mini
Spencer owen	Build a Z80 Retro Computer Kit
Em O'Sullivan	Building inclusive makerspaces
Steve Samuels	Carve your own Viking Drinking Horn!
Christopher Wells	Chainmailling for beginners
Frazer Merrick	Circuit Bending
Matthew Pilling	Design Fiction – Using Science Fiction for invention
Cara McIntosh	Dorset Buttons
Mike Haber	Drama, and what we'd like to do about it
Karolina Alexiou	Drawing for techies
Stewart Dunn	Fun Balloon Hats that Glow
Ada Rose Cannon	Get started with Virtual Reality!
Iulian Arcus	Hackspaces round table
Helen	Haiku: an introduction to Japanese poetry
Kevin Lewis	Hebocon: Crappy Robot Workshop for Beginners
graham kitteridge	How long will it take the beat The Tomb of Horrors?
Rich Metson	How to use a moddable hacking game as a tool for digital activism: a modding workshop
Colin Rowat	icibici workshop: a £20 brain-computer interface for your phone/tablet/etc.
Haly	Intro to Basic Electronics
Katie Steckles	Introduction to Cryptic Crosswords
Catherine Flick	Introduction to Dungeons and Dragons (and other RPGs and board games)!
Ben Dornan	Introduction to Japanese Bookbinding
Victor Loux	Introduction to web accessibility
Robert Nixdorf	Knots, Ropes and Splices 101
Clare Yarnold	Learn to knit
Elger / "Stitch"	Let's monitor the government - UK Edition
Dan Nightingale	Light Painting / Light Writing
Maxine Green	Make a stove out of a recycled drinks can!
Alison Kiddle	Making Maths with Modular Origami
Kinga Kieczkowska	NFC Nail Art
Peter Jackson	Paper Circuits Workshop
Linda Polastri, Francesco Forastieri, Enrico Calore, Valentina Rolando	Papercraft Spectrometer
Matthias Braendli	Software-Defined Radio Techniques for DAB Reception and Transmission
Darren Blaxcell - rakits.co.uk	Soldering, beginner to intermediate synth kit workshop
Stephanie Pau	Speculative design of health and wellbeing in space (and other extreme environments) for future adventurers
jo franchetti	Swing dancing for engineers
Federico Fasce	Tell stories in pixels and games
Simon Bedford	The Art of the Taco
Genevieve Smith-Nunes	The Singularity: dance, digital ethics and datavis coding workshop
Richard Sewell	Titanium spork workshop
Matt Rose	UX your CV
Sam Machin	We Built a Phone Network at EMF - AMA
Kevin Lewis	Web Design for absolute beginners
Domen Puncer Kugler	Who is my phone talking to (setting up a man-in-the-middle attack)
Vicki Winter	Yarn Making

Youth Workshops

Name	Title
Noelle Aly	Accessible Music Instruments
Florian Heine	An introduction to leather stiching and embossing
Sway Grantham	Art meets Light
Ben Dornan	Bookbinding for Kids
Jeffrey Roe / Christian Kortenhorst	Bridge Building
Adam Greig	Build a rocket
Stewart Dunn	Fun Balloon Hats that Glow
Andrew Mulholland	Hacking Unicorns - Intro to programming/3D printing
Maiz-E	Kids Disco
Harm Boertien	Lego Mindstorms workshop
Kate Davis	Let's build!
Alison Kiddle	Making Maths with Modular Origami
Fiona French	Making paracord people
Andrew Mulholland	Painting with light - Build and paint with your own "Glowie"
Peter Jackson	Paper Circuits Workshop
Sarah Purdie	Pom Poms
Emma Markham	Slime Workshop
Sarah Montague	Willow wand making

Performances

Name	Title
2xAA	2xAA [electronic music crafted using Game Boys]
Scott Pitkethly	Adventures in DIY Electronic Instruments - Cutlasses performance
Capybara	Capybara Funk & Jazz
EMF Film Festival	Coraline (PG) - With supporting short 'The Present'
Lula XYZ	Digital Immigrant // Unapologetic Other // Creative Gypsy
Gasman	Gasman's ZX Spectrum Chiptune Odyssey
EMF Film Festival	Hidden Figures (PG)
Illusion O	Illusion O (Chiptunes + FX)
Lai Power	Lai Power
Amran	Multiplayer Indie Computer and Board Games
murmurmur	Murmurmur
Polyop	Polyop: An Audio-Visual Voyage
Adam Froggatt	Powerpoint Karaoke
Professor Elemental	Professor Elemental
Sam2AA, Gasman	Sam2AA VS Gasman
EMF Film Festival	Special Presentation: Hackers (12)
EMF Film Festival	Tentman: World Premiere
Vieon	Vieon - an audio-visual electronica experience