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This is a list of the talks & workshops that we're planning at EMF 2026. Not all of them are announced yet, so check back frequently.

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Talks

Danny Roberts
High-Power Rocketry on the Cheap
Joe Robinson
Tree Grafting in the Personality Disorder Wing
Charlotte Rutherford
Data Visualisation: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and the Beautiful
Amy ⚠️
Menopause.exe:running_with_limited_resources "Hacking the Hormonal System Update"
João Cabral
Teaching alt.ctrl and Learning playfulness
Robin Wilson
Lights, Spectrometer, Action!
Heidi Blanton
Reconstructing a 19th-Century Riverside Community with Historical GIS
T Stepleton
RSRE Flex: reviving an innovative, remarkably odd British operating system that almost nobody knows about
octoprog
Textile Repairs for Everyone
Bryony Lanigan
Killing the astrophysical chameleon
Adam Abraham-Jones ⚠️
Modern Facial Reconstructive Surgery - Computer design, 3D printing and custom implants.
Michael West
Who are the Hacky Racers?
Paul Battley ⚠️
What's in a number plate?
Colin Wright
Juggling: Surprisingly Mathematical
Lucy Bell
It’s the End of RSA as We Know It (And I Feel Fine): An Introduction to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Steve Mould
Human double slit experiment
Rosa Morgan-Baker and Arthur Guy
The automation wars... One marriage, two tech philosophies
Cai Jones ⚠️
Mind Your Language: How to Translate a Video Game and Why
Lee Holder / Lee Chaos ⚠️
Dubstep Carrots - your gateway vegetable to accessible music making
Kliment
Design decisions behind the Tildagon - a technical walkthrough
Jonathan Hogg
I make things in schools, you can too
Ric Berridge
Hacking a mobility scooter for features and lights
Adam Bradley
Repair Cafés: Come for the Soldering, Stay for the Stories
David Johnson
An Internet for the Solar System
Olu Niyi-Awosusi
locking in: maintenance in the age of disposable technology
James Cobbett
Shedding Light on Colour Theory – The psychology of colour perception in retail, culture and our decision-making
Tim Jacobs (aka mitxela)
The Xelatype: a journey through time and space
Matthew Wearden
So AIs are lying to us now, huh?
Gavin Hesketh ⚠️
A 3 million dollar question: how fast does a muon wobble?
Stewart Whitworth ⚠️
How to complete Half-Life 2 in 1 hour
Elizabeth Lamb
Take Better Pictures with SCIENCE!
Kestral Gaian
Tell Stories. Save the World.
Ross Atkin
Classifying Tactile Paving Crimes Using D&D Alignment
Karolina Czarna
Cognitive biases: The bugs, features and zero‑days of the human mind
Roger Dealtry
" A Farewell to PAL" The analogue colour TV system
Magz Hall
Dr Magz Hall - Expanded Radio Art
Sarah Wiseman
Scientifically ruining the interfaces in children’s shows
Julie Freeman
Furniture as a Feeling: Come and Feel the Noise
Jaeden Amero ⚠️
Sonus ex nihilo
Richard Hayler
Synths, Espionage and Cryogenics: The Strange Life of the World’s First Electronic Rockstar.
Ian Forrester ⚠️
Have you thought about your digital legacy?
Jenni ⚠️
How I became (nearly) as strong as the average untrained man
Thomas Fischer
OBD-II: Obviously Broken Design, Too... My Introduction into car-hacking
Michael Turner
PolyGen - Inside the game
Katie PF ⚠️
Breaking in to buildings with boobs
Edye Hoffmann ⚠️
The Astronaut Protocol
Ottilia Westerlund-Trew
Internet of Baby - the privacy implications of a smart nursery.
Harald Koenig
Sensing Our World: From Your Badge to the Future of Robotics
Lauren Beukes
Narrative Animals And How To Tell Better Stories
Andrew Godwin ⚠️
Mountains, Rescues, and Risks
Misha ⚠️
Phones for the Deaf
Oliver Trojak
Combi Boilers Suck, My Plumbing Pipe Dream
James Singleton
Our Family's Electrotech Journey
David Mills
Turning the EMFcamp 2018 badge into a radiotelescope
Rairii
They Forgot What Happened Last Time: hacking the Windows 365 Link
Tim Hunkin
A short history of arcades and arcade machines
Philomena Gray
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
EMF Team
Infrastructure Review
Molly Scarlet
Controlling Drones with Satellites
Lucy Rogers
Science in the Sky
Random Vlad
How NOT to make a Random Number Generator?
Charlie Bruce
Reverse Engineering 007: Nightfire
Abdullah, Graham
OSINT For Social Movements
Andrew Lindsay
LoRa from Space
Dan Pope
Photographing lightning with a DIY lightning trigger
James Hervey-Bathurst
The restoration and running of a Foden 1928 6 ton steam wagon
John Ginger
Building an MRI scanner for under £5k
Holly Rogers
Store, Carry, Forward: The Networking Genius of Pigeons
Ada & Gildfesh
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss: Breaking Minecraft's Decentralised Chat Reporting System
Gero "zweifeln" Nagel ⚠️
Why is the hacker scene so damn queer?
(a([gk]i+|bb+y) ⚠️
Endocrine Biohacking, 2 years on (Everything is on Fire Edition)
Zoe Griffiths
Shapes and Smoke Rings
muurk
My shower needs WiFi
Jo Franchetti ⚠️
Men in tech #YesAllMen
Hugh Evans
Rotundest Robin: Building a Smart Bird Feeder That Weighs Songbirds
Alexander Baxevanis
Film Is Not Dead: Live Developing on Stage
Mike Harrrison (aka mikeselectricstuff), with Daniel Hirschmann
"Don't set fire to the singer!"; Making a video jacket for a world concert tour.
Miranda
The Marvellous Mouse-powered Music box
Sam Phelps
Being an open source software project maintainer in 2026
Val Wardlaw
An Appreciation of Ecological Sanitation (or Turds for Nerds)
EMF Team
Opening Ceremony
Affelia Wibisono
Chasing Eclipses throughout the Cosmos
Ben Cartwright
Temperature in space - how and why we make consistently accurate measurements in the most inhospitable environment
Tee ⚠️
Introduction to Urban Exploration
Sam Machin
Building a tiny paging network
Hannah Joshua
Levitation, from hovercrafts to holograms
Alison Kiddle
The Hidden Maths of Knitting
Kate Devlin
Ctrl+Alt+Defeat: The big AI pushback
Sarah de Haas
Project CETI: How to Decode the Language of Other Species
Alexander Loewenthal
Will we mine that asteroid?
Caitlin P-F ⚠️
How To Debug A Human: An Engineer’s Guide To Emergency Medicine
David Farrow
Guns, Gadgets and Robots. The life of an Electro-mechanical Prop Maker
Dreamcat team
If you can dream it: building a pop-up escape room
Laurence Stant
Signalling on the London Underground
Mark McIntosh
A technician in Antarctica - Working at the end of the world
Ben from Designed To Make
The Ship in a Bottle: Printing a Hermetically Sealed Sea Scooter in One Go
Nikki
Automated Game Hacking: Adding Procedural Generation to a Classic RPG
Johanna
So - how does the Internet really work
Matt Wallace
What does a quantum computer actually do?
Geoff Robinson
Hacking APRS to warm my camper van whilst I’m still in the pub
Pippa Wady
The guidebook to successful alien contact - lessons from fostering rescue dogs
Rifke Sadleir
Building and rebuilding and rebuilding an online radio
Simon Wijckmans
North Korean agent looking for a job
Emily Selwood
So you want to go to space?
Etienne Naude
Lock Picking Robot
Ben Goodwin Self
Tango 22: The Most Haunted Railway Signal in England
Mark J Cox
Building a Mostly-Local, Mildly Judgemental Home Assistant
Sara Wilford
Middle Rage - Social Media and the War on Democracy
Jen Locke ⚠️
Spicy Antiques Roadshow: Uranium Glass and Radioactive Relics
Mariam Rashid
Boiling A Frog: Science & Ethics as TTRPG
Jessica Collier ⚠️
Mum, can I play Fortnite? Navigating online gaming safety for parents and caregivers
Andy Jenkinson
The Machine That Says No: 1-Bit Music on the ZX Spectrum
Jessica Stanley ⚠️
Flexible PCBs for you and for me: lessons learned from DIY-ing flexible electronics with artists, makers, hackers and engineers
Thomas Lake
Marine Energy: Electronics overboard!
Tryst
The Orphan Source Incident
Jim Wheale ⚠️
Cursed Objects: making interactive horror props
Sam Harley
SMolSTM: an open hardware scanning tunnelling microscope for creating single-molecule circuits
Becky Stewart
Did a Robot Knit Your Jumper?
Mike Davis
Taking the fun out of bird-watching: microphone array, beam-forming, and acoustic manifolds
Christopher Binny ⚠️
You Are Part Virus: How Biological Viruses Hack Cells
Jon Ginn
A Brief History of the QR Code, and other scannable things
Autumn Tulloch
The Hassle Hurdle: a philosophy to hack ADHD
Donna Alexandra
An SRE's Guide to Camping in Extreme Conditions
Mat Zolnierczyk
From zero to engineering superhero
Amy Jeskins
3D Modelmaking "for girls" - The overlooked engineering skill of pattern cutting.
EMF Team
Closing Ceremony
Alexander Johansson ⚠️
Why aren't we making video games for pensioners?
Charles Murray
How Network Rail Plans Train Timetables
Diane and Andrew Cook
Two Hobbyists, a Hedgehog Rescue, and an Exciting Hedgehog Tracking Project (Project HEDGE)
Alexander Belyaev
The Universe in Electromagnetic Light: From Your Phone to the Big Bang
Jon Silas
Stimulating Brains Without Touching Them: A Story of Magnets, Hype, and Open Science
Jon Kingsley ⚠️
Behind the Curtain: Inside the Hidden Tech of Live Theatre and Events

Workshops

Nottingham Hackspace (& Alifeee)
You Will Leave This Workshop With Your Own Website [Beginner's Website Making]
Soheb Mandhai
Unleashing your cosmic creativity: Using open source tools to create meaningful science visualisations
Arman Darbinyan
The Hidden Mathematics of the Rubik's Cube
Zoë Hutber
Aardman Modelling Workshops (all ages)
David Bryant
Magic The Gathering
Henning Pedersen
Build an electromagnetic field detector using PCB assembly
Ruth Scott
Make and Play - Two Catapults
Harald Koenig
Get Hands-On with the Tildagon's Motion Sensor: A MicroPython Workshop
cpresser
PCB-Design with KiCad - Beginner Workshop
Ben from Designed To Make ⚠️
Masterclass in Making Miniature Magnetic Gears
Julie, Jon, Dan and Emily Spriggs
Board Game Tent
octoprog
Weaving your own Bands and Straps made very simple
sam pikesley
How to get good at the most niche device you'll ever own
Emily
Marvels of microscopy - build your own compact microscope!
Mags Tavener ⚠️
Magnetic Mayhem: A Beginner's Guide to the World of MRI
Tim Neobard ⚠️
Make a Dragon: Leather Keyring/fob Workshop
Robin Marlow
Making dipped beeswax candles
Hannah Vardey
Embroidery for everyone: How to transform clothing you don't love into clothing you do
Damian Bramanis ⚠️
Pub Tarot Workshop: The Skeptic's Introduction to Reading Tarot
Olivia Wilson
Make a lace bookmark
Boris Nimcevic
Embroidery meets Electronics - make your blinky wearable patch
Aiden, Ollie, Rob McKinnon
Make a harmonograph drawing drop-in
Thomas Fischer
OBD-II: Own the Bus, Drive It - A Hands-On CAN Bus Workshop
Miles Gould ⚠️
Practical knot tying for geeks
Terin Stock
Play Your Own Rhythm Game Controller
Eli Chadwick
Learn to crochet and make a planet for the EMF solar system
Selin
Sun-Printed: Crafting Beautiful Cyanotypes
Ash Brockwell
Painting with Natural Earth Pigments
Derek Woodroffe
Build a Lightning Detector
Zoë Hutber
Aardman Modelling Workshops (under-16 only)
alifeee
Jailbreak your own Amazon Kindle 4: get a cheap e-reader
David Miller
Build a whole modular synthesiser!
Robert Nicoll ⚠️
Build and hack a bird box 🐦
Kirst McCarrison ⚠️
Tetra Pak Printmaking
Richard Sewell ⚠️
Titanium spork workshop
Philo
Hacking Textiles - A Practical Introduction to Mending and Altering Clothing
Susannah Fleming ⚠️
Learn (or practice) how to save a life
v buckenham
Make A Fortune Telling Machine with Downpour
FranzT
LED sewing
Emily Robertson
How to Add Pockets: for when your jumpsuit needs more pockets!
Meurig Freeman
Bath Bombs: Dissolve yourself, with glitter!
Ben Kirman
Let's turn our tents into videogames! Making games for fairy lights
🐈‍⬛ James & Georgina Heath 🐈‍⬛
🏮Paper Lantern Making for all ages🏮
Dermot Jones
Taking Back Control - first steps in claiming your Right To Repair
Andrew Hyams
Tiny Drones in the Big Top
Sam Dineley
Green Lanterns - Making LED Lanterns from Landfill Li-ion batteries
Team RobotMad
BadgeBot! Turn your EMF Camp Badge into an Autonomous Robot!
Mark Parnaby ⚠️
Introduction to leatherwork, or how I made my dragon
Lydia Monnington
Building mathematical structures with modular origami
Andries Lohmeijer ⚠️
Demystifying Microwaves, an introduction
Pez (DoodleMe) ⚠️
Beginner Shibari Workshop
Dreamcat team
Puzzle jam: Build an escape room
Rob Ives
Making Clothes Peg Automata
Josh
Foraging for Beginners
Celine Pypaert
Learn cryptography through making art!
Betty Ching
Mastering Canva & Cricut for Sticker Design
Arne
Duck Soldering Workshop (SMD soldering)
Darcy Neal
Sensing the hidden world with the EMF Explorer badge
Michel Iwaniec
Using GBDK to make 8-bit games for multiple platforms
Louis Bougeard
Karaoke
Laurence Walshe
Taste Coffee Like A Q Grader
Terin Stock
Build Your Own Rhythm Game Controller
Sophia Davis
Make Your Own Haku Lei
Gareth Smith and Susannah Fleming ⚠️
Mend Your Clothes!
Michael Turner
Build a hovercraft
Spencer Owen
Build Your Own Z80 Retro Computer Kit
Bastiaan Slee
Battlesnake workshop

Films