Line-up

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

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

Workshops

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

Films