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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

Alison Kiddle
The Hidden Maths of Knitting
Christopher Binny ⚠️
You Are Part Virus: How Biological Viruses Hack Cells
Katie PF ⚠️
Breaking in to buildings with boobs
Ric Berridge
Hacking a mobility scooter for features and lights
Charles Murray
How Network Rail Plans Train Timetables
Geoff Robinson
Hacking APRS to warm my camper van whilst I’m still in the pub
Philomena Gray
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
Miranda
The Marvellous Mouse-powered Music box
EMF Team
Infrastructure Review
Bryony Lanigan
Killing the astrophysical chameleon
Ottilia Westerlund-Trew
Internet of Baby - the privacy implications of a smart nursery.
Gero "zweifeln" Nagel ⚠️
Why is the hacker scene so damn queer?
Andrew Lindsay
LoRa from Space
Gavin Hesketh
A 3 million dollar question: how fast does a muon wobble?
Stewart Whitworth ⚠️
How to complete Half-Life 2 in 1 hour
Ian Forrester ⚠️
Have you thought about your digital legacy?
Etienne Naude
Lock Picking Robot
Nikki
Automated Game Hacking: Adding Procedural Generation to a Classic RPG
octoprog
Textile Repairs for Everyone
Tom Appleyard
Introduction to Urban Exploration
Andrew Godwin ⚠️
Mountains, Rescues, and Risks
Ross Atkin
Classifying Tactile Paving Crimes Using D&D Alignment
Affelia Wibisono
Chasing Eclipses throughout the Cosmos
Johanna
So - how does the Internet really work
Kinga Kieczkowska-Gray
GardenHQ: a DIY harvest tracking system
Simon Wijckmans
North Korean agent looking for a job
Kate Devlin
Ctrl+Alt+Defeat: The big AI pushback
Roger Dealtry
" A Farewell to PAL" The analogue colour TV system
Tim Hunkin
A short history of arcades and arcade machines
Mike Davis
Taking the fun out of bird-watching: microphone array, beam-forming, and acoustic manifolds
Dreamcat team
If you can dream it: building a pop-up escape room
Heidi Blanton
Reconstructing a 19th-Century Riverside Community with Historical GIS
Matthew Wearden
So AIs are lying to us now, huh?
Hugh Evans
Rotundest Robin: Building a Smart Bird Feeder That Weighs Songbirds
Mark McIntosh
A technician in Antarctica - Working at the end of the world
Thomas Lake
Marine Energy: Electronics overboard!
Jessica Collier ⚠️
Mum, can I play Fortnite? Navigating online gaming safety for parents and caregivers
Jim Wheale
Cursed Objects: making interactive horror props
Jon Ginn
A Brief History of the QR Code, and other scannable things
EMF Team
Closing Ceremony
João Cabral
Teaching alt.ctrl and Learning playfulness
Mariam Rashid
Boiling A Frog: Science & Ethics as TTRPG
Amy Jeskins
3D Modelmaking "for girls" - The overlooked engineering skill of pattern cutting.
Holly Rogers
Store, Carry, Forward: The Networking Genius of Pigeons
Laurence Stant
Signalling on the London Underground
Sam Phelps
Being an open source software project maintainer in 2026
Sam Harley
SMolSTM: an open hardware scanning tunnelling microscope for creating single-molecule circuits
Dr Jen Locke
Spicy Antique Roadshow: Uranium glass and other radioactive relics!
Jessica Stanley
Flexible PCBs for you and for me: lessons learned from DIY-ing flexible electronics with artists, makers, hackers and engineers
Mat Zolnierczyk
From zero to engineering superhero
Cai Jones ⚠️
Mind Your Language: How to Translate a Video Game and Why
James Hervey-Bathurst
The restoration and running of a Foden 1928 6 ton steam wagon
Lucy Bell
It’s the End of RSA as We Know It (And I Feel Fine): An Introduction to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Andrew Perry ⚠️
After the Last Logoff
John Ginger
Building an MRI scanner for under £5k
Charlie Bruce
Reverse Engineering 007: Nightfire
Mark J Cox
Building a Mostly-Local, Mildly Judgemental Home Assistant
Joe Robinson
Tree Grafting in the Personality Disorder Wing
Sarah de Haas
Project CETI: How to Decode the Language of Other Species
Olu Niyi-Awosusi
locking in: maintenance in the age of disposable technology
Karolina Czarna
Cognitive biases: The bugs, features and zero‑days of the human mind
Himanshu Anand
The 90 day disclosure policy is dead
Val Wardlaw
An Appreciation of Ecological Sanitation (or Turds for Nerds)
Edye Hoffmann ⚠️
The Astronaut Protocol
Mike Harrrison (aka mikeselectricstuff), with Daniel Hirschmann
"Don't set fire to the singer!"; Making a video jacket for a world concert tour.
Zoe Griffiths
Shapes and Smoke Rings
Ada
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss: Breaking Minecraft's Decentralised Chat Reporting System
Philip Dolan
Quantum computing - what is it, and why should you care?
Andy Jenkinson
The Machine That Says No: 1-Bit Music on the ZX Spectrum
Jo Franchetti ⚠️
Men in tech #YesAllMen
Jenni ⚠️
How I became (nearly) as strong as the average untrained man
David Farrow
Guns, Gadgets and Robots. The life of an Electro-mechanical Prop Maker
Magz Hall
Dr Magz Hall - Expanded Radio Art
Emily Selwood
So you want to go to space?
Diane Cook
Two Hobbyists, a Hedgehog Rescue, and an Exciting Hedgehog Tracking Project
Dan Pope
Photographing lightning with a DIY lightning trigger
Ben Cartwright
Temperature in space - how and why we make consistently accurate measurements in the most inhospitable environment
Jon Silas
Stimulating Brains Without Touching Them: A Story of Magnets, Hype, and Open Science
Pippa Wady
The guidebook to successful alien contact - lessons from fostering rescue dogs
Molly Scarlet
Controlling Drones with Satellites
Lucy Rogers
Science in the Sky
Adam Abraham-Jones ⚠️
Modern Facial Reconstructive Surgery - Computer design, 3D printing and custom implants.
Misha ⚠️
Phones for the Deaf
Rifke Sadleir
Building and rebuilding an online radio
Kliment
Design decisions behind the Tildagon - a technical walkthrough
Tim Jacobs
The Xelatype: a journey through time and space
Gareth Coleman
Repairing 3500 toasters, air fryers and vacuum cleaners - what I've learned so far
Elizabeth Lamb
Take Better Pictures with SCIENCE!
Alexander Baxevanis
Film Is Not Dead: Live Developing on Stage
Charlotte Rutherford
Data Visualisation: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and the Beautiful
Jon Kingsley ⚠️
Behind the Curtain: Inside the Hidden Tech of Live Theatre and Events
Michael West
Who are the Hacky Racers?
Julie Freeman
Furniture as a Feeling: Come and Feel the Noise
Alexander Johansson
Why aren't we making video games for pensioners?
Harald Koenig
Sensing Our World: From Your Badge to the Future of Robotics
Jaeden Amero ⚠️
Sonus ex nihilo
Rosa Morgan-Baker
The automation wars... One marriage, two tech philosophies
James Cobbett
Shedding Light on Colour Theory – The psychology of colour perception in retail, culture and our decision-making
Colin Wright
Juggling: Surprisingly Mathematical
James Singleton
Our Family's Electrotech Journey
Sarah Wiseman
Scientifically ruining the interfaces in children’s shows
Jonathan Hogg
I make things in schools, you can too
T Stepleton
RSRE Flex: reviving an innovative, remarkably odd British operating system that almost nobody knows about
Thomas Fischer
OBD-II: Obviously Broken Design, Too... My Introduction into car-hacking
Ben from Designed To Make
The Ship in a Bottle: Printing a Hermetically Sealed Sea Scooter in One Go
Abdullah
OSINT For Social Movements
Danny Roberts
High-Power Rocketry on the Cheap
Lauren Beukes
Narrative Animals And How To Tell Better Stories
Steve Mould
Human double slit experiment
Lee Holder / Lee Chaos
Dubstep Carrots - your gateway vegetable to accessible music making
Rairii
They Forgot What Happened Last Time: hacking the Windows 365 Link
Robin Wilson
Lights, Spectrometer, Action!
Michael Zbyszynski
Introduction to Immersive Audio
Amy ⚠️
Menopause.exe:running_with_limited_resources "Hacking the Hormonal System Update"
David Johnson
An Internet for the Solar System
Kestral Gaian
Tell Stories. Save the World.
Alexander Belyaev
The Universe in Electromagnetic Light: From Your Phone to the Big Bang
Ben Goodwin Self
Tango 22: The Most Haunted Railway Signal in England
Donna Alexandra
An SRE's Guide to Camping in Extreme Conditions
Alexander Loewenthal
Will we mine that asteroid?
Becky Stewart
Did a Robot Knit Your Jumper?
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Endocrine Biohacking, 2 years on (Everything is on Fire Edition)
Oliver Trojak
Combi Boilers Suck, My Plumbing Pipe Dream
EMF Team
Opening Ceremony
Sam Machin
Building a tiny paging network
David Mills
Turning the EMFcamp 2018 badge into a radiotelescope
Autumn Tulloch
The Hassle Hurdle: a philosophy to hack ADHD
muurk
My shower needs WiFi
Caitlin P-F ⚠️
How To Debug A Human: An Engineer’s Guide To Emergency Medicine
Richard Hayler
Synths, Espionage and Cryogenics: The Strange Life of the World’s First Electronic Rockstar.
Hannah Joshua
Levitation, from hovercrafts to holograms
Paul Battley ⚠️
What's in a number plate?
Matt Wallace
What does a quantum computer actually do?
Adam Bradley
Repair Cafés: Come for the Soldering, Stay for the Stories
Random Vlad
How NOT to make a Random Number Generator?
Tryst
The Orphan Source Incident
Sara Wilford
Middle Rage - Social Media and the War on Democracy

Workshops

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

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