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Members of the EMF infrastructure and NOC teams will speak about how we brought power and Internet to the field, explain some of the challenges faced, and share some statistics. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Last EMF we made a film. This EMF we'd like to share it with everyone Probably best done at night to avoid sunlight blowing out the colours. We will upload to youtube after the premiere. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Amateur radio had historically been a hobby of makers and experimenters but had fallen out as alternative hobbies suited the general enthusiasts' desires. We are surrounded by devices communicating wirelessly and we’re now wanting to take control and build upon that framework. This is a general presentation not requiring knowledge in amateur radio or electronics, covering things from hobbyist cult...

Sound is an incredibly important sense in our day-to-day lives, but how much can we believe what we hear? In thi talk, Ben will lead a whistle-stop tour of some mind bending sound-based illusions, and dig in to how they work, and what they tell us about the brain. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Listening to the structure of the universe. I have a background in Radio Astronomy (at Jodrell Bank) and in electronic music. I'll be mashing up ideas, playing sounds & music, looking at the evolution of the language of music and science, and how we might use cosmological models in exploring sonic spaces. http://www.binarydust.org for more... about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

How the Tilda MkPi was created, what went wrong, and how it got into your hands. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

At Delft University of Technology we are developing a six legged robot inspired by a beetle. Instead of building complex and expensive robots, we build simple and cheap robots. This allows us to construct a lot of robots and use them as a swarm. Just like computer engineers found out that some problems (e.g. travelling sales man) can be solved by copying behaviour seen in nature, the same thing ap...

Freifunk is a volunteer operated wireless network offering city-wide intranet with local services and also anonymous internet access for free. 34,000+ nodes are currently available in more than 300 communities, mostly throughout Germany, but also beyond. Anybody can use it and anybody is encouraged to contribute to the network, whether it be by setting up nodes, providing services, or whatever the...

A talk on the use of automated facial recognition (AFR) systems in the UK. Alas, there currently exists no regulation of AFR in the UK... but its use by British police forces is on the up. Despite the warnings of independent oversight bodies (and court rulings against the police collection of custody images) the government has continued to underwhelm in its response to yet another State capacity f...

I had one question for Larry Ellison. ''In 20 years, do you think the global database is going to exist, and will it be run by Oracle?’' ''I do think it will exist, and I think it is going to be an Oracle database,'' he replied. ''And we're going to track everything.'' Jeffrey Rosen, NY Times Magazine, 2002. It’s 2022 and only the genomic England children get into university. Country of birth and...

Claude Elwood Shannon was a pioneering mathematician and engineer, of paramount importance in our digital revolution. 2016 sees the centenary of his birth. Whilst he is most widely known as the "father of information theory", the extent of his influence across computer science, physics and engineering is incredible. This talk aims to mark his centenary with an exploration of the man, his work and...

While we all like to make, modify and re-appropriate technology, some of us like to break it for, um, fun and profit. As a professional penetration tester (my job is to break my employer's devices before they release them) I will explain how I go about finding vulnerabilities in IoT devices. I will look at hardware, software and cryptographic attacks that can give us root on our toys. Rather than...

A brief overview of one hackers journey taking the best of modern automotive technology and retrofitting it all into a car from the same era as the Intel 4004. Taking a 1974 Ford Escort Mk1 with minimal functionality and bolting on electronic fuel injection, turbochargers, digital instrument clusters, CAN-bus networks, Raspberry Pis and ultimately the ‘cloud’. Touching on multiple engineering disc...

Some ridiculous mathematical demonstrations and projects Katie's worked on recently. This is followed by a maths card tricks workshop: https://www.emfcamp.org/line-up/2016/266 about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

There are several mathematical results and theorems concerning electoral processes. I'll cover the two most important theorems in voting theory: May's theorem, which shows the strength of first-past-the-post in the setting of a two-candidate election, and Arrow's theorem, which shows a weakness of all voting systems for elections with more than two candidates. I'll discuss some applications of the...

When it comes to cyber security, everyone always talks about the biggest and baddest APT mega cyber attack. But what about the little guy, the underdog the... false positive? This light hearted talk is aimed at a general audience, but gives real lessons for those working in infosecurity. We will look at some real false positives and find some serious reasons why you should spare some love for thos...

The talk presents examples from the experience of two researchers dealing with the design and craft of technology for performing sound through instruments or installations. Using electronic components, microcontrollers and other sensing devices we will present our findings in the field of real time sensing and processing for aesthetic purposes. Examples include the design of expressive instruments...

A talk about my Music library project [http://github.com/Godley/Music-Library], a multi platform app written for my final year project as part of my BSc Computer Science degree last year. The app is intended to be an open and extendible platform for organising sheet music (the notation for classical music given to players in an orchestra or similar), a problem which hasn't really been solved by ot...

... and what does that tell us? Look forward to an hour of comedy exploring how Physics links space stations and roundabouts, street lamps and exoplanets, and of course the universe and a lightbulb. Day-to-day experiences will take on new life as Michael's quirky take on them reveals the structure underneath, and you may find that you know more Physics than you thought! Michael has performed at Ca...

Everyone is hacking everything. Everything is vulnerable. Your site, your users, even you. Are you worried about this? You should be! Don't worry, I'm not trying to scare you (that much). We have plenty of safeguards against attempts on our applications' user data. We all (hopefully) recognise Two Factor Auth as one of those safeguards, but what actually goes on under the hood of 2FA? We'll take a...

A description of the equipment needed to receive live video direct from the space station and my adventure in setting up the equipment and helping with video conferences between the space station and school kids. Anyone can do this once they get the tech working. I will also show videos received from space. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Electronics have transformed our lives beyond recognition but there could be radical change around the corner with plastic electronics. Join engineer and British Science Association Award Lecturer Radu Sporea to discover how these new materials and unconventional devices could be more efficient, cheaper and easier to manufacture than existing technologies. This will be a short talk followed by inf...

Come to this talk if you want to see how I built my own wearable camera out of a raspberry pi and a backpack and how I took it on holiday when travelling through Europe. I'll focus on the the building process of hacking it together along with the various pitfalls which comes along with every project. The project eventually became a pretty big success with it floating around on the first page of Ha...

The Fail Map project shows security problems at governments on a geographical map. The goal is to improve safety of exchanging sentive information with parties that are required to process this. We do this by providing a geographical map of these entities and showing where and what problems are present, why they matter and how to solve them. A pilot in the Netherlands resulted in the securing of o...

A run through of the development of visual effects in film, from the earliest camera tricks and chemical processing to the latest techniques including motion capture and photoreal rendering. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab