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The world of electronics has changed a lot. Techniques which were once only accessible to the biggest players are now available at low volumes and at low cost. Find out how you can apply modern techniques to your next hobby project and achieve professional quality, all while making it easier to publish your designs. This talk includes: * Use of CAD/CAM tools for schematic capture and PCB design *...

More often than not, a small fortune is spent on setting up a comprehensive homebrew arsenal; various tuns, boilers and fermenters. In fact, good beer can be made with with nothing more than a coffee percolator (ok, and a few other things that people usually have lying around like a pan and a hob or means of fire). Making beer isn't something for those with deep pockets, it can be done by anyone a...

This talk will follow the progress of an MRI examination from how it is generated in the scanner, through the hospital archive to the users who need to view them. It will include: 1. Details of how MRI images are created using the primary "electromagnetic field", the variable gradient field coils, radio pulses sent and received, and processing via Fourier transforms to generate actual 2D/3D data i...

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In which I relate my adventures in generative electronic music based on chaotic strange attractors. Noises will be made with MIDI instruments through Python and Clojure, fully analogue computers and synths, and also JavaScript. I will recount why it's taking me too long, things that worked that shouldn't, things that didn't work that should, and some electronic music history and the dangers of nos...

This Is Where We Are (or TIWWA) is an dynamic digital artwork initally produced for the opening of the new Tate Modern extension in June 2016. The work takes form as an immersive and interactive algorithmic sculpture fueled by the data we collectively generate. TIWWA invites audiences into a sculptural space where they can see, hear and interact with the data of our everyday lives, contributing to...

This is a talk aimed at people interested in making or playing video games. It presents a brief history of morality systems in games before going into depth into what makes for ethically relevant games. How should games present moral choices to players? How can games capitalise on and test players' morality? How can you build good ethical experiences in games? Dr. Catherine Flick, a technology eth...

Cyborgs are "local and temporary islands of decreasing entropy" (Norbert Wiener), resolutely committed to "partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity" (Donna Haraway). Cyborgs hack their pacemakers, program their bionic limbs, and gain extra senses. My implanted NFC transponder allows me to unlock my phone with a wave of my hand, but uniquely identifies me to any nearby antenna. In this talk I pr...

A talk about how we planned and organised a hackathon with 50/50 female and male participants and at the same time learnt how to create a tech event that fits everyone's tastes. I will share our approach to organising an inclusive hackathon and share our learnings from that. My hopes are that you will get the tips, tricks and inspiration to create even better tech events suitable for all the aweso...

Cultures of abuse, harassment and intolerance are endemic in the competitive video game scene. This talk will discuss the types of trolling regularly found in competitive play, why it's a bad thing, what drives this behaviour, and what steps game designers can take to minimise it for online matchmaking. First we'll look at it from a game-mechanic perspective - that is, how to identify characterist...

Holonomic drive robots, ones that can independently drive each of their degrees of freedom, are incredibly agile. If one finds oneself having to participate in some kind of robotic jousting, such a robot is an excellent choice. I will show an example of one, which recently won a duelling contest organised by everyone's favourite small fruit based computer company, and walk through the various syst...

Talk summary: Concordia Station, Antarctica, is a spaceflight analogue, ‘White Mars’, in view of its isolation, inaccessibility, altitude, low light levels and skeleton crew. Beth has recently returned from a year-long mission there where she was working for the European Space Agency implementing research protocols to investigate the effects of this extreme environment on the physiology and psycho...

A rare view into the darker arts of locksmithing. From prison breaks to secret tools, the murky world of the criminal is explored. Lockpicking, the original hack, has been around since locks themselves. As security devices, locks, and the circumvention thereof, is a black hat's dream come true. Their methods and tools are shrouded in secrecy and folklore. Please note there is no (currently classif...

Lightning Talks! about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A brief introduction into the technology that enables mind control, how it works, what it is currently capable of and what it might be able to do in the future. A demo of the technology will be available! about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Within the UK, school computing has changed beyond recognition in the last 10 years. 2012 saw the Royal Society publish the hugely influential “Shut down or restart?” report, which has been followed by a complete curriculum turnaround… in England. What’s followed has been invigorating and challenging, but it’s not been easy. In England, skills gaps are a problem. In other parts of the UK there see...

The aerodynamics of turbomachinery, precise CAD, testing, induction motor design and the importance of prime numbers were all topics that I failed to consider when I set out to design a desk fan that looks like a jet engine. In this talk I will describe all of the fascinating things that I only discovered in retrospect as I took a donor desk fan and made something that was worse in almost every si...

How fast is it possible to complete a game like Super Mario World, if you could control every frame of input to ensure a perfect run? Tool-assisted speedruns are recorded frame-by-frame using emulators which allow slow-motion gameplay, going back and undoing mistakes, and even using bots to search through many possible combinations of inputs. By removing human limitations, these speedruns get clos...

A quick overview of the house I self built with help from builders. An overview of the decisions and technology I used and the reason for them. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

The construction and programming techniques used to make a huge-scale lighting installation, with 84,000 LEDs, 25,000 PCBs and 14,000 PIC microcontrollers. Printed circuit boards were used as mechanical structure and electrical interconnection to make large but lightweight illuminated snowflake shapes. This installation was built as part of a Christmas lighting feature in a Hong Kong shopping mall...

A rambling adventure through distraction, data vis and drone, framed around two projects turning NASA deep space data into audial and physical forms. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

USB is a horrendously complicated protocol - but it's also tremendously useful and powerful, and that's why it's dominated PC peripherals. There are hundreds of rubbish USB devices around with unsupported software and locked down pc requirements. Luckily, these devices are often actually very easy to reverse engineer. I'll briefly outline how USB works, and then describe how I reverse engineered s...

As the title suggests, I will spend this talk telling four stories about recreational maths. These stories will include how a large pile of matchboxes can be taught to play noughts and crosses, how a Raspberry Pi can be taught logic and the fastest possible way to complete a level of Pac-Man. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

There are about a dozen communications satellites orbiting the earth that were designed and built by teams of amateur enthusiasts. I'll talk about what they are, how they got there, and how you can build simple equipment to listen to their transmissions. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Based on several years of research in the area of space instrumentation, I will endeavour to explain how the imaging sensors used in smartphones, speed cameras, night vision goggles and deep space astronomical telescopes work, starting with some basic semiconductor physics, and moving up through the process engineering and architecture differences between CCD and CMOS-APS sensors, a few tricks the...