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Video Games are commonly in English, German, Japanese and many other languages.. but what about less spoken languages? Whilst I was working as the Lead Sound Designer on a AA game, I also ended up being the Welsh Language Lead on the project, with the help of a small team I chose the insane challenge of translating a AA video game into Welsh + Voice Acting with no prior experience in doing so and...

This talk is about how the PolyGen game works, see inside the units, a breakdown of how all the bits hang together. This is a combination of a talk and hands-on opening the units up and seeing inside them. A chance for people to ask questions, play around with the insides of the units. For those playing PolyGen this will be an opportunity to capture a special "talk only" unit. Licensed to the publ...

We love escape rooms, and it's awesome how the industry has evolved to provide ever more impressive and immersive experiences. Some of the top escape rooms today are huge warehouse-spanning installations with six-figure budgets. But what if they didn't have to be? Last year, our team had the opportunity to build a pop-up escape room. We wanted to match the creative ambition and capacity for wonder...

Following the talk "Remote controlled chaos cart" at EMF 2024, I have been inspired to do my own take on the same idea. But instead of starting with a trolley and a hoverboard, I decided to start with a mobility scooter. I have ME/CFS, and get to use a mobility scooter most of the time while out and about. But they are fundamentally boring vehicles, and could use a little adapting to be more fun....

Arcade machines have a rich history, at times at the forefront of technology, and often the most bizarre machines. Machines that delivered electric shocks (supposedly therapeutic) and working automata models of executions or hen pecked husbands (titled ‘Is Marriage worth it’). The first seaside arcade opened in Blackpool in 1894, under the newly built tower. The machines were all clockwork automat...

Markus Hess wird aus erste Hand über seine Rolle als KGB-Hacker, die technischen Möglichkeiten und Methoden jener Zeit, seine Motivation sowie die Lehren für heutige IT-Sicherheits- und Resilienzfragen berichten. In den späten 1980er-Jahren war Markus Hess maßgeblich an einer der bedeutendsten Spionage- und Hackeraktivitäten des Kalten Krieges beteiligt. Als Teil der sogenannten KGB-Hack-Affäre ve...

I have spent my career working as an electrically biased technician supporting scientific and engineering research. In 2022/23 a post-COVID malaise led me to put in a speculative application with The British Antarctic Survey. Sometime later I was flying into Rothera Research Station, Antarctica. Before arriving, I had dreams of being surrounded by Antarctic wildlife such as penguins, seals and wha...

1980: Royal Signals and Radar Establishment researchers realise Flex, a mould-breaking, comprehensively alternative vision of computing. Features: - All-hypertext interface (oddly never described thus) - Allusions to ancient Egyptian orthography - Unforgeable pointers for security - Write-once filesystem with nameless files (which you didn't mind) - Implementation in the (infamously) complicated l...

Watch as I develop a roll of black-and-white film live on stage, taking it from exposed film to visible negatives and scanned digital images in real time. The roll will contain photos shot around EMF earlier that day, with a volunteer taking the final frames live during the session. A lot of people think photographic chemistry is effectively magic, but developing film is really just a sequence of...

How are train timetables put together? Find out how Network Rail, the organisation responsible for running and maintaining Britain's rail network, fits together different kinds of trains into a single timetable, and how the competing demands of freight trains, stopping trains and express passenger trains are weighed to allocate limited space on the tracks. In this talk I will draw on my own experi...

This is shape, but not as you've seen it before! Join Zoe in this engaging, family talk to explore the curious world of shape. We'll be dipping our toes into the mind-bending world of topology (with ideas for activities you can try at home), exploring how geometry changes when you're not on a flat surface (with the audience taking part in a fun trick), and learn the maths and science behind an exc...

Pigeons - what are they good for? Quite a lot, actually. In this talk, we'll be winging it together as we look at the history of moving information around via feathernet connection, homing in on how pigeons work, and (bird)seeding ideas for why we might still need pigeon post in future. On our journey, we’ll look at… - heroic pigeons of the past and the people who fancied them - how pigeons work,...

Auf dem Hackover 25 hatten wir uns das Jahr 2024 im Kontext des globalen Klimawandels angeschaut. Der Vortrag endete mit der Aussicht, dass im Jahr 2025 das häufig medial beschriebene 1,5 Grad Ziel konsequent überschritten bleibt und wir aktuell auf einem brennenden Pulverfass sitzen. Der Talk stellt eine aktualisierte Version des Talks vom letztem Jahr dar. Was habe ich dieses Mal vor: * wir ordn...

Content Warning: mid-surgery photographs, blood How can modern technology help with removing a large facial tumour and transplant the patient's leg bone to their face to replace their missing jaw? Come to this talk and find out! I am an Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon and we are the interface between medicine and dentistry, we have to be qualified as both a doctor and a dentist and operate on the f...

This humorous talk, needing no prior knowledge of rocketry or space travel, will take a walk through different ways humans have considered getting to space. From things that actually work, to the things that could theoretically work if you ignore things like safety or the rest of humanity, via things that should work but only on other celestial objects. With pictures, diagrams, and increasingly ab...

This talk is about my personal experience in assembling and testing the satellite payloads as well as working with LoRa based satellites. I have so far assembled and tested 10 payloads that are installed in 6 satellites currently orbiting the earth. More payloads have been assembled and tested but not yet launched. The talk will include plenty of photographs and a couple of short videos covering t...

We have notations for music, language, and dance, but when a notation was developed for juggling there were some surprising discoveries. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/60-juggling-surprisingly-mathematical

Get a house they said, it'll be fun they said. Well, not on a icy February morning when you step into the shower and it runs ice cold, it isn't. Modern UK plumbing is based around combi-boilers, which is the plumbing equivalent of flying a fighter jet with no ejection seat - when things go wrong, oh boy do they go wrong. They provide a lovely standardized plumbing system in a box, greatly reducing...

What exactly is involved in making garments, costumes, pattern cutting and sewing? And why won't you see it on the curriculum of an engineering or technology degree? How has pattern cutting changed throughout history and why do a lot of people see it as 'women's work'? What's craft, what's art, what's engineering? What does a toy gorilla come to life really look like? Can I have a life sized, scre...

Fahrrad schrauben aber wo anfangen? Was für Werkzeug braucht man dafür? Was kann man denn da gut selber machen? Ist das alles schwer? In dem Vortrag stelle ich so ein paar basics zum selber schrauben vor. Einfach ein paar sachen die ich gerne gewusst hätte bevor ich damit angefangen habe Aktuell schraube ich schon an meinem dritten rad hobby mäßig rum. Vieles pfusch und uninformiert aber es macht...

Stories shape the future. The stories we grow up with influence what we believe is possible, who we think we’re allowed to become, and what kind of world we imagine ourselves living in. But storytelling isn’t limited to books, films, or television. Every interface tells a story. Every layout nudges human behaviour. Every hack provokes a reaction. Everything we build changes the way people experien...

What happens when the lights go out, the flames shoot up, and the performer flies over the audience? None of it is magic - it’s a remarkably deep stack of engineering, software, and controlled chaos, and almost none of it is visible to the audience. This talk pulls back the curtain on the technology powering professional theatre and live events - from West End productions to outdoor festivals. We’...

A presentation explaining inner workings of the source engine, and how they are exploited by speedrunners use to try to finish the video game Half-Life 2 in the fastest time possible. The source engines other-worldly physics provides a fascinating and mathematically defined world that speedrunners have come to understand and manipulate in ways that were never intended by the creators of the game....

It started when I stupidly promising my 8 year old that if the mouse brought in by my cat made through the night, we could keep it. It ended with a beautiful rendition of Toccata in D played solely by the rising star Mr Cheesey and the contraption I attached to his wheel. In this talk, I’ll cover the ideas behind the plans, the designing and development of the music box wheel, the challenges of ac...

Zero Trust ist so ein neues Ding unter dem Schlagwort "Sicherheitsarchitektur". Wie genau dieser viel gehypte Kratzbaum aussieht, erfahrt ihr hier. Google macht's, Microsoft macht's, gegen Claude Mythos soll's sogar helfen: Zero Trust scheint das Ding zu sein, wenn es um Sicherheitsarchitektur geht. Was Zero Trust eigentlich ist und umfasst, was dadurch besser und was vielleicht auch schlechter wi...