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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

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

Workshops

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

Films