Electromagnetic Field 2016

EMF 2016 was held between 2016-08-05 and 2016-08-07 at Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey, UK.

Below you can find a list of talks and workshops. You can find more memories from EMF 2016 on the Internet Archive.

Main Stages

Name	Title
Matthew Ireland	100 years of Shannon -- the man, his work and his legacy
Phil Nash	2FA, WTF?
Henry Segerman	3D printed sculptures of 4D things
Chris Lynas	3d Printing the World's Most Pointless Desk Fan
Cat Harris	A brief history of effects in film
PJ Evans	A Brief, Incomplete, Slightly Biased, and Mostly Fact-Checked History of the UK Computer Industry
Dan Weatherill	A call to arms - let's hack USB devices, it's mostly easier than you think
Dave Rowntree	A hacker's guide to satellites
Alex Bolton	A mathematical view of voting systems
Gavin Starks	Acoustic Cosmology
Katy Moe	APIs for cyborgs
Tim Lossen	Apocalypse Later
Matthew Ireland	Asynchronous or Analogue Methods for Computation
Sam Fidler	Beer for Everyone
Chris Binny	Biological Computation
Matt Smith	Black Hat Locksmithing
Tobias McBride	Blood, Sweat & Carbon: Our Solar Car
Manoj Nathwani	Building a wearable camera
Grigorios Fragkos	Can you really hack an airplane? (myths & truths)
Russell Couper	CANUTE, The worlds first working refreshable multiline braille display
Dan Smith	Car Hacking - Back to the future 1970’s style.
Giles Greenway	Chaotic Music: Oblique Strategies Against Humanity
Jen Persson, defenddigitalme	Come and play: Collect ‘em all? Tech, fundamental rights and framing our future. Fact or fiction?
GB8EMF Amateur Radio Station	Connecting computers together over 1,000s miles without using the Internet
Michelle D'israeli	Cyber security and the joy of the false positive
Jessica Barker	Cyber Security Myths and Monsters: how to change behaviours for the better
Sarah Gold	Design for consumer rights, now
Alessia Milo and Christian Heinrichs	Designing and performing future instruments
Dave Harvey	Digital Medical Imaging - from scanner to screen.
Jonty Wareing	EMF 2016 Closing Ceremony
Will Hargrave, Arjan Koopen, David Croft	EMF 2016 Infrastructure Review
Jonty Wareing	EMF 2016 Opening Ceremony
Elger "Stitch" Jonker	Fail Map, visualizing security fail at trusted parties for your protection
Matthew Scroggs	Four Stories about Recreational Maths
andre	Freifunk - Free and Open Wireless Community Networks
Branden Faulls	Friday Latening Talks
Piet De Vaere	From transistor to processor
Geek Showoff	GEEK SHOWOFF
Dan Jenkins	Getting Physical with Web Bluetooth in the Browser
hannah dee	Getting the kids on board: tales from 10 years of schools outreach in technology
Dr Lucy Rogers	Hacking Robot Dinosaurs
Jo Pearce	Hacking Your Head : Managing Information Overload
Ben Dornan	Here, hear: Sound-based illusions
Gavan Fantom	Hobby electronics like a pro
Tom Oinn	Holonomic robots, and why you should build one
Rory Gallagher	Home made hacks to fully registered maker charity.
Russell Couper	How I built my diesel powered motorcycle.
Freakyclown (@__freakyclown__)	How I used to rob banks (and other fun stories)
Michael Conterio	How is the Universe Like A Lightbulb?
moko/zakx	How to make your own wearable color organ dress
Caroline Arkenson	How we created a hackathon with 50/50 female and male participants
Sam Machin	I never knew SMS could do that.
Jessica Rose	Impostor Syndrome and Individual Competence
Kev Sheldrake	Inside Our Toys - How to Hack Into an Embedded Device
Rebecca Kleinberger	Inside the MIT Media Lab
Jeff Homer	Internet of Things with MATLAB and Raspberry Pi
James Macfarlane	It's Only Rocket Science
Katie Steckles	Katie Steckles does some maths
Jos Weyers	Key Impressioning
Steven Goodwin	LEGO Punk - Silly things to do with LEGO
Eireann Leverett	Lightning Talks
James Merlin	Magic: Tricks, puzzles, or illusions?
Tim Burrell-Saward	Mars, the Bringer of Wub
Alexander J. Martin	Meatspace Surveillance
Nicholas Tollervey	MicroPython: What is it? What does it do? Why is it suddenly everywhere?
James Miller	Mind Control - What is really possible with technology and the power of your mind?
Catherine Flick	Morality in video games: when it's not just a game
John McEntee	My self built eco house.
Michael Ossmann	My Ubertooth Year
Henry Cooke	Numbers Stations: Cold War, short waves
Rich Metson	'Off Grid' : a game about circumvention tech and hacking
Harald Welte	Osmocom - Open Source Mobile Communications
Calum	Penetrating Pandora: Dismantling Dangerous Devices
Dan Weatherill	photons to electrons: how imaging sensors work from quantum mechanics up
Laurie James	Ragequit! Game design principles for better online communities.
Ryan Sayre	Rebooting a Hobby: How Modern Digital Comms are Reviving Amateur Radio
Daniel Cussen	Receiving live video from the Space station
Dan Hagon	Riddles on Rails
Philip Potter	Saving milliseconds and wasting hours: a survey of tool-assisted speedrunning
Sarah Wiseman	Scientifically ruining the interfaces in movies
Kate Devlin	Sex! Robots! Sex Robots!
Elger "Stitch" Jonker	SHA2017
Scary Boots	Shape-changing in nature and puny human efforts to emulate it
Jon Butterworth	Smashing Physics - latest news from CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Igor Nikolic	Socio-technical evolution for hackers
Caroline Graham	Sustainable open source?
Alia Sheikh & Cat Harris	Tentman: The story so far...
Charlotte Godley	The automated Sheet Music Librarian
Radu Sporea	The coming of age of plastic electronics
Jonty Wareing	The EMF 2016 Badge
David Hulton	The Final Nail in DES's Coffin
Katie Eagleton	The history and future of books
Dragica Kahlina	The Red String
Sophie Scott	The science of laughter
Simon Singh	The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets
Stuart Robinson	The story behind $50SAT, a new approach to Amateur satellite design which became the world’s smallest operational satellite, built for £125 in a garden shed.
Chris Hunt	This Is Where We Are: A TIWWA @ Tate Modern Postmortem
MIke Harrison	Using printed circuit boards to make snowflakes.
Emma O'Sullivan	What even is a "maker"? How we see ourselves and how other people see us
Beth Healey	WhiteSpace
stephen coates	X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone
Piet De Vaere	Zebro: building a six legged robot

Workshops

Name	Title
Jame Nixon	35mm pinhole camera building workshop/photo walk
Andrew Gordon	A Fresh Look At Mental Health
Colin Rowat	a smartphone brain-computer interface workshop
Dan Weatherill	backyard optics
James Smith	Building an open source political platform
Matthew Little	DIY Solar Charger Workshop
Catherine Flick	Dungeons and Dragons & board games open session
Rebecca Kleinberger	Eggshell carving
Jess Rose	Enter-tent-ment karaoke
Steven Gravell	Go workshop and open discussion
Libby Miller, Richard Sewell, John Hawkes-Reed	Having Daft Ideas
Jim MacArthur	Hebocon (Low-tech robot fight)
Michael Straeubig	Imperfect VR Workshop
Ben Dornan	Introduction to Japanese Bookbinding
Ryan Alexander	Introduction to Mixology - making the Old Fashioned cocktail
Linda Sandvik	Kite mapping
Linda Sandvik	Kite Mapping Part 2
Kate Bolin	Learn to Knit!
Amy Mather	LED Cards
Richard Sewell	Make your own titanium spork
Katie Steckles	Maths card tricks
Sai	Meditation for Hackers
Akito van Troyer	Musification
Peter Jackson	Paper Circuits
Ben Foxall	Realtime Web
Harald Welte	Running your own cellular network using OpenBSC & Co
Jeffrey Roe	Skull Radio Workshop
Kliment	Surface-mount electronics (SMD) assembly for terrified beginners
Jo Franchetti	Swing Dancing for Engineers
KRN & MX & OLF	The Artists guide to the Deep Learning Galaxy (for any level of experience)
Harald Welte	Tracing (U)SIM card communication using Osmocom SIMtrace
Vicki Winter	Yarn making 101