Electromagnetic Field 2022

EMF 2022 was held between 2022-06-02 and 2022-06-05 at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Eastnor, Herefordshire, UK.

Below you can find a list of talks and workshops. You can find more memories from EMF 2022 on the Internet Archive.

Main Stages

Name	Title
Sean Lucent	1-hour* Computing Degree
Chris Stubbs & Dom Tag	2500 nerds, one pathetic robot
Caroline Zahnd	3615 Love by PAMAL_Group
John Dalziel	A brief history of Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time
Anthony Williams	A Crash Course In Railway Safety
Kara Langford	A journey through philosophy: exploring metaphysics via memes and a sprinkling of pop culture.
eph	A Life Without Stickers is Possible But Useless
Lee V	Adventures with Home Energy Monitoring (with a Raspberry Pi & many Arduinos)
Daniel Jones	Aerials: Generating music from network systems
Alex McLean	Algorithmic patterns - a long history
Ella Barrington	An engineer's guide to grief
Zammis Clark	An Evil Maid's Dream: Windows Boot Security was Broken Anyway
Cutlasses (Scott Pitkethly)	An introduction to building your own digital audio effects
Kim M	Anatomy 102: Is that normal!?!
Dan Nixon	Announcing the EMF schedule like it's the 80s
Ottilia Westerlund	Anti-surveillance Knitting
Eugénie von Tunzelmann	Art, science, creativity, black holes, roller coasters and robot xylophones
May	asdkfldsalkasdf: Keysmashes, Sexuality and Mathematical Randomness
Richard Hayler	Astro Pi Mark II - how to send a Raspberry Pi from a factory in Wales to the International Space Station
James Sutton	Automated Science at Sea - The Mayflower Autonomous Ship
James Bruton, Matt Denton, Ruth Amos	Being YouTubers!
Matthew Harrold	Building a copper telephone network at EMF
Reuben Binns	Building a Home-Made Enigma Machine
ben Everard	Building weird games controllers.
Peter Thorley	Captain Proton's Ukulele for Dummies
EMF Team	Closing Ceremony
Matt Carroll	Computational Alchemy
Pita Arreola	Computer Art from the 1960s until now
Dave Cranmer	Dave Cranmer talks about nervoussquirrel.com and how to get paid to make things
Tyler Ward	Demystifying the USB Type-C connector
David Croft et al	EMF 2022 Infrastructure Review
David MacIver	Emotions, what's up with those?
Shannon Hoover and Sydney Pratte	Fashion-tech Advice from a Farm Boy and a Comp Sci Geek
Reality Crossley & Alex Shaw	Field-FX Demo Show
Laura Massey	Fill Your Home with Obsolete Technology: Rare Book Collecting 101
Gavin Starks	Fixing climate change: finance, science, policy & data
Tom O’Connor and Hugh Wells	Fluroclock - the clock made from fluorescent tubes
Hannah Cameron	From Parsnips to Palm Trees: the Economics of Stardew Valley
Simon Singh	From Theorems to Serums, From Cryptology to Cosmology ... and The Simpsons
Robin Marlow	Ghost in the machine or monkey with a typewriter—generating titles for Christmas research articles in The BMJ using artificial intelligence
Ryan Castellucci	Hacking Gender: Transition À La Carte
Pip Thornton	Hacking Google with Poetry – what are words worth anyway?
Dave Rowntree	Hacking the Radio Spectrum with GNU Radio
Hugh Wells	Hacking train tickets for fun, but not for profit
James Macfarlane	Hovering Rockets
Matt Gray	How I Fight the Doomscroll and Get Out of the Social Media Refresh Loop
Caroline Graham	How I set up a CoderDojo and Started a Coding Community in my Town
Russell Couper	How I'm building my monstrous electric motorcycle from hacked scrap EV & Hybrid parts.
Alistair MacDonald	How not to start a Hackspace
Tony Goacher	How to get money from fruit machines with and without cheating.
Jonathan Hogg	I gave up investment banking to become a digital artist
Emma McDonald	Improve your Memory ( in your head not in your computer)
Phil Pemberton	Inside Datatrak: resurrecting a radio navigation network
Crypt	Introduction to the Demoscene
Lorna Mitchell	Landscape of Open Source Databases
DAVID JOHNSON	Launching a Rocket, Suspended by a Balloon (Rockoon), from the Stratosphere
Robin Wilson	Learning from accidents: an introduction to railway signalling in the UK
Caspar Addyman	Life lessons from Laughing Babies and Murderous Philosophers.
Lightning Talks	Lightning Talks Friday
Lightning Talks	Lightning Talks Saturday
Lightning Talks	Lightning Talks Sunday
eta	London Underground open data: much more than you ever wanted to know
Matthew Scroggs	Machine learning with a pile of matchboxes
Matt Mapleston	Making in Margate
Jonny Austin	Making technology deliberately distinguishable from magic: designing the BBC micro:bit
Jennifer Herchenroeder	Material Science: Steel for BattleBots (and Robot Wars, of course)
Genevieve Smith-Nunes & Alex Shaw	ME++ The Data Within - data ethics, ballet, brainwaves, and AR
David Buchanan	Modern Cryptography from Scratch, in Scratch
Kate Devlin	Not another sex robot talk!
Bob (on behalf of team:badge)	oh heck another badge talk
Richard Sewell	On taking your daft ideas seriously (or, how we accidentally made an art robot business)
Ian B Dunne	On the Fringe of Science. Volume 1
Gustavo El Khoury Seoane	Open Garden, Mesh networks, and how it helped me protest safer
EMF Team	Opening Ceremony
Aisha Nasir	Opening the Door for the Globally Excluded in Tech
Julie Freeman, Rachel Armstrong, Ioannis Ieropoulos	Pee is Powerful! From artwork to new world infrastructures with ALICE
Sam Machin	PickMeUp And Hold Me Tight, or How I ended up war dialling the UK payphone estate
Rob Miles	Product Launch: Chocolate Synthbox Sound synthesizer
Emma McDonald	Psychological party tricks
Damian Bevan	Receiving amateur radio satellite beacons
Andy Whyte, Jason Evans	Refurbishing a 1970's Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Tim Murray-Browne	Rewilding Human-Computer Interaction
Robert D Manuel	Rob Manuel of @fesshole and b3ta talks about trying to entertain people with comedy bots
James Arthur	Running around in circles and why it isn't as useless as you first expect.
Tanya Harrison	See Change, Change the World: Imaging Earth with CubeSats
Sai	Sense without sight: blind navigation for sighted people
Nigel Worsley	Ship vs Oil Rig
Dr Mike Reddy	Sifteo Cubes: Resurrecting a legend
Skylar MacDonald	Skylar MacDonald's Fact Machine
Helen Leigh	Soft Electronics
Terence Eden	Solar Punks... ASSEMBLE! Data from domestic solar panels and batteries
Alexander Bolton	Some Useful Maths
Cybergibbons	Speed 3: Cruise Control
Simon Jelley	The Aragoscope: optics without lenses or mirrors
Cai Jones	The Art of Videogame Sound Effects
Sarah Angliss	The Atomic Gardener
Steve Baines	The curious design of the Apollo Guidance Computer.
John Dingley	The Digi-Gurdy: An electronic MIDI enabled Hurdy Gurdy project
Chris Wright	The future of invention
Alexander Belyaev	The Highest Energy Machine on the Earth to Solve the Biggest Puzzles of the Universe
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace	The imitation game - using live data feeds from Network Rail to control a model railway
Lincoln & Chris Barnes (Team Robotmad)	The Life of Geoff - our autonomous 4WD rover who nearly became a South African Nurse.
Jelly	The Parables of the Bird Poo, Vibrators, and Chemical Weapons: what hazardous waste can tell us about sustainable development.
Alex Rea	The SEGA Dreamcast: Frankenstein's Console
James Smith	The Tokenisation of the Commons
Sarah Cole	'This is Britain' – British cultural propaganda films of the 1930s-1940s, their creation, and their far-reaching global legacy
Suzie Devey	Two Tin Cans - Printmaking in a phonebox
Jason Bedard	Unfinished Projects: Breaking the cycle
Chris Lynas	Using Arduinos to Resurrect an Airliner Wing
Damian Bevan	Using computers to cheat at maths
jeffmakes	Wearable Fire Art
Jo Franchetti	Wearable live captions (making mask wearing more accessible for those who are hard of hearing)
Chris Swan	What if apps logged into you, instead of you logging into apps?
Rupert Callender	What remains? Stories from a radical undertaker
Trans Tech Tent (Abby Simmons / Jane Fleetwood)	Who if not you: A guide to community
Matthew Garrett	Who watches the scooters?
Dr Shane Horgan, Dr Sarah Anderson, and Dr Ben Collier	Why do researchers get 'hackers' so wrong, and why we should be worried about the police's response?
Danielle Saunders	Why doesn't the Universal Translator translate Klingon insults? A nerd's introduction to machine translation
Dr Kim Foale	Why is it so hard to do nice things, that make a difference, with other people?
Sophie Lovejoy	Why you really need to get out more...
Tim Jacobs	Why YOU should write a Gameboy Emulator

Workshops

Name	Title
The Crimson Wave Project	3D Printing Menstrual Technology
Elena Vataga	Applied String Theory
Mitch Altman	Arduino For Total Newbies - Learn to solder version
Kevin Lewis	Build Your First Battlesnake!
Yannick	Build your own Geiger Counter
Spencer Owen - RC2014	Build Your Own Z80 Retro Computer Kit
Jeffrey Roe	Building a TinyGS Station
Kevin Lewis	Building a Wearable Captioning Badge
Lydia Monnington	Building mathematical structures with modular origami
Lucy Rogers	Communication skills for Geeks
Melanie King	Cyanotype Workshop
Martin Leyrer	From Zero to root in 120 minutes - Introduction to Wordpress Hacking
Yannick	Hacking Alchemy: Turning Household Materials into Gold
Martin	Hacking group interactions
Tamar Willson	Hebocon robot building workshop
DJ Narq / Reflex	How to make a cool '90s Protracker Module on an Amiga (or using emulation)
Lydia Monnington	Introduction to Designing for the Laser Cutter
Mark Parnaby	Introduction to leatherwork
Mitch Altman	Learn to Solder / Digital Music Synthesis workshop with ArduTouch music synthesizer kit
Mitch Altman	LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone!
Alex McLean	Live coding algorithmic patterns with strudel
Jonny Austin	Machine learning playtime. Make normal objects clever with the micro:bit
Becky Stewart	Make an E-Textile Smart Pillow
Sai	Meditation for Hackers
Darren Blaxcell - rakits.co.uk	Metal Synth - Build/Solder your own Metal Percussion Synthesizer
Null Sector	Night Market
Peter Jackson	Paper Circuits Workshop
Sam Machin	Programming the EMF Phone network with Jambonz and Node-RED
Darren Blaxcell - rakits.co.uk	Rakit Drum Synth - Build/Solder your own Drum Synthesizer
Sai	Sense without sight / blind navigation hands-on workshop
Claire Phillips	Sew tech: a drop in workshop for help with sewing and fabric
Helen Leigh	Soft Electronics: Sewing Circuits
Matthew Little	Solder Some Solar
Ian Forrester	The future of podcasting is adaptive, open and data ethical
Isabel Bishop, Dhruv Kumar, Duncan Wilson	What’s in the water?

Youth Workshops

Name	Title
Kate Davis	A Model EMF
Jeffrey Roe, Christian Kortenhorst	Bridge Building
Kate Davis	Bubble Fun!
Adam Greig	Build and fly a rocket
Hannah Hulbert	Crafting Cnidarians: corals and jellies and siphonophores - oh my!
Dervla O'Brien	DIY Light Up Festival Bracelets
Tom	DJ Workshop
EMF Kids	EMF Kids Disco
Andrew Mulholland	Family pizza evening
Claire Mulholland	Gamestorming
Dale Lane	Intro to AI: Train your computer!
Will Furnell	Learn how to program (LEGO) rovers used in the most challenging environments
Bethanie Fentiman	Mario Kart Tournament
Kate Davis	Marshmallow Astronauts
Andrew Mulholland	Minecraft Coding Adventure - Seymour Island
Adam Cohen-Rose	Minecraft Robot Challenge
Ollie, Aiden, & Rob McKinnon	Origami Boomerang Folding
Andrew Mulholland	Painting with light - Build and paint with your own "Glowie"
Richard Hayler	Raspberry Pi Pico Party Poppers
Joanne Rachel Knox	What will we wear tomorrow

Music

Name	Title
2xAA	2xAA - electronic music crafted using Game Boys
2xAA	2xAA Chiptunes DJ Set
Ben XO	A spicy Drum & Bass DJ set at 174bpm or thereabouts
Ian Forrester	A trancy night with DJ cubicgarden
Alex McLean	Algorave
Chipko	Chipko
coderobe	coderobe
Courier	Courier
Cutlasses	Cutlasses
Det	Det
Dixie Flatline	Dixie Flatline
DJ LastKnight	DJ LastKnight
DJ Narq	DJ Narq
Flesh Tetris	Flesh Tetris
Felix Johnson	FSTPG DJ set
Gasman	Gasman's ZX Spectrum Chiptune Revival
Graham Dunning	Graham Dunning
Leon Trimble	Gravity Synth - Friday Night Edition
Kids' Disco	Kids' Disco
Sam Battle	Look Mum No Computer
Moormur	Moormur
MrJoshua	MrJoshua
Palindrones	Palindrones
Polyop	Polyop: An Audio-Visual Voyage
Allie	Some techno, in a field.
Superstar DJ Lai Power	Superstar DJ Lai Power
The Memepunks	The Memepunks
Tom Christian	Tom Christian
Tom Christian	Underground techno and house vinyl DJ set
Vieon	Vieon

Films

Name	Title
PJ Evans	General Magic
PJ Evans	Hackers
PJ Evans	Interstellar
PJ Evans	Sneakers
PJ Evans	The Barkley Marathons
PJ Evans	The Speed Cubers

Performances

Name	Title
MR P D Hutchinson	2xAA: writing chiptune using nanoloop
Adam Froggatt, Kate Devlin	GPT-3 Powerpoint Karaoke
Tamar Willson	Hebocon: terrible robot fighting tournament
Lucy Rogers	Life Of Riley Ceilidh Dance
Reality Crossley	Shader Showdown and Byte Battle

Attendee Events

We encourage people to run their own talks, performances, workshops, and community meetups during the event. These are the ones that people added to the schedule.

Name	Title
Tony Goacher: Hacman	3D printed/open hardware laser tag
Tony Goacher: Hacman	3D printed/open hardware lasertag
ADHD Hackers	ADHD/ASD Meetup
Midder	Air Quality Monitoring
AMSAT-UK Team	Amateur Radio Satellite Operation Demonstration
Mitch Altman	Arduino For Total Newbies - Solderless version
Nottinghack Village	Badge Soldering Workshop @Nottinghack
Nottinghack Village	Barbot
Bart Derudder	Belgian Beer tasting workshop
Blacksmiths	Blacksmithing - Have a go
Blacksmiths	Blacksmiths - have a go
Blacksmiths	Blacksmiths - Have a go
overflo	Blinkenrocket/Learn to solder
Yannick	Build your own Geiger Counter
Coppersmiths	Coppersmiths - Bowl making
The Maths Village	Craft Drop In
FieldFX	Demo Compos
The dinosaur skull 3D printing crew	Dippy Skull Assembly Party
Phil Ashby	DIY Satellites
evvvvil	Do you even write shaders bro?
The Maths Village	Dome Building Drop In
Alex Ball	Explore samples with light microscopy
Alex Ball	Family activities with the SEM
Jeff Gough	Film Screening: "The Phenomenon, 2020" - A mind-blowing documentary will convince you that UFOs/UAP are real
Steve Barnett	FooBot
Alison Kiddle	Geogebra Drop-in
Hackspace Foundation	Hackspace and Makerspace Meetup
Hacky Racers! (Opposite the Robot Arms)	Hacky Racers! (Opposite the Robot Arms)
Nathan Dumont	Informal retro computing meetup
Alexander Baxevanis	Infrastructure Club meetup
James Arthur	James Arthur Q&A
Mike Haber	Just Draw the Thing
Hibby	Karaoke
Entertentment	Karaoke 2: Sing again
Kliment	Layout the EMF badge
Blacksmiths	Masterclass - Egg Spoon
Matthew Scroggs	Matchbox Machine Learning Drop In
The Maths Village	Maths Face Painting
The Maths Village	MathsJam
Matthew Scroggs	Matthew Scroggs Q&A and games against MENACE
The Maths Village	Midnight Maths
Steve Barnett (Dungeon Crawl Classics) Andrew Armstrong (D&D)	Mixed RPGs - Dungeon Crawl Classics and D&D
FieldFX	Morning Demoshow
Ivy	Obscurecon
Betty Ching	Origami Lanterns
Michael Turner @trikkitt	PolyCoin Crypto Miners - Null Sector dance floor
Nottinghack Village	Pop Up Cafe
The Maths Village	Project Euler
hibby	QueerMF
FieldFX	Rave O'Clock
Alex Ball	SEM training
alex pilosov / Pilo	shortwave, hf, hft, phased arrays for fun and profit
Simon Singh	Simon Singh Q&A
Lex Robots	Story Twine
Kliment	Surface Mount Electronics Assembly for Terrified Beginners
Organised by Ben/Bee W	Tech Worker Coops informal meetup
-	The Bomb Defusal - Escape Game
irl	Tor Node Operators meetup
Milliways	Whiskyleaks
Mike Haber	Why Feedback Sucks and what to do about it
FieldFX	Winners Screening