Line-up

This is a list of the events we're planning at EMF 2026. Not all of them are announced yet, so check back frequently.

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Talks

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

Workshops

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

Performances

Music

Films

Apollo 13
The dramatised story of Apollo 13, the mission that nearly ended in disaster.
WALL-E
In a future where humans have temporarily abandoned Earth, a trash-compacting robot falls in love with a flying droid and helps her on her quest to restore hope to mankind.
This Is Spinal Tap
A spoof documentary of a hapless UK rock band
How To Train Your Dragon
A young viking's encounter with an injured dragon results in an unlikely friendship.
2001: A Space Odyssey
When a mysterious artefact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.
Apollo 11
A visually stunning look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins.
Moon
Sam Bell encounters the most terrifying thing on a Moon base. Himself.
Hackers
In this geek classic hackers are blamed for making a virus that will capsize five oil tankers.
The Princess Bride
A mapcap fairytale adventure with countless cameos, quatable lines and general silliness.
Wallace & Gromit Double-Bill
Two of Aardman's most loved shorts, with Wallace the inventor and his long-suffering pooch, Gromit.
Contact
When a message is received from deep space, a young scientist is given the chance to be the first make contact.