List of villages for 2026

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• ! Glastonledburyshire-on-Severn !

  The sovereign nation state of Glastonledburyshire-on-Severn. In pint we drink. https://glastonledburyshire-on-severn-gov.uk

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• #EMFCamp

  A meta-village which contains the entirety of EMF and all its villages, except there's a twist!

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  Being soft is a revolutionary act. A tapestry of transfeminine-leaning internet communities. Formerly known as the Cuddly Catgirl Collective and femcamp. Now with more domes and more meowing

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• .shhhh

  A small group of friends from around the world who happened to meet in Fife. Cursed shell scripts and hacked-together UIs, and occasionally a quieter corner to hang out

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• 2016's Worst Village

  In 2016, someone told us we were the worst village. You be the judge.

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• 3t.network

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• All your bass are belong to us

  Some friends from Edinburgh and their speakers. If the music's playing, then come for a dance.

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• AMSAT-UK

  AMSAT-UK, the British Amateur Television Club (BATC), and the UK Microwave Group (UKuG) are teaming up to showcase satellite communications, amateur television, and microwave radio experimentation.

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• Astro Observability (stargazing things)

  Telescopes are fun, obviously more an evening / night thing but pending the weather on Friday the moon should be amazing around dusk and on Saturday the moon and Venus should both be visible through dusk and until around 10pm. Maybe someone will bring a solar scope for sun viewing too? Super happy for folk to join this village ♥️🔭 You're welcome to bring a scope, do not touch other people's scopes, but you can go down a rabbit hole of visual and photographic astronomy.

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• Axov Village

  your friendly neighbourhood consultancy company at emfcamp 2026

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• Bench

  Feeling tired? That bench may be iron, but I assure you it's quite comfortable. There's no better place to collect your thoughts before heading below. Plus I enjoy the company. Not that you seem the talkative sort.

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• Biohackers

  Biohacking – The art of modifying your body and transcending biological limits. Learn to feel magnetic fields, make your skin glow, become a walking Wi-Fi router. We explain everything from tattoos and glow cutting to implants and surgery, and we’ll answer every question we can :3 Please note: we have little interest in supplements and longevity or whatever else it is that Silicon Valley cishets think biohacking is.

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• BirkenHack

  Hackerspace in Birkenhead, Merseyside. Our interests: Nix, SCION, ipv6, radio, self-hosting, cats, buckwheat.

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• Bodgeham-on-Wye

  Bodgeham-on-Wye is a village and civil parish, in Herefordshire, England, near the border with Wales. It has exhibited rapid growth, more than doubling in size since 2024[1], with a 2026 population of 30. It lies in the south-east of the county, on the River Wye[citation needed], and adjacent to the Eastnor Deer Park. Bodgeham-on-Wye is upside-down.

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• Brighton Consulate

  A dozen or so people from Brighton, their friends, and their hobbies.

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• Bristol Hackspace

  Bristol Hackspace and friends

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• brittany 🥞 (the og one)

  A group of like-minded tinkerer friends from the plains of Brittany, France.

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• Brum and Besties (& Sheffield) [BABS]

  friends and more friends from Birmingham and Sheffield !

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• Cambridge Makespace

  collection of makespacers from the Cambrdige Makespace

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• Cardiff Makerspace

  Cardiff Makerspace is a shared workspace in Cardiff for people who like to learn and make stuff. A bunch of us will be at EMF, so come along and say hi to our lovely group of people! Our members interests include electronics, robotics, woodwork, metalwork, photography, music, jewellery making, paper craft and textiles.

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• Cheltenham Hackspace

  Better than East Essex Hackspace.

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• Clockwork Bods

  The wider Clockwork Dog family and friends.

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• com:LAAG

  Comm(un(e|ity)|ittee) of London And A(ffil|ssoc)iated Gays. Previously: TWASK, Apologies in Advance. A group of individuals (some friends, some foes), brought together by social fabric and shared interests. woof

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• Content Creators Village

  James Bruton and Matt Denton will be joined by various other Content Creator Professionals to showcase some projects.

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• D.I.B.S.

  Dibs Is Baggsy Synonym

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• DogsbodyHQ

  Not all infrastructure is invisible

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• Dreamcat & Friends

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• Duck Armada

  A group of friends that are into (retro) gaming and (ham) radio. Also music.

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• East Essex Hackspace

  East Essex Hackspace returns to EMF with organised chaos, questionable engineering, a TARDIS, K9, a Dalek, the VelociRacer, LAN gaming, Minecraft, antweight robots, paper rockets, pancakes, homebrew and the revised Potato of the Infinite. Come and join the nonsense.

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• ECHQ

  We're ECHQ and we ❤️ communications things

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• Edinburgh Hacklab

  Edinburgh Hacklab will be back again for 2026! Looking forward to see anyone that comes to visit us

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• EMF CTF

  Per normal, we will be about.

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• EMF-IX

  A BGP Internet Exchange Point (IXP) at EMF, Enjoy a collection of network engineers both professional and hobby

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• Field-FX

  A demoparty at emf! Come see demo compos, workshops on the demoscene and live coding tic80/shaders.

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• Flame 🔥 village

  Demonstrations of Project Firewall as shown on WHY2025.

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• Forge & Craft / HackWimbledon

  Forge & Craft is a husband-and-wife team with a studio at Wimbledon Art Studios in London. We explore art and design using technology (primarily pen plotters), and also tinker with electronics, 3D printing, and crafting machines between us. We're part of HackWimbledon, a pop-up hackspace in south-west London.

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• Foundry Zero

  We're a specialised supplier providing cyber security research and engineering services. Our team has a long and successful track record of delivering complex technical research and high quality software products across a range of platforms and technologies. We're running a small reverse engineering CTF, a radio challenge and a set of challenges for kids at our village. If you're interested in careers in Cyber Security, or just messing around in some binary challenges, come see us.

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• Freeside

  Freeside is a loose conglomerate of hackers from around the globe. Cyberpunks, Stirner enthusiasts, beer drinkers, hedgehog admirers, and victims of the programming language Go.

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• Friends of the Fractal Fern

  We are a group of friends hailing from Scotland. We like electronics, gardening, arts & crafts, DIY and Bamzooki.

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• Friends of the Moon

  FOTM is a loosely Southampton associated group of contraptioneers, makers and friends with interests ranging from 3D printing to infosec, and selfhosting to model making.

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• Furry High Commission

  The Furry High Commission (FHC) is a village that acts as a centre of activity for furries attending EMF

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• GCHQ.NET

  Error 403 - You have insufficient security clearance to access this information

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• Girls Club Satellite Campus

  Just some girls (and Ian)

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• Glasgow Hackerspace

  we're new here >_< come talk to us about huge plotters, tasty coffee, or furry hackerspace mascots

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• Gold member lounge

  We’re the Gold-Members lounge!

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• Gothic Valley

  A disorganised bunch of goths and goth-adjacent folk

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• Green Lantern(s)

  We have LED lanterns (most of which aren't green)

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• Guild of (Bread) Makers

  Random group associated with people who were members of the Guild of Makers. AKA friends of and friends of friends of Lucy.

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• Habville

  Habville is a loose group of high altitude ballooning enthusiasts, enjoying launching balloons, rockets but also just about anything that glows in RGB too.

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• Hack Club

  We are a community of international teenage hackers, and some of us are coming to EMF!

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• Hackalot

  Folks from Hackerspace Hackalot, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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• Hackeriet & Friends

  Hackeriet is the Oslo hackerspace. We welcome all creatrues.

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• Hacky Racers

  Zero Emissions. Maximum Mayhem.

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• Hardware Hacking Area

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• Hat village

  The lore behind the name Hat Village will be explained to those who ask

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• Hitchin Hackspace

  The little hackspace that likes to build big things

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• Homebrew, Historical and Retro Computing

  Homebrew, Historical and Retro Computing is for anyone who enjoys tinkering with classic machines, building their own, or just chatting about the history of computing. We should have a selection of classic machines and some home builds with us to try out

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• Hove, actually

  Brighton’s quieter neighbours

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• Håck ma's village

  We are a group of people from different hackspaces in Austria. Some of us also organize the Austrian Camp called Håck ma's Castle later in August. We bring a large dome and some Austrian Gemütlichkeit.

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• IGNORE ALL PRIOR VILLAGES

  giv root

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• Irish Embassy

  Loose collective of people with some connection to / interest in Ireland, who travel to hacker/maker events and pool resources to create shared spaces while there. (Not government-related, mostly power adaptors and cups of tea. As well as micro-controllers.)

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• KnobsVille

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• Koala Makers

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• Leeds Hackspace

  We're Leeds Hackspace! A workshop and craft space for people who like making things, are curious about how stuff works, or would like to learn new skills based in lovely Leeds.

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• Leigh Hackspace

  Hi folks, we're Leigh Hackspace - a makerspace based in Leigh.

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• LOC

  A small village for the lovely people on the EMF lighting team

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• Lock Picking Village

  Come and learn how locks work and how to pick locks. More descriptive description coming soon....maybe

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• Loitering Within Tent

  A collection of like-minded individuals with interests in all sorts! Expect a 3D printer going camping, mask painting workshops, a talk about cryptids in culture, an electromechanical owl hat, scientifically-perfect mojito, and an amazing, spinning light wave!

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• London Aerospace

  The ever increasingly misnamed and geographically disparate London Aerospace village. Swing by if you'd like to learn more about drone building, drone flying, drone crashing, and drone repairing.

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• Lucia Collective

  Flatlanders

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• Maker Space (Newcastle upon Tyne)

  Formerly known as The Northern Quarter, this is home of Maker Space members (of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead) and friends.

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• Maths Village

  A village for people interested in any kind of maths, particularly recreational maths.

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• MathWorks

  A group of people working for MathWorks in Cambridge - come say hi

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• meow meow village

  take me down to the meow meow village, where the women go nyaa and the projects aren’t finished

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• Milliways

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• Ministry of Chaos

  A UK-wide hacking community focused on maintaining chaos between events.

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• MK Makerspace

  A group of makers from the metropolis of the concrete cows.

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• Model Village

  🤖 Model Village 🦾 is for anyone interested in AI, machine learning, data science, deep learning, open data, GenAI, and everything in between. All are welcome to join us to camp and chat about: 1. 🤖🧠📊 AI, machine learning, DL, statistics, whatever you call it. 2. 📊📈⚖️ Data science, open data, data storytelling, algo bias, AI ethics. 3. 🐍🦀✨ Python, Rust, R, or whatever you dig to dig into data. 4. 🎵🎻🎷 Bring instruments (and/or jokes)! We'd love to have some live music jams in the evenings. Whether you go deep or just dipping your toes into the world of AI, you're welcome to join us. Let's hang out, share insights, and enjoy some tunes together under the stars. 🚀🎸🌌

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• Moose

  We are just a bunch of people that got connected by crazy and various circumstances Just a bunch of geeks sharing a story about moose (or possibly meese) who connected by crazy and various circumstances, in a spontaneous and still very dynamic way. Come and visit, we can tell you about all the mosses.

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• Motley Crew

  Miscellaneous family and friends

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• NADHack

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• Nationwide village

  Welcome to the Nationwide Village, a friendly corner of EMF where creativity, curiosity, and community come to life. Home of the Cosmic Bot Forge, this is your destination for hands-on robot building adventures, where makers of all ages can tinker, invent, and launch their own creations into the unknown.

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• Nix Camp

  Co-located with BirkenHack, Nix Camp is a yearly ad-hoc event in the North West of England, where attendees learn, teach and generally share knowledge about Nix/NixOS!

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• Non-Virtual Infraclub

  Some folks who hang out in the Infrastructure Club slack are going to be at EMF. Come and hang out with us, and talk about tetrapods.

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• NoobSpace

  A group of EMF Seniors with some noobs.

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• Nottingham Hackspace

  For members and friends of Nottingham Hackspace. Come hang out. 🍹 We are bringing a slushy machine 🍹

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• Ominous Systems Inc.

  Nothing suspicious.

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• Oxford's EOF Hackspace

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• Party Pals

  an assorted bunch of London Area folx (majority transfem) that love to dance. By day come chat to us about niche subgenres of electronic music, and by night, see you front left? A fair few of us have DJ sets in null sector and performances elsewhere across the weekend! Outside of EMF we come from many walks of life, We aim to bring bits of EMF to everyday life as much as possible

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• pilk

  the national pepsi and milk appreciation society

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• Poorly Located Progesterone

  Miscellaneous queers from Cambridge. Come write GLSL in our ~~~Shader Dome~~~. Sorry no prog music this time!

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• rLab - Reading Hackspace

  rLab is Reading's hackspace. Founded in 2010 and moving into our current building in 2014, we're one of the longest running spaces in the UK. We'll be doing all manner of making and hacking during EMF and we'll be keen to show off what we've been working on and even run some demos!

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• Scottish Consulate

  The Original and Best, a well known bunch of Fannies

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• SeriousCamp

  We're very serious

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• Sheffield-by-the-Sea

  A group of friends bringing their smallest friend to his first EMF in the world. Expect colourful, reactive jellyfish on display round the camp.

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• Shonkbot

  A collection of people loosely associated with Bristol Hackspace or other Bristolian tech malarkey. We'll be providing field support services for the World'O'Techno, and tinkering with all kinds of nonsense. Expect robots, LoRa, modular synthesis, and flipdots.

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• Shonkbot-sur-les-roues

  The wheeled contingent of Shonkbot village, mostly for navigational purposes

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• Shrubbery

  A group of friends who demand a shrubbery!

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• Sibermerdeka

  A hackerspace from the other side of the world, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! We have members and friends from all over the world, and we'd like to have you along too!

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• South London Makerspace

  South London Makerspace is a social community workshop in the heart of Herne Hill, South London. It's owned, run and maintained by the members; there are no paid staff.

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• Spargle 🥦

  Ich bin ein Übergemüse mit Übergemüsequalitäten.

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• Spark Life (HV Village)

  A collection of high voltage equipment, Tesla Coils, Van De Graff, Dirod, Wimshurst Machines and some old electrotherapy machines. Open to ALL EMF Villagers with High voltage interests Contact me tesla@extremeelectronics.co.uk if you want to bring something to show/demonstrate.

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• Stroopwafels & Oatcakes

  Stroopwafels, the delicious snack from The Netherlands.. Just like some of us! Oatcakes (the Staffordshire one), the delicous snack from Staffordshire.. Just like some more of us! We just like snacks, okay?

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• Swansea Hackspace

  Swansea Hackspace is a community-run space in Swansea where enthusiasts in electronics, textiles, science, digital art, crafting and just hacking on stuff can meet, share, learn, and work. A bunch of us will be attending EMF as a village, and we may have some interesting projects to show off! Come and say hello!

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• Teesside Hackspace

  Members, friends, imposters and gatecrashers of Teesside Hackspace (North East England)

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• Tekhnē-cal Village

  A village for people who like playing with string. Loosely organised fibrecrafts themed village, with a central marquee with places to sit, tea/coffee, and free craft materials. All crafting ability levels welcome! We will run drop-in crafting sessions for all ages and another fibrecraft materials swap again this year. The village will be very family and LGBTQ+ friendly, and we will do our best to be a calm sensory space for anyone who needs a break away from the main areas.

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• Tented Vias

  A group of friends who share common interests in electronics, making, and hacking.

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• Test Village

  Not actually a test! A group of people from Harwell Makers, STFC, South Oxfordshire and friends. You’re most welcome to join us! We will be camping in a very quiet/family area.

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• The Deerdog Domain

  A chaotic collection of university friends and family blindly lead by their fuzzy antlered companion. Mixture of experienced campers, new attendees, furries, and whoever else randomly decided to tag along!

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• The Hacking Hamlet

  We're too small to be a village. Building things, breaking things. fixing things, cooking & eating things, and a LOT of lights.

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• Threadz 'n' Webz

  We are a bunch of misfits, herded together by one fabric crazed lady. Blending webby nerdy things and thready oddball crafts. Step back in time and (cyber) space to 199x dial up era to find PC and landline phone fun. Or perhaps following the strings of fate to find weaving, fabric and craft madness. Extremely LGBTQ+ friendly. May contain ducks, bats, hackers and spiders. With thanks to ECHQ/CuTel for landlines and Tekhnē-cal for even more thready crafts.

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• tilde.friends

  tilde.industries + friends from the UK, France, the Netherlands, Finland, Poland, and more!

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• Traditional Crafts

  A collection of traditional craft enthusiasts and workshops. If you're interested in joining, message YetiFiasco on EMFCamp IRC

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• Tricky Disco

  A long-lived collection of friends and hackers. Music, civic hacking, occasionally fire art.

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• UKLEM

  The UK Laser* Enthusiasts Meet

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• Unaffiliated Village

  New to EMF or come without friends? Join the unaffiliated village and meet some people.

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• Unnamed Village

  A group of losely connected friends from across the UK. In previous years, ran a small programme of techy workshops for kids and teens.

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• Village of Certain Doom

  A whole bunch of techies who had originally planned to make some cool stuff but completely failed to shall gather together for much merriment. We may offer snacks.

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• York Hackspace

  Members, friends, and loose associates of York Hackspace.

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• ZTL

  Zentrum für Technikkultur Landau A Makerspace in Landau (Pfalz), Germany

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