Following a bunch of #emfcamp people was a good idea: it's a regular bump to my brain of people doing cool projects. That's what I miss about not being a regular hackerspace member. Turns out, the internet can provide!
I am still surfing the wave of “omg #emfcamp was simply an amazing experience”
A friend’s response after hearing a fraction of what we got up to: “that’s incredible. How can you go back to your day to day life now? Isn’t it really boring in comparison?”
This is an excellent question, if a little terrifying to think about. I don’t have an answer. So I must conclude… the status quo is not enough: we need to make it our mission to make the real world more like EMF.
Just found this photo and gotta say, I'm so proud of how the #emfcamp welcome sign turned out!
Huge thanks to my computer for successfully generating a file almost 3 square meters at 300dpi :P
On my flight home, and I have written a somewhat emotional blog post about my time at EMF and how it recharges me in a way almost nothing else does: "An Electromagnetic Force" https://aeracode.org/2024/06/05/emf-2024/
EMF is a giant team effort, but I'd like to thank some individuals:
Foremost @jellysnakes, my second on the Arts team, without whom I would have had a breakdown, and @oliverchild for carrying the load at Null Sector.
@joenash and @CatherineFlick for making the arcade awesome and saving me from feeling really stupid about the idea 😂, and @mrpjevans for doing the same with the video container.
Finally, @jonty for trusting me and being a lovely person and friend.
@philpem@sam@scarlet
With teletext, of course.. I've got a couple of SofTel inserters, plus a generator, that would slot right in.
Having seen so much posted about #emfcamp this year, I'm definitely going to have to work out how I can get to the next one! Might even be tempted to set up some sort of viewdata service, too..
87 out of 88 and second place on the leaderboard. As the sun is setting, I guess that's it. The gchq.net game took me places I otherwise wouldn't have discovered. Would definitely play again, this was great fun. :) #emfcamp#emf2024
Ok. Moar pictures of contraptions!
James Bruton ( @XRobotsUK ) brought a... thing. It's a three-wheeled tentacle robot. Absurd and amazing!
A lot of vehicles, some of them competing in the hacky racers series!
A tracked trike which worked really well on the grass and dirt.
And someone had a real fighting robot with them! #emf2024#emfcamp
By the way... The second picture shows Matt Denton on his Lego-inspired motorbike. He finished it on site and also made a video about the first part. And cought me while I was admiring the tentacle thing from the first picture. :D https://youtu.be/rAm-lMeZ-uE #emf2024#emfcamp