andrew , an Random Englisch
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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/

jonathanhogg , an Random Englisch
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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.

jonathanhogg , an Random Englisch
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HIghlight #2: Lucas Payton’s Infinite Potato was exactly as awesome as I wanted it to be when I read the proposal.

A (poor) close-up of the potato showing that the concentric rings of LEDs appear to disappear into endless wells in the object.

philpem , an Random Englisch
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You know what #EMF2024 #emfcamp needs?

Cable TV.

concretedog , an Random Englisch
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In peak style had a message from @mattgrayyes about a box left for me at logistics tent. It is obviously box full of "shrilling chickens" feel free to come get this most random freebie off me at the null sector night market this evening! We might even be able to fettle em onto a

mattgrayyes , an Random Englisch
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Hehehe @thisisjofrank got a photo of me wrestling the paper #emf2024 #mastodot

donna_156 , an Random Englisch
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Hi Matt :D @mattgrayyes #emf2024

mattgrayyes , an Random Englisch
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Wooo it lives!
I’ve just replaced the paper in Mastodot: the Mastodon Dot Matrix Printer

Laser etched sign for it Electromagnetic Field 2024 Mastodot Matrix Printer Matt Gray (he/him) Dot matrix printer hooked up to Mastodon. Prints anything with #emfcamp on it, or anything @mentioned to it. in theory. As i write this description, I haven't finished making it :D

ThePinkHacker ,
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@mattgrayyes This is a waste of paper.
#emf2024

ripper , an Random Englisch
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I love all the posts from people travelling or at least preparing to travel to @emf in my timeline.
In less than 48h I'll join them. :)

ripper OP ,
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is amazing, you spend 2h putting up chairs at Stage A and everything looks different. It's a proper camp now. :O

ripper OP ,
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Are the people who volunteer called "Voluntier"? 🤔

ripper OP ,
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Sooo I heard the people at like camping? Luckily there's @hackmas taking place in August in Austria!

ripper OP ,
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This is a test, please ignore this toot.

ripper OP ,
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Come to the entrance tent, we have the best music!

ripper OP ,
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Oooohhh, the @badge has a boop button! 👀

ripper OP ,
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Found my toot!

ripper OP ,
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Just helped build up some small parts of nullsector... It looks amazing this year. 👀

ripper OP ,
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I returned a big potato and won a small one! :yayblob:

ripper OP ,
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Well, that was fun! Found 75 out of 87 of the gchq.net tokens today. Will try to find the remaining ones tomorrow. 👀

ripper OP ,
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86 out of 88. And I think I have an idea where the remaining 2 could be. Now I need to finish this!

ripper OP ,
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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. :)

ripper OP ,
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Oh, I still have photos from I wanted to share. People brought sooo many funny, hacky, cool builds.

A Henry (vacuum cleaner) with two chonky wheels at the back and a handle bar sticking out of it. An air filter for an ICE engine is sticking out the front, which means it's a motorised vehicle.
A green-yellow bicycle with a power drill mounted above the front wheel, powering it via some chains. It looks very much hacked together.
A go cart made from wood. It has a green floor plate and something that looks like a wind turbine mounted on the back. The blades are above the steering wheel. Why.

ripper OP ,
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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!

A parade of multiple vehicles driving on a path on a campsite. At the front, there's a small motorbike, that looks like it's made from big Lego bricks. Behind it, there are many different go carts and similar vehicles.
A big trike with a stubby front tire is standing in the grass. Instead of rear wheels, there are small tracks. An older guy is sitting on the trike and looking at the camera.
A wedge-shaped thing made from Aluminium is placed on the tailgate of a truck. It's painted red and black and has a lot of scratches. At the front there's a shovel-like thing mounted to a movable arm. Some of the covers are removed and the insides are visible, shoving a pressurised tank.

It's a... thing. It has three Omni wheels at the bottom, a few rotating axes on top of it, so it can orient the end in any direction. And at the top, there's a bendable gripper. It's made from an enormous amount of 3D printed parts, plywood and Aluminium extrusions. Just completely bonkers. It's standing in the grass in front of some tents and a laptop is plugged into it for some debugging I guess.
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    • ripper OP ,
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    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

    ripper OP ,
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    At EMF there's always a lot of beautiful art projects. That's not even remotely all of them and they were all amazing.

    A small table with a red telephone is standing in the grass next to a pond at night. A small lamp on the table illuminates the scene. In the distance, some lasers are visible.
    An old Volkswagen bus is standing in the grass at night. It's covered with LEDs and they are sowing some kind of pattern.
    Three giant dandelion seedheads are standing in the grass next to a few tents. They are about the size of a human and perfectly replicate real dandelions.

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