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  1. @Edent you or @emf should do a hashtag poll 😅 there ws a confusing mix of EMF hashtags in 2024!!

    #EMFCamp
    #EMF24
    #EMF2024
    #EMFCamp24
    #EMFCamp2024

    I think the just '24' versions were silly as they make it sound more like it's the 24th EMFCamp... but both of them were being thrown about!

  2. Mayke [20/31] - When it's a lovely evening in the orphan source village, and you are a terrible duck :dome: :duck_verified:

    martinh.net/hacks/excitable-ma

    #Mayke #Mayke25 #Retro #EMF #EMF2024 #EMFCamp #OrphanSource #OrphanSourceVillage #Chatty (yep, not quite done with Mayke yet!)

  3. My talk from Electromagnetic Field 2024 is now available to watch on YouTube.

    This was a shorter version of a talk I gave as the closing keynote at QCon London1. It covers the work we’re doing with pen plotters at Forge & Craft, as well as telling the story of my exploration of the history of computer art – and pioneering plotter artists such as Nake, Nees, Molnár and Cohen, as well as modern makers and artists – over the course of the past 18 months.

    There was a bit of a technical issue midway through (edited out of the video, although you will hear the applause when the system recovered!) so the latter part is a bit more sped up and raced through than I intended – hopefully I’ll have an opportunity to do a “complete” version of this talk at some point. A big thank you to the EMF video team for making the talk watchable; I’m sure there was a lot of clever editing required! 👏🏻

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jyZkEsr1vs

    You can find links to the resources mentioned in the closing section of the presentation, on an accompanying website.

    If you want to read about our experiences at EMF 2024, I wrote about those back nearer the time.

    1. The QCon one should be online in about a month from now 🤞🏻 ↩︎

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    https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/12/15/where-is-the-art/

    #100DaysToOffload #art #computerHistory #electromagneticField #emf2024 #emfcamp #forgeAndCraft #history #penPlotter #penplotter #plotterArt #presentation #talks #Technology

  4. For those of you, who like to nerd out on CRT based graphic terminals from the 1970s and 1980s, I recommend this talk from this years Electromagnetic Field 2024. Enjoy: media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-43-forg #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #tektronix #nerdcontent #nerdpr0n #emf2024

  5. For those of you, who like to nerd out on CRT based graphic terminals from the 1970s and 1980s, I recommend this talk from this years Electromagnetic Field 2024. Enjoy: media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-43-forg #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #tektronix #nerdcontent #nerdpr0n #emf2024

  6. For those of you, who like to nerd out on CRT based graphic terminals from the 1970s and 1980s, I recommend this talk from this years Electromagnetic Field 2024. Enjoy: media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-43-forg #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #tektronix #nerdcontent #nerdpr0n #emf2024

  7. For those of you, who like to nerd out on CRT based graphic terminals from the 1970s and 1980s, I recommend this talk from this years Electromagnetic Field 2024. Enjoy: media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-43-forg #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #tektronix #nerdcontent #nerdpr0n #emf2024

  8. For those of you, who like to nerd out on CRT based graphic terminals from the 1970s and 1980s, I recommend this talk from this years Electromagnetic Field 2024. Enjoy: media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-43-forg #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #tektronix #nerdcontent #nerdpr0n #emf2024

  9. If you'd like to hear me waffle for 45 minutes about how The Internet gets from your house to your local exchange/altnet, now you can! I gave this talk at #emfcamp2024 and now it's online for your viewing pleasure. media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-305-the
    #emf2024 #telecoms #altnet

  10. It's taken me a month, but the final part of my "take a #strowger #telephoneExchange to #emfcamp"" video series is now live!

    youtube.com/watch?v=DikYIWUkSd

    Lessons learned:

    - I suck at logistics
    - When stuff is in 3 places, the thing I need is somewhere else
    - heavy thing is heavy, awkward, but omg fun
    - talking that much, next to a rave, drops my voice noticably
    - SD cards are garbage
    - Having fun means I forget to film stuff
    - OMG BASS!
    - It was 200% worth the effort!

    #emf2024 #emf24 #emfcamp2024

  11. A few weeks ago, we had our second experience of the wonderful community that is the Electromagnetic Field festival.

    The EMF24 sign: solar panel, water installations, and recycled circuitboards.

    Electromagnetic Field [background here] is also known as EMF or #emfcamp – a festival initiated by Jonty Wareing and Russ Garrett over a decade ago. It is entirely, and wonderfully, volunteer-run and community-oriented.

    We first went to EMF two years ago, and that time, took a car filled up with a lot of camping gear, and as many gadgets as I could cram in alongside. For some reason, the only place I wrote much about that trip was in my newsletter… which I have been neglecting a lot, much like this blog. On that trip, we camped near to the Guild of Makers, had no particular expectations, and just had a fantastic time exploring and learning. I built an RC2014 Micro in one of the workshops, and went to some great talks.

    A Plan

    This year, with our Forge & Craft studio becoming more established, we wanted to do something more. I submitted two talks, one of which was accepted; we applied to be a part of the Null Sector Night Market; and, with all of the maker stuff we wanted to take along, we decided to hire a camper van and set up an area for drop-in workshops around our craft (pen plotting, vinyl cutting, heat pressing, sublimation et al… I didn’t take a 3D printer as well, but did seriously consider it!).

    We even made a sign. Previous tenants of our studio had left a giant empty frame in the storage area, which we repurposed with some plywood and paint (a future upgrade will probably include some LEDs, but I didn’t have the time before the event to make those happen this time around).

    A large square wooden frame painted white, with a Forge & Craft logo and URL in dark blue.

    About ten days before we were due to set off, the owner of the camper we’d booked let us know that the boiler was leaking and that we’d have no hot water, but on balance, that was a compromise we were OK with… The van (named Louna, and hired through Quirky Campers) was lovely, beautifully kitted out, straightforward to drive, and it worked really well for us, even when we had some mud-related challenges getting parked up at the top north east corner of the EMF site, and getting back off that spot on the morning that we left (our wonderful neighbours were good enough to give us a quick push off to get us on our way).

    The Experience

    There are a number of other write-ups of how folks experienced EMF 2024, and pretty much all of them have different content and highlight different things, many of which are miscellany that I missed around the site. That is to say – EMF has a lot of diverse and interesting stuff to discover.

    This time I felt like an experienced hand, even as someone that had only been along once before. It turned out that several of my friends were going to be there for the first time, and had already sought advice and made connection with me about travel, planned location etc. We ended up parked at the far top corner of the site, opposite Null Sector, but also close to the Guild of Makers village that we were again loosely affiliated with (also, we’re thrilled about the MBE awarded to our brilliant GoM friend Dr Lucy Rogers!). It turns out that having a surrounding sheet of steel to sleep inside was reasonably sound-insulating compared to a tent, so we did mostly manage to get some sleep, despite the proximity to the loud late-night music generation zone!

    There are far Too Many Things to write about in detail, here is but a small flavour.

    Talks

    I went to a handful of talks; there were too many on my planned schedule across the 4 days, but realised I would never see everything, so I sniped at some key ones and resolved to catch up on recordings of others when possible.

    • I finally saw Ellie Huxtable talk about shell history with Atuin (I missed this talk at FOSDEM although did get to meet Ellie there, and she was unable to join State of Open Con, so I’m glad to have seen this!). I’m now gradually installing and learning Atuin on each device and system I regularly use.
    • Love love loved Shan Sun‘s talk about becoming a maker! So interesting, and a reminder that folks from all kinds of backgrounds can find joy in creating things. Shan’s lighthouses installation in Null Sector was also really cool.
    • The talk about Tiny Toolkits was really good, and has caused me to add an array of small and handy tools to my “wanted” lists…!
    • There was a fun talk about connecting Arduino boards to the web, which had some great demos inside it.
    • Lucy gave an inspiring talk about looking Up, and the science above our heads. Looking forward to her book on this subject.
    • After my experience (and illegal treatment) by the company that used to be Twitter UK as directed by the new owner, I found the discussion about Why Tech Needs Unions very interesting. A topic about which I now, in middle age, have a lot of Thoughts, which I may share at some point.
    • Martin Hamilton‘s fabulous rewind to the 1990s session about the origins of web search and how AI and capitalism have largely ruined things, was great. After briefly flirting with some other options, I’m now mostly using SearXNG for my search needs where I can. Be More Goat! 🐐

    For my own time on stage, it was exciting to be able to deliver a new version of a talk I’d previously given as a 45 minute closing keynote, in a more focused 20 minute slot. I talked about the history of computer art and pen plotters – computer-driven drawing machines – and how I’ve now built several of them. There was, however, an A/V bump in the road, so I definitely lost a bit of momentum and content along the way when I had to reboot halfway though 😬 video to follow, on this one. You can find the related links and notes here.

    Thanks to my friend Jacqui for taking some nice photos of me on stage!

    Sights

    As with the talks, so very many things I could mention here, and still more we didn’t even get to encounter. Let’s summarise a few.

    • the on-site (wired) phone system was, once more, a delight – it made me a bit sad that I didn’t bring anything to plug into it, again.
    • a man played a Theremin to drive the output of a Tesla coil.
    • there was a series of murder mystery games involving the death of our beloved Clippy. I did not play these, but loved the idea and execution and heard that a lot of people did get really engaged in solving the crime!
    • A physical version of Flappy Bird! Just brilliantly executed, I loved it.

      This was in the main bar; the whole of the Arcade (a separate space) was also fantastic, although I did not have a lot of time to explore. I was excited to see some games there built using Downpour, which I recently talked about on our weekly podcast.
    • The most engaging and intriguing installation for me was Shadowplay (inside Null Sector), from Joseph Lindley, Roger Whitham, and Jesse Benjamin. An absolutely fascinating live demonstration of image diffusion [aka generative AI] effects applied to video capture. No particular reason, except that it was cool. I could have played in there for ages!
    Playing with the Shadowplay installation

    Hacks

    On to the physical “making” I got involved with…

    • in 2022 I missed a workshop I was interested in on Building a Tiny Satellite Ground Station; this time, I successfully made it in. I enjoyed the experience of building a small 1⁄4-wave ground plane antenna and hooking it up to TinyGS running on a LilyGo LoRA board.
      • When I got home, I excitedly started to poke around in the TinyGS project, but it seems a bit tricky to get involved with – only parts of it are open source / source-available, and the community discussion is largely on Telegram. I’m finding myself more frustrated than I’d like – I definitely would love to contribute to documentation and so forth, but have not really found a way to do so. It is fun to set up, but (my impression is that it is) not so easy to take it further. Back burner, and I may give up on it if I can’t figure out how to help and get helped.
    • The Tildagon badge is great! I really enjoyed following it from announcement, through pre-event discussion, to collecting mine at the event and continuing to figure out what is possible afterwards.
      • Before EMF I tentatively created up a few 3D printed addon Hexpansions, and some folks were able to confirm that they should fit, so I made a set of simple spirit level pieces, which other attendees seemed to enjoy. I’ll be making more, and you can find the designs on Printables as well. I like the concept that a hexpansion can be anything from a piece of card, through to a fully-functional electronic peripheral which contributes software to the main badge, and that we can continue to iterate on this design in the future.
      • I ported my previous 2022 badge Duck Facts app as an app on the Tildagon, for all your vital Duck Facts – @emfducks, you’re welcome, QUACK! 🦆

    The Magic

    On Friday, we had a spot in the Night Market. We loved the experience of being there, talking to people about pen plotters and our art (and also, encouraging folks to come to see us at the pop-up by our camper, or to my talk), and making some sales. This was our first time selling as Forge & Craft outside of our own open studios, and a very different audience.

    The response was really wonderful, and it felt like a great place to be.

    Our stand in the Night Market, selling plots, prints, and a few HexpansionsA very busy Night Market

    The only tiny piece of feedback I had was that the Night Market space itself was relatively small for the amount of footfall and traffic that came through – we could easily have used a full table, and having a bit more space for visitors may have made it feel a little less crammed in – nonetheless, Thank You so much to the organisers for having us, it was an absolutely great experience and we barely noticed the time rush by up until the 1am (!) close!

    One more magical thing, was that this was an event at which Mastodon and the Fediverse came into their own!

    • Ahead of the event, I put together a Fediwall to track associated hashtags and accounts across a range of popular and related Mastodon servers. As EMF approached, the chatter became more noticeable, and I began to follow a lot of interesting folks I had not previously been aware of.
      (also, you can follow hashtags on Mastodon, which can help to build a network around your areas of interest, particularly if you are on a larger server).
    • My old friend James Smith proposed a Fediverse Friends meetup – which unfortunately overlapped with our Night Market time, but there were two of us to man our stall, so I was able to pop out and put some faces to Fediverse handles. I even brought Mastodon stickers and (for the fortunate few who got one) some magnets as well. Even if you were not at the meetup, hopefully you may have found a cheeky Mastodon logo sticker waiting to be collected somewhere else on the site 🦣 😉
    • A key element was that every organising team at the event was on the Fediverse (specifically, GoToSocial, which is what their server uses, but easily followable on Mastodon, thank you ActivityPub), and attendees could use that to keep up with announcements and news. And, in the end, the wonderful @DrLucyRogers joined in the fun! I also managed to persuade the TinyGS project to set up their account.
    • There were installations that connected to the Fediverse! Fabulous! This really felt like the early days of Web 2.0 platforms again, to some extent – it could easily have been 2010 all over again, with a dot matrix printer that sat in the main bar printing out Mastodon posts with the specific hashtag (thank you Matt Gray!), and a fax machine in the Null Sector bar that took in physically doodled images and posted them on Mastodon.
    A dot matrix printer, printing Mastodon posts “MastoDot”A post from the author, printed on a dot matrix printerFax To Fedi, a fax machine connected to the FediverseA very poorly-drawn Forge & Craft logo, with the text #emf2024, posted via fax to an image on Mastodon

    The Feeling

    This.

    I came back feeling energised and enriched, having reconnected with my communities. We had a great time.

    Roll on 2026. Thank you to everyone involved.

    Postscript: I did some babbling about EMF on the podcast a couple of weeks ago, as well, just at the start. Why not take a listen?

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    https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/06/20/energized-mood-flux/

    #art #camping #community #emf2024 #emfcamp #forgeAndCraft #making #penplotter #publicSpeaking #Technology #volunteering

  12. I hate asking this, but...

    Did anyone shoot any video of my strowger exchange in #nullsector at #emf2024, and would be ok with me using a short clip of it in a video I'm editing?

    I got so carried away with talking to people about it, I forgot to actually film it in use 🤦‍♂️

    I only need a short clip to fill in that bit of the narative.

    The vid won't be monetized so I can't pay a meaningful amount, but I will credit/link etc, and of course love you forever!

    #emf #emf24 #emfcamp #emfcamp2024

  13. Honestly, hat off to Sam for making it work in a week. I didn’t believe he’d do it when he said that was his plan. However, he is going to be just Look Mum to me from now on as he clearly has a computer! 😂

    #LookMumNoComputer #SuperComputer #JemFiner #emfcamp #EMF2024

  14. Here is me, pictured after having moved it the first time. I spent over 3 hours with Jem Finer taking it – one wheely trolley at a time – down five floors in a lift and jamming it into a slightly too small van

    #LookMumNoComputer #SuperComputer #JemFiner #emfcamp #EMF2024

  15. Before EMF, I had the pleasure of meeting artist Jem Finer and collecting his gigantic marble-run artwork Supercomputer. We put it in a tent as a participatory experiment. I expected we'd give it away in bits at the end as nobody could store it.

    Excitingly, Look Mum No Computer came to the festival and asked if he could take the whole thing! I spoke to Jem and he seemed cool with that, so this is the result:

    youtube.com/watch?v=80om0OpKZx

    #LookMumNoComputer #SuperComputer #JemFiner #emfcamp #EMF2024

  16. @FroggyMakes @an0key Some Fedi clients like Phanpy let you follow multiple hashtags in a group, so you can get the full EMF firehose by combining something like #EMF #EMFCamp #EMF24 #EMF2024 #EMFCamp24 #EMFCamp2024 :blobfoxwink:

  17. Here’s a short clip I took, up in the #NullSector DJ booth during my Saturday Night set…. #Junglist #EMFCamp #EMFCamp2024 #EMF2024 #MrJoshua - The revolution has now begun!

  18. Watch the video of my #EMFCamp talk "Let's Party Like It's 1994" on reclaiming search for the searcher: youtube.com/watch?v=iJ1PXzeQHV

    And remember to #BeMoreGoat :goathacker:, and consider joining the #SearchClub

    #EMF #EMF24 #EMF2024 #EMFCamp2024 #EMFCamp24

  19. Watch the video of my #EMFCamp talk "Let's Party Like It's 1994" on reclaiming search for the searcher: youtube.com/watch?v=iJ1PXzeQHV

    And remember to #BeMoreGoat :goathacker:, and consider joining the #SearchClub

    #EMF #EMF24 #EMF2024 #EMFCamp2024 #EMFCamp24

  20. Watch the video of my #EMFCamp talk "Let's Party Like It's 1994" on reclaiming search for the searcher: youtube.com/watch?v=iJ1PXzeQHV

    And remember to #BeMoreGoat :goathacker:, and consider joining the #SearchClub

    #EMF #EMF24 #EMF2024 #EMFCamp2024 #EMFCamp24

  21. Watch the video of my #EMFCamp talk "Let's Party Like It's 1994" on reclaiming search for the searcher: youtube.com/watch?v=iJ1PXzeQHV

    And remember to #BeMoreGoat :goathacker:, and consider joining the #SearchClub

    #EMF #EMF24 #EMF2024 #EMFCamp2024 #EMFCamp24

  22. Watch the video of my #EMFCamp talk "Let's Party Like It's 1994" on reclaiming search for the searcher: youtube.com/watch?v=iJ1PXzeQHV

    And remember to #BeMoreGoat :goathacker:, and consider joining the #SearchClub

    #EMF #EMF24 #EMF2024 #EMFCamp2024 #EMFCamp24

  23. One stat from PolyGen, a total of 32 payment cards were used by players. 20 identified as generic payment cards, plus 3 x Mastercards, 6 x Debit Mastercards, 1 x Visa, 1 x Visa Debit, 1 x Visa Credit.

    The units don't try hard, which is why most are Payment Card. Card details are not retained, only index of the audio clip it played is saved. Audio is appoximately "Visa Debit card accepted, authorising donation to Polybius Biotech please wait... Just kidding". #emf #nullsector #emfcamp #emf2024

  24. Great seeing some pictures of me in my alter-ego at EMF as live visuals performer with @feralfive. Lovely to be back on stage with them! (Even if I spent most of the performance in a cold sweat 😂)

    #emfcamp #EMF2024 #emfHighlights #FlitterLang #LiveVisuals #LiveMusic
    mastodon.social/@feralfive/112

  25. Highlight #8: Tim Hunkin(!) and his fabulous mechanical arcade machine, Revolution. I absolutely loved walking the site with Tim and introducing him to astonished people

    #emfcamp #EMF2024 #emfHighlights #TimHunkin

  26. Here is the recording of my #techno #dj set at Null Sector, #emf2024 Thanks to all that came! And if you missed it, make sure to check it out if you are into Techno :)

    soundcloud.com/juli_jane/elect

    #emfcamp #emf24 #emfcamp2024 #emfcamp24

  27. The #strowger #telephoneExchange is home from #emf2024 and safely wrestled into the shed.

    huge thanks to everyone who made that happen… marrold, callum(?), tommy, my husband James and my next door neighbour for logistics support, everyone at @CuTEL snd @phones for their assistance getting it connected to the rest of the network, Oliver at #NullSector for pointing me at the right things, @noc for the network connection… the whole org team who put the event on, and everyone who visited! #amazing!

  28. So if you saw this at #emfcamp #emf2024 #emf this year and want something similar, I make things on commission if you dm me I can drop you an email.

    I also sell through Etsy UnwoundBobbin.etsy.com #lanyards #paciclips #WristStraps #FidgetToys made of ribbon and will put #pride ribbon on virtually anything on request. For emf people you can use the code emf2024 until 30th June for 20% off at my Etsy :)
    morehammer.uk/@bencc/112524790

  29. Some more, (the last one was SO hard to get right, as it's got the focus plane tilted a bit, to only get the laser beam into focus)

    #emf #emf24 #emf2024 #emfcamp #emfcamp24 #emfcamp2024

  30. Had a lot of fun at EMFcamp! Played around with taking privacy-preserving photos using the tilt lens (and had fun with less light, as it's f1.4).

    #emf #emf24 #emf2024 #emfcamp #emfcamp24 #emfcamp2024

  31. Null sector at nearly 1am: 90dB
    Applause for volunteers: 90dB

    🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎

    #emfcamp #emf2024 #emfcamp24

  32. Proper German style Techno in Null Sector starting at 20:00. Please come and make me happy playing for you! #emf2024 #emf24 #emfcamp2024 #emfcamp24 #emfcamp

  33. Another happy customer: @JoshMurray

    The special machine is car polisher, not tested on animals, does proper job for humans…

    Still have some some space / time / energy to fit you in for a back fixing session 💪🏋️🤸

    #emfcamp#emfcamp2024#emfcamp24#emf2024#emf24#emf

  34. 🚨 Shop is shut! 🚨

    Oh no!! You forgot to collect your T-shirt!

    Because info has a kind heart, we will be a collection point for T-shirts for 1600-1830 today (Sunday) ONLY.

    Hydrate, then come get them. Now, ideally.

    #emfcamp #emf2024 #emfcamp24

  35. Had another great evening in #NullSector last night enthusiastically talking to people about my #TelephoneExchange etc

    A couple of people helped me to fill in some of the story about the exchanges life at Ffestiniog, and I've updated the website to be a-bit-less-wrong as a result!

    Today is the last day I'll be running the exchange at #emfcamp - but I've got stuff to see and do today, so opening hours will be eratic... but...

    if you want to play with a #strowger switch, come find me! #emf2024

  36. OK EMF gang, I need YOUR help! I am doing live visuals on stage B this evening at 22:40 for the ace @feralfive with their Truth Is The New Gold show. Part of the show involves Kat singing your toots. Send us your musings on “truth” (EMF or otherwise) with hashtag #emftruth

    #EMF2024 #emfcamp #LiveVisuals #FlitterLang #LiveMusic

  37. Magical time in this playable installation @emf last night! Can’t wait to play more tonight, on stage with @feralfive and @jonathanhogg Stage B 22:40

    #emf #emfcamp #emf2024 #emfcamp24 #emftruth #truthisthenewgold #music

  38. Today’s the day - send us your truth/thoughts on truth. Personal, philosophical, @emf related or beyond. Use #emftruth on here.

    AV don @jonathanhogg will scoop them into the live algorithmic visuals for our Truth Is The New Gold show, Stage B 22:40

    #emf #emfcamp #emf2024 #emfcamp24 #truthisthenewgold #livemusic #livevisuals #electronicmusic #algorithmicvisuals #flitterlang