Violet Procyon 🦝It's #emfcamp photo/video dump time! This is going to be a very large thread. 
Image descriptions will be added later.
For reference, this is my second time attending EMF Camp, and the 4th hacker camp I have attended over all.
1. Wednesday night, arrival time. Feels good to be back. :D
2, 3, 4. Very good selection of food stalls again, plenty of choice for vegans and vegetarians, not too expensive either.
1. I did some volunteer work, spending several hours assembling and flashing hundreds of tildagon badges until they were all complete.
2. The Cyber Pusher, located in the Robot Arms. From the mind of Elger, this is definitely one of my personal favourite installations, although not my first time encountering it.
3, 4. Scotland was at it again, this time introducing everyone to "deep-fried buckfast w/ irn-bru sauce". I've never tasted buckfast before, although have tried a little bit of irn-bru. This isn't as disgusting as you think, it's very sweet.
The climax button. If you spent any time in The Robot Arms, you will more than likely have heard the noise this thing was making. You press the button, you recieve a climax.
by Tim Hunkin https://www.timhunkin.com/index.htm
Appy Bird! I'm sure you probably know what 'Flappy Bird' is by now. The special thing about this version is it's not on a screen, the entire cabinet is operated by moving parts. Created by @alphabetter
1. A printout of a long reddit post about an American tasting Buckfast for the first time, stuck on the side of the Scottish Consulate's tent.
2. Over in the lounge, there was an Apple QuickTake camera you could borrow for your own usage at camp.
3. This is a clock. A precision clock. It is very precise. It folds in half! https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iii
4. Club-Mate! It's not a hacker camp without this beverage.
JoustMania, a game of jousting that is operated by PlayStation Move controllers. Walk around and jostle your opponents to try and be the last one standing. Keep your controller straight, if you hear a glass smash sound and your light turns red, you are out of the game. Check it out on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1093850/JoustMania/
The 'Tektronix 4006-1 Graphics Terminal' from 1975. This installation was sooooo coool! Even though the graphics you see on the screen were being drawn in very slowly, it was still hypnotic. I spent several minutes just staring at this display drawing the very sharp graphics in.
credit: @stepleton
1. The Milton Keynes Tea Tent Services. I liked their signage
2. Polycoin returned to EMF Camp, under the new name 'Polygen'. Their NFC points had a few fun easter eggs I noticed this time round. If you tapped a card you used to play the game at MCH, the point would greet you with "Welcome back MCH player". Using a bank card would also joke about making a transaction.
3. I remembered to bring fairy lights for the tent this time! I was sharing with Vurpo who was staying with me in Suffolk for a couple weeks all the way from Finland.
4. A view of the Field-FX workshop at night. I provided some rainbow fairy lights for the pole, unfortunately the pole ended up falling over a day later and nobody put it back up again.
1, 2. A couple more photos of the campsite at night, during the Thursday night.
3. An abandoned traffic light. This was pretty much in the same location outside the Scottish Consulate for the whole duration of camp.
4. Be Gay, Do Endocrimes. Shoutouts to all my trans and enby friends who were at EMF this year 
This was part of a talk about Endocrine Biohacking, a really good talk.
A rotating speaker underneath an umbrella, playing some weird droning music. Not entirely sure what was going on here.
1. South London Makespace was serving free breakfast every morning, I stopped by there to have some toast and honey. I love how open each village is with regards to sharing resources with visitors and making sure everyone stays healthy during camp.
2. The Twin Peaks phone, part of a mysterious ARG involving owls hidden around the campsite. I remember this also being at EMF 2022 but I never really looked into it. You dial numbers on the phone to get hints, and there is a reward at the end. By @barnoid
3, 4. The volunteer kitchen. I did a shift for this on the first day and ended up doing the washing up for the most part. Hygeine is important! Thank you everyone else who volunteered in the kitchen, you did an awesome job and the food was very delicious.
Laura Mathews puppets! I absolutely adored these,,
look at the little guy 
Hacky Racers! Another very fun feature that returned to EMF Camp this year. Build your own vehicle and bring it in for a race around the circuit.
1. Two tildagon badges. As a tradition at hacker camps you can recieve an electronic badge to wear as part of your ticket booking. This year, the badge had modular attachments you could plug in called 'hexpansions'. You could also use a USB C to USB C cable as the lanyard.
2. Iain Softley, the director of the cult classic 'Hackers' was at EMF Camp this year, introducing the screening for the movie and also doing a Q&A afterwards.
3. The cinema tent where Hackers was screened was packed! I didn't stick around to watch it since I've seen this movie so many times before, the introduction was fun to watch though.
4. A funny ad for the endocrime talk. "Become Girl / Boy / Nonbinary". Someone had added a sticker that said "Snack". What gender is Snack? 
Null sector was ~amazing~ again. I already had high expectations for it this year, and my expectations were blown away. I love all of the world building they have going on with Polybius Biotech and this years' installations fit really well with the solarpunk theme. These pics were taken during a h0ffman set, video to follow.
H0ffman playing bangers onstage at Null Sector. I ended up taking quite a lot of videos of the stage at Null Sector. I won't be posting all of them.
Even more of the Null Sector stage. Look, if you're going to play that raccoon song, you have my attention. You have no idea how fast I dashed back to the stage just to record this video.
"I played Tetris on a guy" was not on the list of things I thought I'd be saying after EMF Camp this year, but here we are.
Some more photos of Null Sector. You can tell where I was hanging out most of the evenings
1. An interactive projected map of the campsite you could connect to and control from your phone, created by @boxly
2. The night market in Null Sector, where merchants can come in and sell their artsy or techy things. A little bit too cramped compared to how it was last time, I had to wait for the crowds to move out before I could get a proper look at what was on display. No fudge this year either :(
3, 4. The Magic Teapot made it to Null Sector, housing the Cybar. Really chill area to hang out in the evening, specially with the warm fireplace in the middle.
A telephone exchange! This was a very fun installation to play about with, you could even use these phones to call anyone else on the EMF phone network as well
Credit: @lpbkdotnet
A neat gyro-based fluid simulation on a small LED display. I didn't catch the name of the person who made this but if you're reading this, I loved the little keychain one you made (not shown in this video)
Outside the entrance of Null Sector, there was a MIDI keyboard and a joystick hooked up to some lasers you could control.
So hey, h0ffman did not one, but two!! two performances!! in one night. What a treat that was. After his performance at Null Sector, he went over to Stage B to perform a live Amiga set
Some video of H0ffman playing 'Way too Rude' as part of his Amiga DJ Set.
After h0ffman was finished, the Acid Pig took to the stage.
The pig was some kind of modular synth, and there was also a hat with rotating owls. I don't really know what else to say about this one, it was very unusual.
A late night walk around Null Sector. I wanted to see if I could take a video to capture the general atmosphere of the location. Words and photos really struggle to do justice for how amazing the experience was.
A computer can do handwriting, too! This installation seemed to be a plotter connected to a computer which was programmed to write a letter. You could take a sheet of paper, place it in the marked area underneath the pen and press a button to make it write. Let's see this thing write an essay 
(if you were responsible or know who was responsible for this installation, please let me know so I can tag this post later)
1, 2. A couple photos of the Null Sector stage very early in the morning after everyone has left
3. The tent myself & vurpo were sleeping in, we made it as comfy as possible
4. If you're a Star Wars fan you'd probably love this. There is a 'Droid Builders' club in the UK. From what I can tell, they get together to build replica Star Wars props. Very cool!
1. Speczilla! A giant playable ZX Spectrum installation by @gasman -- I remember when gasman attempted to bring this to EMF 2022 and things really didn't work out, so it's great to finally see this as a functional installation.
2, 3. @TinaStormcaller doing a DJ set up on the Null Sector stage
4. A pizza from the pizza stand. Very delicious home-cooked pizza. I really appreciate how considerate the people who ran this stand was with regards to food sensitivities. I did an order from their menu and asked them to replace the tomato with onion and they went ahead and served exactly what I asked for. More food stands need to pay attention to people who may not be able to have certain ingredients.
This video was a little bit of an "of the moment" kinda thing since I quickly pulled my camera out while I was on the way to Stage A to watch a talk. The little robots were called 'crawlybots'. You can see more about them here https://crawlybots.uk
1, 2. Many, many ads posted on a notice board outside of stage B. Every time I walked by it there would be something new hiding somewhere.
3.Matt Parker (Stand Up Maths) & co hosting a stage show called An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail, this was very funny
4. CuTEL, the phone provider at EMF, had some very good signs/posters up around the campsite, this was one of them
A birdhouse, but no ordinary birdhouse. This one had a button you could press to recieve a "daily message". In my case, the daily message was "Worry less!". So true.
(if you are responsible for this or know who is responsible, please let me know so I can tag you!)
Checking out the night market again. Here be dragons! and little lizards! also some very expensive head gear which I totally would have bought if I could afford it.
Hanging out on the Null Sector stage with @2xAA and @gsuberland 
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(please send me this song!!)
A look behind the scenes with the lasers on the Null Sector Stage.
A very, very cool mask.
Sam
Bodgeham-on-Wye@Violet here’s the original by Vicar Grimblesby, before @2xAA masterfully elevated it with his wonderful skills https://www.hughrawlinson.me/Bodgeham-Bodgeham-Bodgeham.wav
vurpo 🏳️⚧️ (2869)@Violet (pic #2) I saw who wrote the "HELLO" sticker above the bornhack poster!
It was me 
JP@Violet This little bubble of delightful swung music and playful sustainably made toy vehicles made my heart sing! ❤️
MrJoshua@Violet Thank you so much for capturing this walk through!
lpbkdotnet@Violet the phone exchange was mine!
I don’t suppose I could use a couple of seconds for a video I’m editing about it? I was so busy talking to people about it I completely forgot to film anyone actually using it!
@lpbkdotnet you're more than welcome to! here's the uncompressed footage https://f.violet.pm/2024/06/07/20240531_222337.mp4
Mark Watson (he/him)@Violet That will be @lpbkdotnet 's 50s phone exchange.
Russ Garrett
boxly@Violet Honoured by the mention, thank you!