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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Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham Bodgeham BODGEHAM-ON-WYE!
#emfcamp #emf #emfcamp2024 #emf2024
(please send me this song!!)
A look behind the scenes with the lasers on the Null Sector Stage.
A very, very cool mask.
1. A Rabbit clock, with the Rabbit telecommunications logo ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_(telecommunications)
2. The Scottish Consulate having a bit of fun with buckfast. They called this the hangover simulator.
3. Look Mum No Computer dropped by the telephone exchange in Null Sector and left a note. I did see him roaming around but didn't really get the chance to say hello
4. a speaker room, immerse yourself with sound. by @ideoforms
We definitely have zero regrets camping within range of Null Sector. For reference, this video was recorded at half past 1 in the morning.
One of the merchants in the Null Sector night market had a 3D printer set up, so you could watch the lizards being 3D printed in real time!
The CCC (Community Cultivation Collaboration) tent. To fit with the theme of solarpunk, there was a greenhouse tent set up behind the lounge where you could donate plants and take new plants home with you. Or if you really wanted to, you could listen to a cabbage. I tried listening to the cabbage and all I heard was, uh, cabbage. yeah, I heard cabbage.
1, 2. The Button. One of the exhibits installed in The Robot Arms tent, There are two timers, you wait for the smaller timer to hit 0, then you can print off a receipt with a barcode to recieve a pin badge. If you are patient enough, you can sit and wait for half an hour to recieve a level 6 pin badge.
3. MastoDot, a realtime fediverse dot matrix printer monitoring the emf2024 hashtag, by @mattgrayyes, also making a presence in The Robot Arms.
4. One of the many public telephones you could find around the campsite, including multiple stickers with phone numbers you could call.
1. "IN EVENT OF CATASTROPHIC FAILURE - DIAL 3273"
2, 3. A quick visit to the ECHQ tent, including a BBC Master displaying EMF Ceefax and a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT laptop, and a chameleon phone!
4. another ad for CuTEL, with the bragging rights of being "The UK's Largest Dial Up ISP !"
This is Stumpadelic Sound, a musical instrument that is made out of a tree stump. If you were looking for peak solarpunk at EMF this was definitely the tent to visit!
1. Zapp, a reflex test game where you press the blue and green buttons as they light up while avoiding the red buttons.
2. The exterior of The Robot Arms
3. Zombie shooting range, a shooting gallery using nerf darts, brought over to EMF Camp from Pi Wars https://piwars.org/2024-disaster-zone/challenges/zombies/
4. A physical version of MS Paint. This installation was so popular I didn't actually manage to have a go on it myself. I believe this was also part of the clippy ARG that was happening across the campsite, which I am also kinda gutted I didn't have the spare time to look into since I really dig the windows 95 theme. @dreamcat
Some pics of the arcade, which I believe was lovingly curated by @CatherineFlick
I had a fun time volunteering to keep an eye on the cabinets and making sure they were always displaying what they were set up to display, it was also a nice opportunity to have a chat with some of the people who made the games and curious visitors who were there to enjoy the games.
As a former computer games art student, I love how the arcade was focused on indie games this year, in comparison to 2022 which was pretty much just retro arcade games I'd already seen at plenty of other locations. Don't get me wrong, I love retro arcade games, it's just good to see something different every once in a while, and you can actually talk to the people who made the games as well.
I'd also like to comment on the Marathon cabinet. If I wasn't so busy during the weekend I totally would have "wasted" 4 hours of my time pressing the buttons on that cabinet. I have the patience!!
More delicious food from the volunteer kitchen, and some plant-based ice cream! ohhh I wish I could have more...
1. A giant version of rush hour in the maths tent, I remember spending hours playing this game when I was a kid.
2. A washing machine on wheels...? I might need a little bit of help for context on this one, I kept seeing it around the campsite and I'm pretty sure it did have the name of it stuck on the side, but I didn't get a photo of it. Either way, this entirely fits in with some of the many mad things you find at the campsite
3. Prizegiving for @FieldFX ~ alongside everything that was happening at camp, I helped organize a whole demoparty, which happened in the afternoon on Saturday. I unfortunately didn't get any photos/videos of the party itself since I was in charge of the compo machine and was focused on presenting the compos. The prizes were ceramics created by my parents.
4. There was some kind of shenanigans going on at the swap shop involving furries and orphan sources, this was too funny not to include here.
Some heavy beats being dropped by duckbust3r next to the duck pond. 
A group meowing session was in full swing outside the entrance of the lounge, everyone was encouraged to bring a Blåhaj with and meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow? meow!
Gotta appreciate how cool the EMF 24 sign was this year, with flowing water, LEDs, bubbles and windmills (video to follow)
here's a video of the sign, so you can get an idea of how dynamic it was
The final night of Null Sector
1. One of the hacky racers being driven around inside null sector, carrying a (presumably) empty box of club mate
2. Someone had been sticking fake plug sockets in places around the campsite where there definitely shouldn't be plug sockets. I remember finding another one in a sink next to the toilets as well.
3. The fluroclock was located inside Null Sector this year, someone had left the message "LGBT" on it.
4. Extreme Kits demonstrating lots of different DIY kits in the night market
Sending a fax to @EMFFacsimile - Using the phone network at EMF you could also send faxes to any village that had a fax machine set up.
Null Sector was very quiet after the DJs had finished, the only sound that remained was the last of the people hanging around at the Cybar and.. the escape room..? Ignore what I said in the video, this was recorded at 2am, not 1am.. which makes it even more amusing. I'm just imagining a group of people trapped in the escape room, even long after EMF Camp has finished.
1. A view of the night market at Null Sector, after all the merchants have left.
2, 3, 4. Lots of lasers and pretty lights shining over the lake (video to follow)
A video recording of the lasers shining over the lake, this was very relaxing to sit and watch at the end of the day.
Alas, the end of EMF Camp was fast approaching. What better way to end the night than with karaoke at the Milliways village. 
Teardown under way, and the final photos to end this thread.
EMF Camp has been incredible this year, even moreso than it was when I attended in 2022. Putting together this very long thread has made me very excited for what's to come in the future and I look forward to seeing everyone again at WHY Camp next year and EMF in 2026. I tried to cover as much as I could with this thread, and this definitely was not everything!
The second photo in this post is dedicated to @gsuberland, if this isn't your van there must be something wrong 
If you enjoyed this thread, then check out my previous hacker camp threads for more:
MCH 2022: https://chitter.xyz/@Violet/108731610716993017
EMF 2022: https://chitter.xyz/@Violet/108436519861919761
Also a huge huge thank you and big hugs go to @gsuberland for helping sort out my ticket for EMF this year, I wouldn't have been there without you. (I owe you a lot in return, we can talk about that when the time comes)
It's time for an MCH photo/video thread! Like I did with EMF camp last month, all photos and videos will be tagged with #mch2022 so please mute that tag if you do not want to see them! Hopefully it won't break this time.
@Violet I did enjoy the laser hire van :D
No problem on the ticket! Glad to have you there.
@John I did notice it was a thing, I unfortunately didn't get a chance to check it out since my badge wasn't downloading apps properly, then I lost my screen
(I did manage to retrieve a replacement at the end of camp though)
Violet Procyon 🦝
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
Chaos
Jonty Wareing
Kestral
Trikkitt
mocoo
Rairii (bootloader unlocked, MSR_LE set)
Prof. Catherine Flick
Joe
Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸)
Matt Round