Team Updates @ Orga Meet Dec 2024 (WHY2025)

Team Leads give a short update about the current status of their planning.

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How volunteers built and are now operating Hydro Power generation on the Thames (emf2024)

This is the story of Reading Hydro, how a group of volunteers built and are now operating a hydro generation plant on the Thames in Reading. From raising the £1.2M to the parts build by volunteers, an
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From Tax Law to Tangible Dreams: An Accidental Maker's Journey (emf2024)

I was trained as a tax lawyer and data scientist as a profession but I always wanted to build. I attended the my first EMF and was hugely inspired by the participants and presenters I met.

The follo
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Science Magic...Magic Science (emf2024)

To spell bind the audience, gasp, wonder and laugh.

Demonstrations, the eerie strange sound of the theremin and it's analogue, the musical saw. Resonance, levitating objects, and the occasional fun
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PowerPoint Karaoke (retro style) (emf2024)

GPT PowerPoint Karaoke in 2022 was a hit — but also GPT was toooooo good at generating the topics. Let’s go retro: HR training manuals, overhead transparencies, terrible diagrams from 1970s Open Unive
https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-329-powerpoint-karaoke-retro-style #ccc #emf2024 #StageA #talk #2024 #Day3 #329

How to map caves (emf2024)

Caves present a challenging environment to survey and map. Conditions are often wet, muddy and involve confined spaces. This talk will look at how the technology we have developed has changed how we m
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Whispered Secrets: Building An Open-Source Tool To Live Transcribe & Summarize Conversations (emf2024)

Are you secretly a spy and/or passionate about open-source? Maybe you don't trust a cloud-hosted service with your highly classified information, or perhaps you like to build things for yourself. In t
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From Makerspace to Outer Space (emf2024)

Going for a job in the space industry may seem like a moonshot but it's actually much closer than most people think - and a makerspace is a great place to start from.

I now work in the space industr
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Toys for Elephants (emf2024)

About the challenges and delights of designing playful interactive systems with elephants currently living in the UK, featuring elephants with brambles, supersize balls, giant sliders and didgeridoos,
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Up - A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us (emf2024)

Find joys hidden in plain sight - explore a slice taken from the surface of the Earth up into distant space and discover what we can see. From the glow of a glow-worm to the fuzzy smudge of a distant
https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-107-up-a-scientists-guide-to-the-magic-above-us #ccc #emf2024 #StageB #talk #2024 #Day3 #107