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Thank you for coming to EMF 2014. Please do the following: Upload links to pictures, videos, blogs, etc on the Memories page. Leave positive and negative Feedback to help us plan future events. If you did a talk, add a link to the resources for your talk. Find the resources for talks you attended.

Thank you to everyone who gave a talk. If you didn't, then you should start thinking about what you could talk about at EMF 2016. The talk and workshop schedule can be found here.

There is a list of talks below, including links to resources from the talks and videos when available. If you gave a talk, please add anything which people light like to look back at (eg. suggested reading/resources, links to books on Amazon, templates for making anything you talked about).

Recorded talks are currently being edited/worked with to be uploaded to Youtube, etc. They are large files and it is a long, manual process. So please be patient while they're handled.

Past EMF Camp talks are available on archive.org: EMF 2012 Stage A EMF 2012 Stage B

Friday

Stage A

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
EMF 2014 Opening ceremony	Jonty Wareing
High Altitude Ballooning	Adam Greig
The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science	Zoe Cormier		Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll (Amazon)
Games Minus Industry	David Hayward
How to be an Effective Terrorist: fear and loathing in cyber security	Dr Jessica Barker
Hacking the ZX Spectrum	Ben Heck
The three main parties railroaded the Data Retention Act through in a week. Where does the fightback begin?	Tom Watson MP		Dial M for Murdoch (Amazon)
Showing keys in public: What could possibly go wrong?	Jos Weyers
Gasman's ZX Spectrum Chiptune Extravaganza	Matt Westcott
Dermot Jones plays Spanish guitar	Dermot Jones
Live coded techno	Yaxu (Alex McLean)		Software used was Tidal. More on live coding, algorave

Stage B

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
How Many Bugs Can a Time Server Have?	Mike Emery & Tim Brown
Tastes Great, Less Wordy: Document Natural Language Processing (for Beer)	Ben Fields
Not Safe For Work: Industrial Control System Security	bsb
The Making Of The·Grid	Adam Greig, David Turner
How buying multiple train tickets can be much cheaper than one	Matthew Somerville
Amateur Radio: The Original Nerd Hobby!	Ryan Sayre		Slide Deck
The ZX Spectrum - a secret history	Matt Westcott

Stage C

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
BaseBot	Tom Oinn
The Security of the Internet of Things	José Díez
Cryptris	Scary Boots
Can open data help save the world?	Gavin Starks
Lightning Talks
Fuzzy Fuzzy Logic	Joe Nash

Saturday

Stage A

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
Perfect session management in privacy-sensitive web applications	Elger ""Stitch"" Jonker
Materials and Makers	Deb Chachra
UCL Family Geek Showoff
Build your own quadrotor from scratch	Gavan Fantom
Alex Through The Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life	Alex Bellos		Alex's Adventures in Numberland (Amazon) Alex Through the Looking Glass (Amazon)
5 Scientific Tools That'll Blow Your Mind	DC
We don't need no stinkin' tension wrenches	Rob Wiegertjes		Submit lockpicking goofs
How we spent a year building a spaceship simulator in a caravan	Tom Wyatt
Reading Hitler's Mind: Bletchley Park and The First Computer	PJ Evans
An Operator's Guide to the Enigma Cipher Machine	Simon Singh		The Code Book (Amazon)
UCL Geek Showoff
Fakebit Polytechnic	Dave Green & Dave Pape
The 55th Flotilla (Live)	The 55th Flotilla
2xAA plays his Game Boy	2xAA
The 55th Flotilla (DJ set)

Stage B

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
What do we have in Computers?	Tom Hall
LaserTag - How Quasar works	Michael Turner
Emojli: How we accidentally built an app and why we never want to build one again.	Matt Gray, Tom Scott	YouTube
The Archers Avoider	Libby Miller
Introduction to Information Security and Privacy	Arjen Kamphuis
Beyond Materials: Invisibility and Perfect Imaging	Dr Saul J. Wiggin
How to stand for Parliament	James Smith
Where Games Break	Hannah Nicklin		Where Games Break
Hacking and healthcare	Amran
Vandalising your Github commit history for fun and profit	Sam Pikesley		Slides, Uncle Clive, Pokrovsky
Learning to Make – How I built an electromechanical display and taught myself basic electronics	Tom Lynch		Slides
MEGA GIRP	George Buckenham

Stage C

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
The Dilemmas of Sci-Fi (And How They're Dealt With)	Ashton Clarke
The digital democracy dream	Dan Jellinek
Mesh Your Brain	Alex (Merlin) Glowaski
Hackerspaces and Diversity	Amran		Interfaces - for solving modern hackerspace issues, amx109 (twitter)
Walt Disney World: This was supposed to be the future	Dan W
The softprinter	Tom Myers
How to use Twilio in ten minutes flat
Programming for impostors and scientists	Jane Charlesworth
Make metal castings from 3D Printed Moulds	Calum Douglas
SimPrints: Low-cost fingerprint scanners for the developing world	SimPrints
Lightning Talks
Multicast experiment: Who's on?
Security Quiz!	Elger ""Stitch"" Jonker "

Sunday

Stage A

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
Point Of Sale Device tricks: You could…live for free!	Greg Fragkos
Recreational Maths in a Field: Flexagons, Folding Tube Maps & Braiding	Matthew Scroggs		Write up
Telling stories about tech	Alice Bell
History of Rocketry	Jon London
Glass music, the nervous system, mesmerism and the threshold of beauty and harmony	Erica MacArthur
My Container Ship Holiday Slideshow	Dan W
Hacking biometric security	Nigel K Tolley
Miracle cures, superpowers and the zombie apocalypse	Christopher Binny
Collaborative Science Fiction Film made at EMF	MISS ALIA SHEIKH
Demoscene Showcase	Crypt and Rebelli0n
EMF 2014 retrospective: What did we do right?
EMF 2014 Closing ceremony	Jonty Wareing
Singer-Songwriter Hannah Howe	Hannah Howe
Gasman's ZX Spectrum Chiptune Extravaganza Part II	Matt Westcott
Experimental/Noise DJ-Set/Performance	MusicaDispersa

Stage B

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
Why are computers so @#!*, and what can we do about it?	Peter Sewell		slides
Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism	Vinay Gupta	YouTube
A brief guide to dog behaviour and human interaction	Stuart Livings		Magnet Link
Zoë Star; Neurotic IoT Machines from an Alternate Reality	Rachel Rayns
Disruptive disintermediation: selling open digital health services to the NHS	Carl Reynolds
Robotics and Computer Vision with MATLAB and Simulink	Owen McAree
USB tinkering for hackers and makers	Dominic Spill		slides project page
Evading Anti-virus	Mark A Williams
Trials and tribulations of a badge project	Matt Lloyd
DDD: Disney Driven Development	Melinda Seckington
Q&A on Physical Security with the worlds greatest lock hackers	Jos Weyers, Nigel K Tolley
EMF network in a field 2014	David Croft, Will Hargrave

Stage C

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
How to catch a cat burglar with a Slice of Pi	Derek Scuffell
Minimal effort web application security (a.k.a. how to make my job harder)	Graham Sutherland
A look at Linux containers, what they do and what they don't	David Leadbeater
Run your own infrastructure II	mc.fly
Our Data, Ourselves	Giles Greenway
Machine learning and its use in creepy internet stalking	Maria Han Veiga
Open Space Projects	Stephanie Pau
bach.js, an unhistory of how the great Baroque composer pioneered Javascript, 250 years before Netscape even existed	James Aylett
Lightning Talks
Surreal Numbers And Mathematical Games	Tom Hall		slides on Google Docs
Security Quiz!

Workshops

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
Make your own titanium spork	Richard Sewell		manufacturing steps and tool list photos of the results
Off-grid solar PV	Matt Little		Solar PV worksheet Battery worksheet

Installations

Title	Speaker	Video	Resources
The Tune On A Stick	Richard Sewell		Build notes and source code