2 days is not enough to recover from #emf2024
My wrists and ankles hurt too much for swim training that I pulled out after the warm up. Listen to your body.4 nights camping and 4 days standing takes it's toll.
Reminder if you’ve come back from #emf2024 with a covid-like illness but are testing negative: lateral flow tests have high false negative rates on current variants, requiring very high viral loads to show a positive result. Continue avoiding medically vulnerable people as a precaution, and test over the course of multiple days, whilst symptoms are still worsening.
Another photo begging request for the #emf2024 crowd: I’m looking for photos from Baturday, our program of bat-related activities from Saturday! Did you catch the bioacoustics workshop, the detector building workshop, or the bat walk? We’d love to see! Especially the bat walk!
On my flight home, and I have written a somewhat emotional blog post about my time at EMF and how it recharges me in a way almost nothing else does: "An Electromagnetic Force" https://aeracode.org/2024/06/05/emf-2024/
Ok we’ve all had a little while to bathe in our feelings, time for an important reminder: EMF is partly made possible by sponsorship, and it fucking sucked this year. Please, if you enjoyed EMF, and you’re sharing your experiences with others now and in the future, keep your eyes peeled and arms open for folks and entities that may want to become a sponsor in 2026. Email us at sponsor@emfcamp.org and we’ll be back in touch when time comes.
Highlight #10 (of 10): I cryptically posted about this before the festival but I couldn't be more pleased to have been involved in bringing the legendary James Braddell/Funki Porcini to the festival with the Laserium. This was hands-down the most exciting thing at EMF2024 for me. It was standing room only in workshop 4 on Saturday night, so especially cool to sit next to James and watch from behind the extraordinary 700 laser setup responsible for these effects
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
Highlight #6 (and we're on to the pieces that I am proud to have had a personal hand in bringing to the festival): A huge thanks to Malcolm Clark for specially bringing this teletype and getting it playing Colossal Cave Adventure for us. It fitted so perfectly with what we were trying to do with the new arcade this year and it was great seeing people being sucked into it and then tearing off and taking their adventure home with them.
Highlight #5: APPYBIRD!!! @alphabetter once again excelled in producing an absolute delight of a mechanical arcade game, which I realise now that I completely failed to take a picture of. So I’m pointing to @rc2014's picture instead:
Highlight #3: @jamesdarling's absolutely mesmerising Murmuration (slowed down here for effect). Honestly, I was not trying to baby-sit you that first night, James, I just really enjoyed sitting next to it for an hour 😂
Left #EMF2024 on Monday but I'm still trying to recover from the AWESOME. It was an absolute honour to be part of the Design Team in the lead-up and then see it all come together so beautifully!
I always love EMF, as do my kids, who will likely talk about it for the next two years like the did the last one!
And thank you @moraghickman for making furoshiki to enable my workshop :D still so pleased we got to actually meet IN PERSON after so many months of planning and chats!
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 :)
Another new #fediverse account to follow! If you built a TinyGS 🛰️ satellite 📡 ground station at #emfcamp#emf2024 (I did!), the project now has a presence on Mastodon -> @tinygs
I read somewhere that the #emf2024 talk livestreams were available for replay, but I can't find it now. How do I access this if so? Do I have to wait for them to go on YouTube?
The work features 132 spatially located LEDs, driven by 2x #Pimoroni Plasma Stick 2040W. They talk to a server, which supplies a function to set R,G,B each frame.
Is it the first demo to run on a tent? (probably not; the #demoscene folks are an inventive crowd 😄).
Enjoy!