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Building a Mostly-Local, Mildly Judgemental Home Assistant (emf2026)
Voice assistants are getting easier to deploy, but they’re still generic. This talk follows my attempt to build a mostly-local Home Assistant voice s…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Why The Monkey Escaped the Cage (emf2026)
Robin Ince is a multi award winning comedian, author, broadcaster, bibliomaniac and a populariser of scientific ideas. He is perhaps best known as th…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
🔒Lock Picking Robot! 🤖🔓 (emf2026)
An open source lock-picking robot, which counterintuitively is designed to make locks more secure. Made as an alternative to master keys, which are u…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Xelatype: a journey through time and space (emf2026)
In my quest for Weird Art, long have I wanted to build a digital slit-scan camera. The idea was to take a linear CCD, a load of RAM, and glue them to…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Life on a Pale Red Dot (emf2026)
What could other worlds look like? Exoplanetology — the study of planets orbiting stars other than our sun — is rapidly progressing, and researchers …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Infrastructure Review (emf2026)
Members of the EMF infrastructure teams will talk about how we made the event happen this year, with all the important statistics. Licensed to the pu…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Levitation, from hovercrafts to holograms (emf2026)
Levitation is a popular trope of magical media, but are we actually able to defy gravity and suspend things in the air? The short answer is yes. And…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"Don't set fire to the singer!"; Making a video jacket for a world concert tour. (emf2026)
A deep dive into the process of designing and implementing a fully custom-built wearable video screen, which was used on a 50-date international aren…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Stimulating Brains Without Touching Them: A Story of Magnets, Hype, and Open Science (emf2026)
For over 100 years now, being able to take an image of brain activity has been a really useful approach to understanding how brains work. But, more r…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Did a Robot Knit Your Jumper? (emf2026)
Machine knitting has grown in use and popularity over the past decade as domestic knitting machines have been rescued from dusty attics. Computerised…
2 months, 2 weeks ago