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OBD-II: Obviously Broken Design, Too... My Introduction into car-hacking (emf2026)
Is it still your car? With a modern car running between 100 and 150 small computers - ECUs - the question is hard to answer. In 2015 some hackers too…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Lights, Spectrometer, Action! (emf2026)
Come and watch me point a spectrometer at a load of things, and teach you about how light interacts with stuff. What’s a spectrometer, you ask? Well …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How To Debug A Human: An Engineer’s Guide To Emergency Medicine (emf2026)
What does designing software have in common with keeping people alive? More than you might think, probably. Decomposing software problems might take …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The automation wars... One marriage, two tech philosophies (emf2026)
My husband and I have been together for 19 years, since meeting at university. We’re opposites in many ways but have somehow made it work. He loves s…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Design decisions behind the Tildagon - a technical walkthrough (emf2026)
A few years back we came up with the concept of a reusable event badge, and built the Tildagon. I'd like to tell you how it came to be, and walk you …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Phones for the Deaf (emf2026)
Have you ever gotten a call from a relay operator who wants to connect you with someone who's using a text phone? Did you hang up? Stop it! I want to…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
So - how does the Internet really work (emf2026)
Learn about the fascinating and fun world of computer networks and the Internet - with no previous knowledge required. Have you ever wondered how th…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Breaking in to buildings with boobs (emf2026)
James Bond would have been a better spy if he were female. I've broken into dozens of buildings, from banks and museums to law firms and medical ins…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Dubstep Carrots - your gateway vegetable to accessible music making (emf2026)
Do we decide if we can play an instrument before we've even seen it? How much of our self-belief about our musicianship is based on adverse childhood…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
They Forgot What Happened Last Time: hacking the Windows 365 Link (emf2026)
The Windows 365 Link is a thin client, running a special edition of Windows 11, that can only connect to a "Windows 365 Cloud PC" and is otherwise us…
2 months, 2 weeks ago