Electromagnetic Field Camp 2026
Electromagnetic Field (EMF) is a “hacker” camp which takes place every 2 years. Like previous editions, Nottingham Hackspace had a village, or dedicated camping area and we ran various events, and took various installations with us. It was all very exciting. More than usual, these projects took the form of collaborations with many members sharing the work and developing different parts. It was really lovely to work on something with other members of the ‘space, which is not something that happens very often outside of Hack The Space Days. Badge Like any good conference, EMF has a badge. EMF’s badge is a hexagonal “Tildagon” which is actually a rather powerful micro-computer. The tildagon is designed to be an expandable hardware platform, and we can make “hexpansions” to plug in and add more functionality. We wanted to make a Hexpansion to be the point of a soldering workshop. We settled on a rotary encoder that you would use to scroll through the solar system, and assembled a crack team of Steve (hardware), Gareth (graphics) and Mags (code). To save money, we wen