emf2018

Everyone has visited a hacker conference, but not many have seen it through the eyes of an organizer. As someone who has worked hard behind the scenes to make SHA2017 one of the more awesome events, I am giving you a firsthand experience on the good, the bad and the ugly of event organisation. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Members of the EMF infrastructure teams (network, power, video, telephony) will give some insight into how we delivered these services this year. We'll explain particularly some of the new challenges faced at Eastnor, and the new services we've delivered, along with sharing some statistics on how they were used. This year we'll also talk about some of the automation we've developed over the last few events to ease our workload and ensure consistency. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Orbs are located all over the site, hung in lots of locations (aiming for 30). Players use an RFID card to capture the orb for their team, changing the orbs colour. A website shows which team hold which orbs and tracks who is winning, with a live scoreboard in the null sector. This talk is a breakdown of how it all works, the orbs themselves and the game architecture. The hardware inside the orbs, why those parts were selected, and how they interact with each other. The software design and game architecture, and how all of that flows together. This will also cover the trials and tribulations of making the game work and building the finished products. about this event: https://c3voc.de

In 1976, in an amusement park in Southern California, the crew of The Six Million Dollar Man were setting up a scene in a fun house. They moved a waxwork dummy, accidentally broke off its arm, and discovered that rather than being made of wax, it was made of a real dead guy. With a bit of investigation, the coroner discovered it was Elmer McCurdy, a failed bank robber who died in 1911. Between his death and his discovery, he visited sideshows, hung out at Niagra Falls, rode on rollerskates, became a drug addict, and inspired the look of Skeletor from the He-Man cartoons and toys. We'll get into Elmer's actual life, his adventures after his death, and where he's residing now. FUN TIMES HAD BY ALL about this event: https://c3voc.de

ArduTouch makes way cool sound, music, and noise! It is an open hardware, Arduino-compatible musical instrument with a touch keyboard, amp, and speaker. It is easy to build -- designed for total beginners to learn to solder together. It provides a very low cost, yet powerful, method for making music/sound/noise, and a fun way to learn Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for generating music/sound/noise. This talk will show beginners how the ArduTouch music synthesizer kit makes use of DSP to create its large diversity of music/sound/noise. Mitch will also explain how the touch keyboard works, as well as the cheap amplifier/speaker built into the board. The ArduTouch Arduino library works on any Arduino board and Mitch will demonstrate how to make use of this library to create your own unique synthesizers -- both by hacking some of the many examples it comes with, and by making use of its high-level functions. This talk will also include a demo of some of the music the ArduTouch can make, as well as some wonderful nasty noise! A workshop for soldering together ArduTouch music synthesizer kits will be held before the talk on Sunday at 1pm at the Hardware Hacking Area (Camp: G). about this event: https://c3voc.de

LoRaWAN is a long-range and low-power communication system used to connect physical devices to servers. It is a set of physical and logical protocols used to connect ultra low bandwidth devices across a large area. This talk first gives an overview the technology used, why you would use it, and giving some examples of where it is being used today. It then follows the challenges of rolling out a regional LoRaWAN network. This is an accessible technical talk. It contains technical information of interest to those wanting to work with this technology, but it should be understandable by those who are less technical. The speaker has been connecting hardware to the internet for over two decades and is a member of the team rolling out of a regional LoRaWAN network. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Earlier in the year i was confronted with an ANPR system at the garage at my house so i started playing with it. The talk covers methods legal in the Netherlands where the PoC was made. I focus on the technology, on the implementation as Parking Garage access control. The topic does cover areas of speed control and other forms of law enforcement. I have not attacked those but assume that the attack would also work there. I even suspect that truck drivers have found the same and do the attack on a large scale. about this event: https://c3voc.de

What are the tools to effectively manage a hackerspace? In this talk I’ll walk you through the infrastructure and services that we chose to set up at our lab, as well as the rationale behind the choice. We’ll explore how can people communicate better with the right tools, and what is needed to maximize collaboration potential. The talk starts with what is in our experience needed to communicate effectively in a medium sized group (50-100 people), and then illustrates the tools and open source software that can be used to achieve that. There will be details on how to set up Discourse, Gitlab, Dokuwiki with central authentication via SAML and how FreeIPA can be used to manage hackerspace members’ access to both external (public) services and internal (wifi and computer login). about this event: https://c3voc.de

Nobel-prize winning Professor Richard Feynman is known not only for his dramatic contributions to theoretical physics, his teaching of physics and his testimony on the Challenger disaster, but also for his unconventional life. Noted for picking locks, questioning authority, and unapologetic playing of bongos, the physics superstar also dabbled in life drawing and testified to the acceptability of sexwork in the community. In this talk, I'll mix comedy, physics and biographical details to explain why Feynman is famous (in a way suitable for people who haven't studied physics past school) and also why we should beware of buying into his personality cult. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Light is managed using lenses, objectives, telescopes. In theatre or TV, it is common to see spotlights following characters and laser lights creating special effects. Similar control on sound is difficult: you need expensive sets of speakers, like the ones in musical festivals, in ultrasound scanners, and in haptic devices. In this talk, I will introduce another way: using 3D-printed materials, specially-engineered to manipulate sound. Using tractor beams, levitation pods (for polystyrene beads) and other demos, I will guide the audience towards a (not-so-far) future where what we see in science fiction movies like Iron Man or Minority Report is real. A world where two people will be able to listen at two different programs from the same radio or to receive personalised sound messages without headphones. A world where music at outdoor festivals and in beer gardens will be managed while preserving airflow. A world where sound control is a DIY task. about this event: https://c3voc.de

As Pi Wars approaches its 5th year, we want to tell you why and how we put on a two day competitive event that challenges teams of school children, their teachers, families and adults to make robots. The robots are all built with the Raspberry Pi as the main controller, but apart from a size limit, teams can do whatever they like. And what they do even surprises us! Come and find out how robots are more than just radio controlled cars; they are art and engineering combined! about this event: https://c3voc.de

Falling generally is consider bad. It hurts at best, sometimes fatally. However some folks like to jump out of planes and actively seek to fall even faster. Earlier this year, CBBC wanted to accelerate a TV presenter to the speed of a diving peregrine for the series “Beyond Bionic”, this required extra speed and thus the “Jet Boot” project was born. This talk will cover the technologies we used to help Andy Torbert fall even faster, specifically the use of 3D printing to make the final system a reality, whilst covering some of the challenges of trying to attach jet engines to the human body, not setting anyone on fire, and the potential of jet packs, jet boots and other flying platforms for future transportation (sensible or otherwise!) about this event: https://c3voc.de

Its difficult to say how many mountains in the world have never been climbed - probably thousands. Breaking new ground is always exciting, whether in mountaineering or mathematics. We'll talk about our experiences making several first ascents of unclimbed peaks in the Indian Himalaya and the Kyrgyz Tien Shan, and some of the surprising similarities to our other lives in research and development. We'll cover some of the specifics of pulling off a climbing trip further afield than the Alps, and also talk generally about big projects in unknown territory. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A while ago, I started building a robot that would find the developer who'd broken the build and call them a cock. Because of depression, I never finished it, and the robot came out weird anyway. More recently I started on a cuckoo clock that calls you a pillock, among other things. This talk will be an attempt to explore why I keep building abusive machines. There will also be live demonstrations and fulmination about ESP8266 hardware. about this event: https://c3voc.de

The talk gives an overview and describes the built-in support for prototyping, testing, and running Simulink models on Raspberry Pi®. It covers how to build a basic robot that demonstrates autonomous behaviour based on vision from the ground up. The Simulink built-in support for hardware enables hobbyist, engineers and students to access the hardware capabilities of the popular credit-card sized, ARM11 based Raspberry Pi® computer, from within Simulink environment, and deploy for embedded implementation. about this event: https://c3voc.de

I'm James, and I'm responsible for firing literally hundreds of billions of (low power) laser pulses at the countryside in the UK through my work at Gigaclear, a rural FTTH ISP. We're using mobile mapping technologies to make better maps of the country for our network planners. In this talk I'll provide an overview of Mobile Mapping technologies, precision location (and the technology to achieve it), and share some open source workflows and tools for LiDAR data. I'll also talk a little about running a large-scale survey project, and some interesting challenges we've faced in both capture and data management. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Chromatouch & Coral will showcase new research in collaboration with Gravitational Wave researchers at University of Birmingham, with a synth connected a Michelson interferometer; not sonifying data, but using direct control voltage information to make music. Chromatouch [Leon Trimble] is a digital artist who works in audio visual performance, specialising in immersive video and audio synthesis. Coral Manton is an interdisciplinary artist, technologist and researcher at I-Dat.Org For this piece she has visualised a ripple in spacetime/gravitywave which she will modulate live in Touchdesigner to complete the immersive audio visual performance. about this event: https://c3voc.de

The first self-balancing skateboard was made by Ben Smithers in Norfolk around 2007. This inspired me to build my own in 2008 and along the way I discovered how to program in C, Arduino's, IMU fusion algorithms, not realising this would be as hard as it turned out to be. A gyro was £160 back then, a 3 axis IMU is now about £5, how things have changed. Since then I have built one and two wheeled boards, 2 wheeled wheelchair prototype and many others, documented on YT and Instructables, long before such gadgets came out from China, culminating in a 3000W hubmotor 1 wheeled motorcycle which I plan to bring to the camp and demonstrate. I test these on Pembrey and the famous Pendine Sands beaches in Wales, with video clips I can present. Imposter credentials: I am a hospital doctor not an engineer. Electronic hobbyist. Until I started this sequence of machines I had only coded in BASIC aged 14 on my Sinclair ZX81 (built from a kit obviously). about this event: https://c3voc.de

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You should be afraid of your smart home. Really afraid! I've wired up my house with dozens of Internet of Things gadgets. Some spy on me, some let in hackers, some send all my data back to China, some give me electric shocks, some betray my medical information to the police. Find out how I've ruined my domestic bliss and made my vacuum cleaner self-aware. Learn how to protect yourself and how to critically evaluate what you buy for your home. Content Warning. This talk contains frank discussion about sex and death. about this event: https://c3voc.de