EMF2024 Day 3 - Camera Fun

What a lovely day

It’s the final day of the festival today. And the weather is perfect. Started the day with one of the best talks so far, all about the fun and games that were had when open-sourcing the Covid app. The good news is that Open Source is now firmly part of government policy when embarking on large projects. But it took a fair bit of pushing to get there. Then onto a talk about train timetabling. Then Jenny List did a great talk on her fun and games converting a Super 8 movie camera into a digital one.

Old cameras by an old camera

After the session, in the speaker questions tent, there was a lot of discussion about analogue photography and how much fun it is. I left with two thoughts in mind. Firstly that the next EMF will have more analogue film content. And secondly that I’m going to try to track down a Super 8 camera to play with.

Badge hacking

After a bit to eat it was a talk from the EMF badge team. The badge is a really nice piece of engineering, a lot of which is going to get carried forward into the next EMF event. This is a great idea. It means that we can work on apps knowing that they can be used at the next event. One problem with the badge is that there is so much going on at EMF - and you don’t want to miss any of it by spending too much time coding. Next time we should be able to turn up with a bunch of things that we will have tested on the real hardware before the event, which is lovely.

After the badge talk we went to one about 3D printing rocket engines and finally one about sending anything to anywhere. Then it was time for the closing ceremony (very sad) and another trip to the bar and Null Sector (slightly less sad).

EMF in good weather shock

Hacky Racers

Old telephones!

The food was all great