EMF2024 Day 2 - Blast from the past

Just when you thought it was safe….

One of the highlights of EMF is their “bring and buy” tent. You get all kinds of “tech junk” coming up and there are always folks at the tent picking things up and putting them down again. As we were walking towards it I joked that it would be rather amusing to discover one of my books on sale there.

Turns out that fate has a sense of humour too. There on the table was a copy of the first book I ever had published. Way back in 2007 myself and Donald Thompson from Microsoft wrote a little book about C# development with the .NET Micro Framework. It wasn’t a best seller, but they did ask me back to write some other books, which was nice. I decided to get it because I didn’t like the thought of it languishing there for the entire festival, waiting for a buyer….

After that it was time for some sessions. Started with a very good talk about why gas boilers suck. I’ve resolved to do something involving measuring the flow temperatures of the boiler. And possibly something involving peltier devices and radiators. Then on to a talk about how awesome the BBC Micro Elite game code is. Then a scary session about the way influencer-based techniques are being used by being used by governments. Then a session about fiddling with tech and finally something about making my projects more professional. All very good stuff.

Then, after tea, we took a wander around Null-Sector trying to take pictures with an old Polaroid camera. Such fun. Today I switched to a digital camera and grabbed a few shots..

I did a lot of coding on one of these.

Bubbles

Clocks at the bar

Apparently these are the most eco friendly propane gas jets youi can buy