Second plane late due to slow provision of buses. But home hopefully in a few hours… #emfcamp

🥰 #EMFCamp

https://aaronsplace.co.uk/blog/2026-07-20-emf-camp-2026.html

Today there was even some cake for a special occasion!
#emfcamp #BlobOnTour

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Blob the purple tentacle creature is lying on a table next to a chocolate cake looking at it. A spoon with some of the cake is underneath their tentacles.

Inflatable tetrapods!
I might steal this idea and make one for myself to deploy at @hackmas 🤔
#emfcamp #BlobOnTour

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A rainbow coloured tetrapod is standing in the grass. It's made from fabric and it's inflated. On top there's blob the purple tentacle creature.

We're collecting the @GCHQNET hexpansions! Wandering around the campsite, looking for these things and discovering all kinds of other things is a lot of fun, can recommend!
#emfcamp #BlobOnTour

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Blob the purple tentacle creature is lying on the EMF badge looking towards the side. Below them a PCB on a string is attached to the badge. In the background there's a sign about the GCHQ game.

This years nullsector once again is incredible. 👀
Blob even met a robot friend there!
#emfcamp #BlobOnTour

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A silver robot dog is standing on a wooden floor. On top of it, there's blob the purple tentacle creature. They got their tentacles spread out over the robot.

Wanna get to know blob more? Come to @hackmas in Austria in August!
We've put up some posters at the info boards to find out more.
#emfcamp #BlobOnTour

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Blob the purple tentacle creature is being held in front of a wall. A poster advertising Håck ma's Castle attached to the wall using some tape. The event is from 27.8. to 30.8.2026 at Schloss 1, 3631 Ottenschlag. Beside that, the poster is purple with a black castle being held by blob.

Blob has found a fur(r/b)y friend!
#emfcamp #BlobOnTour #emfurby

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A long white Furby Is being held in front of the camera. Its body makes a sharp bend and blob, the purple tentacle creature is lying on the lower part of its body. Blob is looking at the Furby with their neon green eyes.

Not sure whether this is another friend?
#emfcamp #BlobOnTour

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Close-up picture of a dalek. Blob, the purple tentacle creature is sitting on its eye, looking at the camera with their neon green eyes.

And that's EMF for us. It was an amazing week(end), met many friends and discovered so many interesting things. Already looking forward to 2028.
More photos of the event will follow later but now blob and I need to catch a train.
#emfcamp #BlobOnTour

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Blob, the purple tentacle creature is sitting on the headrest of a bus seat. Their tentacles are dangling down and they are looking at the camera with their neon green eyes.

Instead of going home directly, we're staying one night in Oxford. A lot of interesting old buildings and blob seems to like them too!
#emfcamp #BlobOnTour

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Blob, the purple tentacle creature is sitting on a weathered stone surface. They are looking at an old round stone building in the background. It has three visible stories, pillars on the façade and a few windows in between them.

Some drawings from the #emfcamp urban sketching session (if you can call it urban)

#emf2026

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A drawing in pencil and coloured felt tip of a geodesic dome between a tree, two tents, a flag and what I guess is probably an electrical relay box with bunting hanging from it

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A pencil drawing of someone sat by a path doing urban sketching. In the background are some people, tents, tables and a barbecue

#emfcamp 2026 was revitalising, inspiring, and full of beautiful, wonderful, incredibly clever people doing and talking about the most amazing things. I'm so grateful to everyone @emf who makes this whole experience of what the world could be like possible every two years. Bring on 2028 🩷

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PolyUniverse™️ Upload yourself to a better life (A sign from Null Sector)

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The EMF 2026 sign by the lake.

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PowerPoint Karaoke on Sunday, featuring the presenter trying to explain a mouse dancing next to a Cobalt-60 "drop and run" cask.

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The lasers and light show at Null Sector, viewed from afar.

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The noticeboard at the main entrance to site. It is headed with a title reading "Please do not reboot the field"! It has a map of the site on the left, and a number of smaller community notices dotted around below the "Please do not reboot the field" sign, placed there by different villages and other parts of the camp.

Back home from #emfcamp and have the post event blues but happy to be getting into a hot shower and then a real bed after camping for a week! It’s been a blast. Thanks everyone. ❤️

Bumped into @Devopstom

#EMFCamp

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Me with Tom O'Connor

@thechaoszone I did not manage to connect my laptop to the #EMFCamp WiFi and that was Fine, Actually

I am lying in an Actual Bed

#EMFCamp

Oh hi @jamesb

#EMFCamp

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Me with that James B

Made it to Lisbon! Second leg is at 23:40pm, the flight none of the crew like doing… #emfcamp

And yes, TAP cover this route (Lisbon to Madeira) earlier and later than a bunch of uk cities and their trains. Good infra is pretty damn cool 🚆✈️🚃🚌

I’ve come up with my project for next #EMFCamp already, so I guess it’s time to learn some hardware design and robotics… 🧀🤖

Woo home. Completely exhausted but still in that post #emfcamp thing where I keep remembering cool stuff I saw or interesting people I spoke to. Not a natural extrovert so feeling a bit peopled out, but so glad I got to speak to so many cool folks. There’s nowhere quite like it and you’re all brilliant. Massive thanks to orga, crew, volunteers and especially @installations who were magnificent.

Last night, as #EMFCamp came to a close, I heard someone say that everyone, not just billionaires, should be able to "move fast and break things."

I disagree. Not about taking power away from billionaires, but about the idea that we still need to move fast and break things at all.

If there's one thing EMF has taught me - this year in particular - it's how to Move Slow and Mend Things.

https://news.kestr.al/move-slow-and-mend-things/

done and done #emfcamp

The unimaginable privilege of putting your clean pants on to a dry body

#EMFCamp

Ooh look it's @SamLR at #EMFCamp

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Me with SamLR/Cass

In case you missed the event / any of the wonderful talks, a lot of the #EMF talks are already online here: https://media.ccc.de/b/conferences/emf/2026

#emfcamp

Saw @pascoda in the #EMFCamp bar

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Me and Pascoda

Now back In Essex where the shower has a hot and a cold function. The toilet has space and is not like a foil lined bag.

I must try and use this for more than #emfcamp

I am clean. So clean. Nobody has ever been this clean before

#EMFCamp

@emily_s I got home and tried to explain how great #EMFCamp was, and burst into (good, happy, positive) tears. I really need to write something up soon before this magical energy fades

Home safe from #EMFCamp

What an event. Thank you everyone.

Met @moraghickman at the #EMFCamp Fabric Photo meetup

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Me with EMF Design Legend Morag

Fell asleep in the bath

#EMFCamp

I am home from #EMFCamp and am apparently "stinky" and "should go and have a bath"

I have many more selfies to post from yesterday's quest https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/116945550901427510 though. And I also have some Thoughts and Emotions that I need to shape into a blogpost

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A red top hat with an EMF fabric band

What #EMFCamp don’t realise is this is the night we hit NullSector and flap our wings to banging choons.