#emfcamp folk! It’s time for the plush #Tetrapod giveaway! This will be running the whole month of October. The draw will be on the 1st November 2026 (01/11/2026).

First of all, here is the lovely tetrapod you will be playing for! (Emfcamp fabric from 2024 designed by @moraghickman). It is made of cotton and stuffed with synthetic hollow fill toy stuffing!

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A collage of four photographs showing the end tips of the plush tetrapod. One shows a water turbine and a bs13 plug, the next is an angle poise lamp, bottom left is a sunflower, and bottom right shows a chemical flash with an unspecified bubbling orange liquid. The fabric is a black background.

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The four “faces” of the emf plush tetrapod. The fabric is black and amongst the things on display is a wind turbine, a river, railway tracks, solar panels, grasses, a water wheel, and the emf logo. The major colours of these items are blue, yellow, orange, and green.

Oh no.

Not again…

#EMFCamp

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Bottle of ketchup in the bar

@everton137 met some other fedizens at #emfcamp if that counts

Oh hey this is #EMFCamp #Tildagon-related

I finally blogged about my experience at #emfcamp and hopefully come some way to describing that feeling of loss when you leave.

https://matt.copperwaite.net/personal/2026/09/21/emfcamp-2026/

@Edent There were quite a few #EMFCamp magic smoke enthusiasts at least year's #Gaussfest

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Photo showing a Tesla coil and other mysterious high voltage equipment in the background, with a black and yellow warning sticker on a pillar in the foreground. The sticker reads: "Caution. Magic smoke cannot be reinserted once released", and there is a smoking IC inside the warning triangle.

Not entirely sure what's going on here but it has a lot of #EMFCamp energy

https://youtu.be/npmmEEqhVgU

@amiserabilist @Shivviness they testing the lights and pyros for the next #emfcamp already? 😀

@HughEvansDev Into The Mate-verse #EMFCamp

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Photo showing a stack of 25 bright yellow plastic Club-Mate crates, in a corner shop somewhere in Northern Germany, during the festive period. They know their customers only too well...

#emfcamp trending, quick post Club Mate

@discontinuity #EMFCamp never really ends

@robinhouston

BRB just booking Chamfered Tetrahedron to play Null Sector at #EMFCamp 2028

For the next #EMFCamp ?

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The inside if a vehicle with a swivel chair, old computer and sone big guages and dials on the wall

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1971 County 1004 FC £21000 A large wheeled boxy vehicle in beige and orange paintwork. A range of different shaped windows along the side

RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/117211566860112159

The most #EMFCamp-coded thing you'll see today

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This guy's DIY audio visualizer

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This guy's DIY audio visualizer https://t.co/dBBMi71sbu

A much-younger (and very recently t1-diabetes-diagnosed) me at that first #EMFCamp

I still have that buff and fleece

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Me, in a hat and fleece, at the first EMF

The very first #EMFCamp started 14 years ago today!

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Some tents in a field at the first EMF

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The legendary Bar Under The M1 at the first EMF

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A tracked thing of some kind at the first EMF

Never underestimate the irritation and stress can be caused by a small, paranoid, petty man with a tiny amount of power who has realised they can’t bullshit you like the others around you.

And the others may be fine to you normally, but they then sit silently endorsing the behaviour when it happens to you, or worse, laugh along when a joke is made at a (woman) engineer’s expense when she isn’t on the call to defend herself.

@thisisjofrank raised #yesallmen to me and others earlier this year at #emfcamp. And she remains right.

Ok #emfcamp peeps, listen up.

I’ve nearly finished the tetrapod for the raffle. The raffle will be open to everyone - you don’t have to donate for legal reasons, but I’d appreciate if entry was accompanied by proof of donation to a nominated organisation that works for trans people/nb in the uk.

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A tetrapod sitting on a table in front of a sewing machine. It is made of black emf pattern fabric.

@robinhouston

PLEASE CLIMB ON THE MATHS, one of my very fondest memories of #EMFCamp 2026

So, the modular synth workshop I did at #emfcamp this year has obviously turned into an obsession and has drained my wallet 🫣😆

Here’s what I’ve put together to make weird noises…

#eurorack #synthesiser #modularsynth

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A music thing modular workshop system on the left. A 42hp 3U skiff is on the right, and to the front is a Noodlebox serendipity sequencer.

@lpbkdotnet no way, wow. I'm very happy that #emfcamp doesn't seem to fade. Though slightly disappointed that the phone extensions for #TerryWoganDubstep, #BrightonSeagulls and #WolfFacts no longer worked (well, they didn't last night anyway).

Meet the first lemming I made for #ProjectLemmings! It is either a natural born blocker (I didn't set out to make it one!) or really wants to hug someone.

#crochet #emfcamp

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A crocheted lemming in blocker position, with its arms wide.

The @Extelec lightning detector I assembled at #EMFCamp has been successfully hacked to trigger my camera!
Just in time for a nice lightning storm tomorrow? 👀 🤞

(I wasn’t expecting the light switch to trigger the lightning detector but I guess it makes a tiny detectable spark)

(No, the Pi isn’t doing anything here - it was just convenient to solder the Extreme Kits board directly to my original lightning trigger board)

@emf Now absolutely kicking myself for not slipping a "welcome to the one place that isn't corrupted by capitalism" joke into the #emfcamp opening ceremony

@emf I also tried to get permission to use this incredible Tim Curry artwork by Michelle Urra, but unfortunately the rights are held by Vice and they wouldn't return my emails.

RIP Tim. You really did escape to the one place that isn't corrupted by capitalism. #emfcamp

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A painting of Tim Curry as depicted in Red Alert, saying "spaaaace". Behind him are buildings covered in tesla coils, and somehow blimps that are sharks.

I tried to pay Tim Curry for a custom "SPAAAACE" video to use at the space-themed @emf this year, but repeatedly failed to get it organised.

One for my "eternal regrets" list. #emfcamp

Spotted in a pub today…

Is this the perfect #EMFCamp beer branding?

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A bar pump badge for “laser juice” session ipa from Bristol Beer Factory. 4.2%ABV, vegan, gluten free

After much work and testing I've FINALLY got the text-based adventure I wrote for #EMFCamp online!

https://www.namesley.com

You are Name Namesley, an undercover agent posing as a software developer at the world's softest bank. But where is that mysterious honking noise coming from?!

You can play in-browser or in your terminal: telnet game.namesley.com.

Enjoy! #EMF2026 #EMF26 #TextAdventure

The #EMFCamp #tattoo is two weeks old and looking pretty healed

I am now (inevitably) looking for the next blank space on my arms

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The EMF 2026 logo tattooed on my arm

Ben isn't on here so I will shamelessly promote the recording of his #emfcamp set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JepQAdnqCJ4

This is very #EMFCamp-coded

https://youtu.be/L7QMgbMlaek

Never got to wear this at #EMFCamp but the temp is finally low enough to channel my inner @pikesley . cc @moraghickman

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A bow tie made from the Electromagnetic Field 2024 fabric design

Quack!
Finished the SMD duck a friend started at an #EMFcamp workshop.

@queekusme

This is some seriously #EMFCamp-coded stuff tbh

So @robinince wrote about @emf in the Big Issue and gave us a new tagline. #emfcamp

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A photo of the "Robin Ince on the Road" column in the Big Issue, Issue 1730, 10-16th August 2026. Unfortunately it's too large to alt-text, but the pull quote is "Electromagnetic Field is a DIY techno utopia, a field of ingenuity, robotics, lasers, full of hope and activism"

https://www.instructables.com/LeD-SPIDIES-Halloween-CRAFT-for-KIDS

Just found this randomly on instructables. The EMF Camp Spiders could have some friends built... #emfcamp

My little one is leaving home! Many of you probably met Nat helping me in the night market at #EMFcamp or on one of the many volunteer shifts they did at the event this year. A' level results were great, and now they have signed their contract and found a place to live ready to start an engineering degree apprenticeship in the Lake District. Surrounded by beautiful countryside, I'm not at all jealous! #ProudDad

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Nat leaning on a fence with a river and hills in the background

Imagine dropping the Channel 4 "ADHD Doesn't Exist" people into #EMFCamp though

WooHoo!

I've just placed the first calls through my #strowger #TelephoneExchange collection since #EMFCamp 2024!!

It took 2+ years to get them wired back in after I rearranged the shed to take one of them to emf

All 4 of the #ElectroMechanical exchanges return dialtone when prodded from DECT, and the DTMF to pulse converters still work!

There are a lot of faults for me to fix before I can even contemplate letting anyone else dial in - but OMG IT'S ALIVE!