Chaos Computer Club - Electromagnetic Field 2016 (mp3)

The end of EMF 2016 :( about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

We've all seen lockpicking explained on several security venues. You might even have tried it yourself. But what if you need to open a lock a number of times? Wouldn't it be great to have an opening technique that would supply you with a working key in the process? A method to do this has existed for quite some time, but until recently it has remained quite unknown. Some time ago impressioning locks got "re-invented" by the lockpick community and the skill evolved to the level now shown at several international championships. Unlike lockpicking, impressioning creates a fully working key for the lock which can be used to lock and unlock the cylinder at will. With practice, this technique can consistently open a lock in 10-15 minutes (and potentially faster)! What is it? How does it work? What skill is involved? Why is it the most interesting way to open a lock? These questions, and more will be answered in this talk. Jos Weyers (@josweyers) is a world-record holder in the field of lock impressioning and a mainstay at LockSport events around the world. A long-time member of TOOOL in the Netherlands and a key figure at the Hack42 hackerspace in Arnhem, Jos is the Vice-President of TOOOL.nl and helps to oversee that organization and the LockCon conference. Most people know him as the Dutch Kilt guy. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

"Come and hack our dinosaurs" – how could I resist a request like this? How I tamed dinosaurs and can train anyone to keep them under control. This 30 minute talk takes you from the time of the dinosaurs to the oldest Theme Park in the world. It explains how I used a Raspberry Pi computer and an open source visual flow programming language called Node-RED to hack some animatronic dinosaurs at the Theme Park and breathed new life into them. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Members of the EMF infrastructure and NOC teams will speak about how we brought power and Internet to the field, explain some of the challenges faced, and share some statistics. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Last EMF we made a film. This EMF we'd like to share it with everyone Probably best done at night to avoid sunlight blowing out the colours. We will upload to youtube after the premiere. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Amateur radio had historically been a hobby of makers and experimenters but had fallen out as alternative hobbies suited the general enthusiasts' desires. We are surrounded by devices communicating wirelessly and we’re now wanting to take control and build upon that framework. This is a general presentation not requiring knowledge in amateur radio or electronics, covering things from hobbyist culture to influencing technologies leading to this ‘changing of the guard’ that is happening now. There will also be a nod to the first widespread digital communications protocol, Morse Code. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Listening to the structure of the universe. I have a background in Radio Astronomy (at Jodrell Bank) and in electronic music. I'll be mashing up ideas, playing sounds & music, looking at the evolution of the language of music and science, and how we might use cosmological models in exploring sonic spaces. http://www.binarydust.org for more... about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Sound is an incredibly important sense in our day-to-day lives, but how much can we believe what we hear? In thi talk, Ben will lead a whistle-stop tour of some mind bending sound-based illusions, and dig in to how they work, and what they tell us about the brain. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

How the Tilda MkPi was created, what went wrong, and how it got into your hands. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Freifunk is a volunteer operated wireless network offering city-wide intranet with local services and also anonymous internet access for free. 34,000+ nodes are currently available in more than 300 communities, mostly throughout Germany, but also beyond. Anybody can use it and anybody is encouraged to contribute to the network, whether it be by setting up nodes, providing services, or whatever they can think of. People offer Freifunk at home, in public places, conference rooms, on the street... everywhere. Socially, we thrive to mitigate the divide between those who can afford access to the net and those who cannot. We also provide connectivity to refugee camps. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

At Delft University of Technology we are developing a six legged robot inspired by a beetle. Instead of building complex and expensive robots, we build simple and cheap robots. This allows us to construct a lot of robots and use them as a swarm. Just like computer engineers found out that some problems (e.g. travelling sales man) can be solved by copying behaviour seen in nature, the same thing applies to hardware. For example, we see that animals have multiple layers of intelligence: reflexes needed to stay alive are generated by the spine, and the brain adds a layer of more complex, but less stable intelligence. This can be copied to robots by implementing the spine in a microcontroller, and implementing the brain on a processor running linux. These robots are build in all sizes. Ranging from a model you can hold in your hand, up to a model that is over half a meter in length. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A talk on the use of automated facial recognition (AFR) systems in the UK. Alas, there currently exists no regulation of AFR in the UK... but its use by British police forces is on the up. Despite the warnings of independent oversight bodies (and court rulings against the police collection of custody images) the government has continued to underwhelm in its response to yet another State capacity for surveillance. This talk will cover to a scientific standard the increasing capabilities of the technology, and question the limits of its scalability, as well as tackle popular ideas about how to defend against it. It will also publicise to a journalistic standard the extent to which its use is growing, Police use of social media images, and the government's attempts to brush concerns under the proverbial rug. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

I had one question for Larry Ellison. ''In 20 years, do you think the global database is going to exist, and will it be run by Oracle?’' ''I do think it will exist, and I think it is going to be an Oracle database,'' he replied. ''And we're going to track everything.'' Jeffrey Rosen, NY Times Magazine, 2002. It’s 2022 and only the genomic England children get into university. Country of birth and ethnicity information stops Outsiders getting into school. Prospective employers screen applicants’ lifetime web browsing history pre-interview. Who controls your personal data controls your future. Fact or fiction? about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Claude Elwood Shannon was a pioneering mathematician and engineer, of paramount importance in our digital revolution. 2016 sees the centenary of his birth. Whilst he is most widely known as the "father of information theory", the extent of his influence across computer science, physics and engineering is incredible. This talk aims to mark his centenary with an exploration of the man, his work and his legacy. In the spirit of his practical, "hands-on" nature, our discussion will be filled with examples, experiments and demonstrations. The talk will start by explaining his unifying theory of the transmission of information, which provides the basis for all modern communication: without his work we would have no Internet, no mobile telephones, and no theoretical understanding of the limits of data compression. We'll move on to briefly examine his formulation of digital logic circuits in Boolean algebra and present his design of a 4-bit adder circuit in relay logic. Finally, we'll conclude by exploring some of his lesser-known inventions: the first computerised learning device, the first chess-playing computer program, the first wearable computer, a juggling robot, and the "ultimate machine". about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

While we all like to make, modify and re-appropriate technology, some of us like to break it for, um, fun and profit. As a professional penetration tester (my job is to break my employer's devices before they release them) I will explain how I go about finding vulnerabilities in IoT devices. I will look at hardware, software and cryptographic attacks that can give us root on our toys. Rather than focus on specific bugs in particular devices, this talk will describe a number of generic attacks that can be attempted against a wide variety of networked 'things'. The attacks range from the trivial that anyone with a soldering iron and a few bits and bobs could attempt, through those that require moderate linux knowledge, to those that require a disassembler and a knowledge of reverse engineering. It should be of interest to anyone who would like to root their own shiny, IoT devices. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A brief overview of one hackers journey taking the best of modern automotive technology and retrofitting it all into a car from the same era as the Intel 4004. Taking a 1974 Ford Escort Mk1 with minimal functionality and bolting on electronic fuel injection, turbochargers, digital instrument clusters, CAN-bus networks, Raspberry Pis and ultimately the ‘cloud’. Touching on multiple engineering disciplines; automotive engineering, EE, CS, cyber security, and product design. All In the effort of chasing efficiency, fuelled by tenacious curiosity. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Some ridiculous mathematical demonstrations and projects Katie's worked on recently. This is followed by a maths card tricks workshop: https://www.emfcamp.org/line-up/2016/266 about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

There are several mathematical results and theorems concerning electoral processes. I'll cover the two most important theorems in voting theory: May's theorem, which shows the strength of first-past-the-post in the setting of a two-candidate election, and Arrow's theorem, which shows a weakness of all voting systems for elections with more than two candidates. I'll discuss some applications of the theory to two voting systems: First-Past-The-Post and the Alternative Vote, discussing their strengths and weaknesses. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

When it comes to cyber security, everyone always talks about the biggest and baddest APT mega cyber attack. But what about the little guy, the underdog the... false positive? This light hearted talk is aimed at a general audience, but gives real lessons for those working in infosecurity. We will look at some real false positives and find some serious reasons why you should spare some love for those seemingly pointless investigations that will never be headline-grabbing about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A talk about my Music library project [http://github.com/Godley/Music-Library], a multi platform app written for my final year project as part of my BSc Computer Science degree last year. The app is intended to be an open and extendible platform for organising sheet music (the notation for classical music given to players in an orchestra or similar), a problem which hasn't really been solved by other software even though there's plenty of software which can help you compose new music. Talk will cover reasons I think the problem hasn't been addressed, problems working with music formats, some thoughts on how we perceive sheet music and Optical Music Recognition, particular issues technically with Python and forcing a single codebase to work on Windows, OSX and GNU/Linux, and how the app turned out in the end. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

The talk presents examples from the experience of two researchers dealing with the design and craft of technology for performing sound through instruments or installations. Using electronic components, microcontrollers and other sensing devices we will present our findings in the field of real time sensing and processing for aesthetic purposes. Examples include the design of expressive instruments informed by physical processes and provocative site specific interactions and visuals: from sonified brooms to performable squeaky doors, ultra-low latency light sabers, a winged spectre seducing her audience to dance, and more. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

... and what does that tell us? Look forward to an hour of comedy exploring how Physics links space stations and roundabouts, street lamps and exoplanets, and of course the universe and a lightbulb. Day-to-day experiences will take on new life as Michael's quirky take on them reveals the structure underneath, and you may find that you know more Physics than you thought! Michael has performed at Cambridge Science Festival, at the Edinburgh Fringe, and the Bloomsbury Theatre in London about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Everyone is hacking everything. Everything is vulnerable. Your site, your users, even you. Are you worried about this? You should be! Don't worry, I'm not trying to scare you (that much). We have plenty of safeguards against attempts on our applications' user data. We all (hopefully) recognise Two Factor Auth as one of those safeguards, but what actually goes on under the hood of 2FA? We'll take a look into generating one time passwords, implementing 2FA in web applications and the only real life compelling use case for QR codes. Together, we'll make the web a more secure place. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A description of the equipment needed to receive live video direct from the space station and my adventure in setting up the equipment and helping with video conferences between the space station and school kids. Anyone can do this once they get the tech working. I will also show videos received from space. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Electronics have transformed our lives beyond recognition but there could be radical change around the corner with plastic electronics. Join engineer and British Science Association Award Lecturer Radu Sporea to discover how these new materials and unconventional devices could be more efficient, cheaper and easier to manufacture than existing technologies. This will be a short talk followed by informal discussion and demonstrations. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Come to this talk if you want to see how I built my own wearable camera out of a raspberry pi and a backpack and how I took it on holiday when travelling through Europe. I'll focus on the the building process of hacking it together along with the various pitfalls which comes along with every project. The project eventually became a pretty big success with it floating around on the first page of HackerNews for a weekend and being featured on various blogs. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

The Fail Map project shows security problems at governments on a geographical map. The goal is to improve safety of exchanging sentive information with parties that are required to process this. We do this by providing a geographical map of these entities and showing where and what problems are present, why they matter and how to solve them. A pilot in the Netherlands resulted in the securing of over 150 weak TLS connections in the first weekend. This map is visible at https://www.faalkaart.nl After the presentation a short discussion is planned to exchange knowledge about the state of Responsible Disclosure, starting with the (very positive) situation in the Netherlands. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A run through of the development of visual effects in film, from the earliest camera tricks and chemical processing to the latest techniques including motion capture and photoreal rendering. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

The world of electronics has changed a lot. Techniques which were once only accessible to the biggest players are now available at low volumes and at low cost. Find out how you can apply modern techniques to your next hobby project and achieve professional quality, all while making it easier to publish your designs. This talk includes: * Use of CAD/CAM tools for schematic capture and PCB design * Techniques for making PCBs yourself * Getting PCBs manufactured cheaply * Surface mount assembly and soldering This talk will not assume prior knowledge of electronics manufacturing or much in the way of electronics design in order to follow the talk. This talk will cater to your curiosity if this area is new to you but will also aim to be informative for someone who is experienced in designing circuits and wants to achieve a slick result. After this talk you will understand the steps involved in producing a piece of electronics that has a professional look and feel and you will very likely be excited about applying these techniques to your next project, whether it's your first attempt at a simple through-hole design with two components or a densely packed surface mount project. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

More often than not, a small fortune is spent on setting up a comprehensive homebrew arsenal; various tuns, boilers and fermenters. In fact, good beer can be made with with nothing more than a coffee percolator (ok, and a few other things that people usually have lying around like a pan and a hob or means of fire). Making beer isn't something for those with deep pockets, it can be done by anyone and almost anywhere with relative ease. Good beer doesn't have to be expensive, and it certainly doesn't have to come from a shop. The presentation will take you through the steps to make beer using a coffee percolator, fermenting and carbonating the brew; a little history of beer and styles; and hopefully some samples. Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew and waste a lifetime. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

This talk will follow the progress of an MRI examination from how it is generated in the scanner, through the hospital archive to the users who need to view them. It will include: 1. Details of how MRI images are created using the primary "electromagnetic field", the variable gradient field coils, radio pulses sent and received, and processing via Fourier transforms to generate actual 2D/3D data images. 2. The common standard (DICOM) used by all vendors to attach patient information etc. to the images and to send them to the "Picture Archiving Communication System" (PACS) 3. The process of storing and indexing the images in the PACS, including the challenges of the large volumes of data used. 4. The subsequent options for viewing the images, including simple 2D manipulations and 3D rendering. Other types of imaging (Simple X-rays, CT, Ultrasound etc.) will also be covered. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Lightning Talks! about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

In which I relate my adventures in generative electronic music based on chaotic strange attractors. Noises will be made with MIDI instruments through Python and Clojure, fully analogue computers and synths, and also JavaScript. I will recount why it's taking me too long, things that worked that shouldn't, things that didn't work that should, and some electronic music history and the dangers of nostalgia. I will start by explaining my failure to understand music, maintained without want of trying. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

This Is Where We Are (or TIWWA) is an dynamic digital artwork initally produced for the opening of the new Tate Modern extension in June 2016. The work takes form as an immersive and interactive algorithmic sculpture fueled by the data we collectively generate. TIWWA invites audiences into a sculptural space where they can see, hear and interact with the data of our everyday lives, contributing to an evolving art work which questions the influence of algorithms on our behavior. This talk explores the technology used to produce a 3.6m tall touch and presence sensitive sculpture filled with LED screens, lighting, sound and AI systems, all powered by a combination of Processing, Node-RED, Unity, Pure Data, OSC, MQTT, IBM Watson and the Microsoft Bot Framework. The talk will also touch on what is need to coordinate all the various systems together and reflects on the experience of developing the project. Expect a sorry tale of crunch, an AirB&B horror story, the joys of watching the audience interact with your work, music jamming with a sculpture, and the endless celeb spotting at the private view. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Cyborgs are "local and temporary islands of decreasing entropy" (Norbert Wiener), resolutely committed to "partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity" (Donna Haraway). Cyborgs hack their pacemakers, program their bionic limbs, and gain extra senses. My implanted NFC transponder allows me to unlock my phone with a wave of my hand, but uniquely identifies me to any nearby antenna. In this talk I present my preliminary research into the idea of an API for the human body. What does it mean for a human to become assimilated into the Internet of Things? Why would I want to expose part of my body in a globally addressable space? Through the partiality of web standards, the irony of illegal prime numbers, the intimacy of teledildonics, and the perversity of JavaScript, this short talk will inspire you to become a cyborg, or teach you how to hack one. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

This is a talk aimed at people interested in making or playing video games. It presents a brief history of morality systems in games before going into depth into what makes for ethically relevant games. How should games present moral choices to players? How can games capitalise on and test players' morality? How can you build good ethical experiences in games? Dr. Catherine Flick, a technology ethicist with a long-term love of video games, discusses these questions and more. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A talk about how we planned and organised a hackathon with 50/50 female and male participants and at the same time learnt how to create a tech event that fits everyone's tastes. I will share our approach to organising an inclusive hackathon and share our learnings from that. My hopes are that you will get the tips, tricks and inspiration to create even better tech events suitable for all the awesome people out there willing to hack and learn. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Holonomic drive robots, ones that can independently drive each of their degrees of freedom, are incredibly agile. If one finds oneself having to participate in some kind of robotic jousting, such a robot is an excellent choice. I will show an example of one, which recently won a duelling contest organised by everyone's favourite small fruit based computer company, and walk through the various systems, gotchas, maths, mechanical design, electronics and software needed to create her. Slides are online at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kUL0ilc0b5qm6v7doisWAt3jBqe7MiwLD0FTU3ZnmrA/edit?usp=sharing Triangula's documentation (including a more thorough derivation of some of the maths in the talk) is at http://pythonhosted.org/triangula/ Follow me at @approx_eng (https://twitter.com/approx_eng) for updates, kittens, etc. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Cultures of abuse, harassment and intolerance are endemic in the competitive video game scene. This talk will discuss the types of trolling regularly found in competitive play, why it's a bad thing, what drives this behaviour, and what steps game designers can take to minimise it for online matchmaking. First we'll look at it from a game-mechanic perspective - that is, how to identify characteristics of games that can foster a toxic culture, but where changing them would also negatively impact the gameplay. After, we'll approach from a ui/ux perspective, giving some examples of recent titles that have built good communities by encouraging positive communication, as well as some that have embraced trolling to make winding up your opponent a mechanic in its own right. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Talk summary: Concordia Station, Antarctica, is a spaceflight analogue, ‘White Mars’, in view of its isolation, inaccessibility, altitude, low light levels and skeleton crew. Beth has recently returned from a year-long mission there where she was working for the European Space Agency implementing research protocols to investigate the effects of this extreme environment on the physiology and psychology of the overwinter crew. Bio: Beth, is a UK trained doctor who has recently returned from Antarctica where she was working as research MD for the European Space Agency at spaceflight analogue Concordia ‘White Mars’. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and patron of Expedition Medicine with an interest in polar environments she has worked as part of logistical and medical support teams for ski mountaineering expeditions and endurance races in Svalbard, Greenland, Siberia and at the North Pole. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A rare view into the darker arts of locksmithing. From prison breaks to secret tools, the murky world of the criminal is explored. Lockpicking, the original hack, has been around since locks themselves. As security devices, locks, and the circumvention thereof, is a black hat's dream come true. Their methods and tools are shrouded in secrecy and folklore. Please note there is no (currently classified) sensitive material or techniques revealed but there will be previously unpublished information. It will not be a practical lesson in theft (sorry). about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A brief introduction into the technology that enables mind control, how it works, what it is currently capable of and what it might be able to do in the future. A demo of the technology will be available! about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

Within the UK, school computing has changed beyond recognition in the last 10 years. 2012 saw the Royal Society publish the hugely influential “Shut down or restart?” report, which has been followed by a complete curriculum turnaround… in England. What’s followed has been invigorating and challenging, but it’s not been easy. In England, skills gaps are a problem. In other parts of the UK there seems to be more of a “sit back and wait to see how those English people get on” attitude. For the enthusiastic outreach nerd, this is an interesting time: working in after school clubs, one-day sessions, robot open days, summer camps, and tech activity development can be hugely fun and massively rewarding. It can also be utterly frustrating, demoralising, and can sap the life force from your very soul (if you had one to start with). This talk will describe what works, what doesn’t work, what you (yes you) can do, and why we should take this seriously. What should you do if you’re trying to run a workshop for 40 kids with varying levels of experience? How can you help a group of homeschooling parents teach programming? How can you write something that’s used more than once? The currently anonymous proposer has a decade+ of experience as a tech person trying to encourage the world that tech is actually fun. This will be a frank talk about real workshops and real kids, with practical advice and a barely concealed undertone of ranty feminism. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

The aerodynamics of turbomachinery, precise CAD, testing, induction motor design and the importance of prime numbers were all topics that I failed to consider when I set out to design a desk fan that looks like a jet engine. In this talk I will describe all of the fascinating things that I only discovered in retrospect as I took a donor desk fan and made something that was worse in almost every single way. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

How fast is it possible to complete a game like Super Mario World, if you could control every frame of input to ensure a perfect run? Tool-assisted speedruns are recorded frame-by-frame using emulators which allow slow-motion gameplay, going back and undoing mistakes, and even using bots to search through many possible combinations of inputs. By removing human limitations, these speedruns get closer and closer to the theoretically perfect play. This talk presents highlights from the last 15 years: frame-perfect movements, exploiting bugs and oversights, and manipulating randomness to get miraculously good fortune. There will be videos of speed runs, including both popular and obscure games, and even a game completed in less than 0.3 seconds of gameplay time. There are many techniques which are used in making a speedrun. Sometimes people will disassemble the game's code to understand how it works, in order to find new ways of beating it. Sometimes people will find and exploit bugs, allowing them to move through walls, go faster than normally possible, or skip whole sections of the game. In extreme cases, bugs allow players to execute arbitrary code, allowing them to take complete control of the console. In short, this talk is about taking games to their very limits. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A quick overview of the house I self built with help from builders. An overview of the decisions and technology I used and the reason for them. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

The construction and programming techniques used to make a huge-scale lighting installation, with 84,000 LEDs, 25,000 PCBs and 14,000 PIC microcontrollers. Printed circuit boards were used as mechanical structure and electrical interconnection to make large but lightweight illuminated snowflake shapes. This installation was built as part of a Christmas lighting feature in a Hong Kong shopping mall in 2015 about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

A rambling adventure through distraction, data vis and drone, framed around two projects turning NASA deep space data into audial and physical forms. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

As the title suggests, I will spend this talk telling four stories about recreational maths. These stories will include how a large pile of matchboxes can be taught to play noughts and crosses, how a Raspberry Pi can be taught logic and the fastest possible way to complete a level of Pac-Man. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

USB is a horrendously complicated protocol - but it's also tremendously useful and powerful, and that's why it's dominated PC peripherals. There are hundreds of rubbish USB devices around with unsupported software and locked down pc requirements. Luckily, these devices are often actually very easy to reverse engineer. I'll briefly outline how USB works, and then describe how I reverse engineered several USB devices - including a USB desktop visualiser (avermedia CP-155) and a laser cutter (HPC 3020) using just virtual machines and wireshark, and found that many undocumented USB devices are surprisingly simple. Let's take back the power over our hardware and hack our USB devices! about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab