Author: Jenny List / Source: Hackaday
There is an air of excitement among the hackerspaces of Europe, because this month is hacker camp season. In Denmark they have Bornhack beginning on Thursday, in Italy IHC was held earlier in the month, while here in the UK we are looking forward to Electromagnetic Field. We’re excited be at Eastnor Castle for Electromagnetic Field at the cusp of August and September for several days under canvas surrounded by our community’s best and brightest work.
We’ll even have a Hackaday Readers’ Village this year!If you’ve never been to a hacker camp before, this is one that’s not to be missed. Technically this is camping, but where every structure from the smallest tent upwards has mains power and gigabit Ethernet. It’s the equivalent of a music festival if you replace the music with technology and other cool stuff from our world. There are talks on a huge variety of fascinating subjects, the chance to see up close some of the things you’ll have read about here on Hackaday, and best of all, a significant proportion of Europe’s hackerspace communities all together in one place. They are a uniquely stimulating and exciting environment.
Hackaday Readers’ Village Among the Highlights
The bulk of the camp will as usual be formed of so-called villages; loose collections of tents and other structures housing people associated with a particular interest group or hackerspace.
Hackaday Readers have our own village for the first time so please feel free to join us! There will be a number special interest villages, many of the British hackerspaces and on a personal note a lot of familiar faces from close to home, but there are many villages from further afield.
If the Belgian Embassy don’t bring bottled beer we’ll be very disappointed, meanwhile make sure to take in a stroopwafel and some quiet and tasteful music from the Netherlands. Our German friends will have got their act together far better than…The post Looking Forward To Electromagnetic Field 2018 appeared first on FeedBox.