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  • Andy Herdherdingdata@mastodon.scot
    Jun 7, 2024, 1:07 PM

    An installation which nicely sums up one part of what #emfcamp was like: the random midi keyboard left quite literally in a grassy field, vaguely facing null sector (where the party is at). There’s no sign. It just silently SCREAMS “play with me”. Turns out this keyboard controls the lasers which go out across the whole site! Deeply satisfying to play with.

    We can make the world a little more like this. We can reward people for being curious.

    A video of me playing a midi keyboard. I am to camera right. It’s dark. In front of me there are green lasers lighting up the sky, which are changing as I interact with the keyboard. There is lively drum and bass music and fireballs lighting up the sky too. I am not doing a particularly good job of matching the laser timing to the music
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  • Andy Herdherdingdata@mastodon.scot
    Jun 7, 2024, 1:20 PM

    If there’s any one thing I’m determined to bring more of to the real world, it is SIDE QUESTS. There were so many. Some were puzzles, others were treasure hunts. I still haven’t managed to find adequate words to capture that on saturday I didn’t feel like doing the “main story” and so instead spent a day quite literally walking around a field doing side quests. In real life. #emfcamp

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  • Andy Herdherdingdata@mastodon.scot
    Jun 7, 2024, 1:32 PM

    I quite enjoyed the gchqnet treasure hunt. We had to find the “hexpansion” chips that had been scattered around site. #emfcamp

    Particular highlight was finding Dan, one of the organisers of this quest. After I chatted to him for a bit he said “now that you’ve met me, here’s a hidden hexpansion” and offers me a secret one from his pocket. Mindblowingly cool - I’ve only ever experienced something like this in a game.

    We can make the world more like this. We can reward people for being curious.

    A GCHQ.net hexpansion chip plugged into my EMF badge, which is also hexagonal. There’s a lot of raw circuit board on display. Behind there is a sign advertising that this is the location of one of the items.
    Another gchq.net expansion. This one is not plugged in. Amusingly it’s been defaced with a sticker which says “for rectal use only”
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  • Andy Herdherdingdata@mastodon.scot
    Jun 7, 2024, 1:36 PM

    (It’s important to clarify that when I say “gchq” I do not in fact mean the government entity, I mean the EMF village name inspired by some guys who discovered in the pub one day that the domain gchq.net was vacant and purchased it for a tenner. Delightful.) #emfcamp

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