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EMF Camp has recent­ly tak­en place in the UK. This, every two year, festival/hacker camp sees around 4000 peo­ple descend on the grounds of East­nor Cas­tle UK. It’s an amaz­ing event with all man­ner of talks, art instal­la­tions, work­shops and indeed par­ty­ing in Null Sector.

Amongst all this the fab­u­lous Chia, Kli­ment and Carston pulled togeth­er an amaz­ing E‑Sport style FreeCAD speed run chal­lenge in the hard­ware hack­ing tent.

This event saw a group of peo­ple get togeth­er and com­pete in 3 ten minute rounds each hav­ing a unique small FreeCAD project chal­lenge. The idea was that peo­ple had to repli­cate a FreeCAD project from a tech­ni­cal draw­ing. Round one was a small box with radi­al fil­lets on all exter­nal and inter­nal edges, round two was a “hex­pan­sion” which is the term for a hexag­o­nal add on for the offi­cial EMF badge and the final round was to repli­cate a Club Mate bottle!

Jo (author of this blog) got involved and ran a live com­men­tary on each round in the style of a horse rac­ing com­pere, it was high ener­gy and great fun. The audi­ence (around dou­ble the amount seen in this image with those not want­i­ng to be pho­tographed being on the oth­er side of the seat­ing area) vot­ed with the loud­est cheers for the win­ners of each round. Hugh Rawl­in­son was crowned win­ner and giv­en a small FreeCAD medal, it’s fair to say it was more about the fun and attempt­ing chal­lenges than seri­ous competition.

Mas­sive thanks and kudos for Chia, Kli­ment and Carston for get­ting this bril­liant event togeth­er. We real­ly hope this fun event hap­pens again!