Exploring the invisible: adventures in the electromagnetic spectrum!! - blinry at !!Con 2024

Exploring the Invisible: Adventures in the Electromagnetic Spectrum!! There’s an invisible world around us: The electromagnetic spectrum! It’s how radio, TV and Wi-Fi work. And plenty of other things, too – I wanted to learn more about it! So, in a free week in March, inspired by Vi Hart’s “Make 50 of something” technique, I decided to try to find 50 things to do with a modern Software Defined Radio – a “universal” radio receiver in the form of a $30 USB dongle. Let me to take you on three adventures that happened to me that week! blinry grew up in libraries, which convinced them that it’s possible to learn and understand basically everything! Their other childhood influences include a scientific German TV show with an orange cartoon mouse. Nowadays, they spend most of their time creating collaborative and educational open-source tools, or taking trains to random places. They are part of the Chaos Community, the Recurse Center, and Jugend Hackt. Presented at !!Con 2024 (pronounced, of course, "bangbangcon"!) in Santa Cruz, CA -- https://bangbangcon.com/ !!Con is a production of the Exclamation Foundation -- https://exclamation.foundation/ Video Production by Confreaks Follow Confreaks 👇 https://confreaks.com https://x.com/confreaks