Here is map how to get to us tomorrow. Normal path from Boulevard “6-ti Septemvri” which is being reconstructed more than year is marked with blue.
Do not take this route with car. Walking is possible but adventurous 🙂
The new path is from Boulevard “Tsarigradsko shose”, right turn at “Kemera” street, then left and right to “Prohlada” street and left turn when you cross “Pravda” street.
The Hackathon starts at 11.00 o’clock . The goal will be to Do-It-Yourself this sweet board:
First we will speak a bit about the different electronic components which are used and how to solder them properly. Then we will assembly 100 kits and learn how to install Arduino IDE and program them.
We will experiment with capacitive buttons implementation – the Kitty nose. Then we will try to compose different melodies and upload them.
The Hackathon will end 17.00 o’clock and we will move somewhere to drink beer.
First day will be in Technical University Plovdiv and includes presentations of interesting open source projects and the first Bulgarian Home retro computer Pravetz 8D.
Guest lecturer is Igor Pečovnik who will talk for the popular Armbian GNU/Linux distribution for Allwinner SoCs.
There will be also two booths for OpenSUSE and Retro computers.
10:30 – 10:50 Opening speech by our hosts from Technical University
11:00 – 11:30 Quality Assurance according to Einstein, Alex Todorov
11:40 – 12:10 Network monitoring by using netflow, Radi Dochev
12:20 – 12:50 dnsdist, Petko Angelov
13:00 – 13:30 Open Source Computer vision for your projects, Marian Marinov
13:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:50 First Bulgarian HomeComputer – Pravetz 8D, George Dramchev
15:00 – 15:50 Armbian GNU/Linux distribution, Igor Pečovnik
16:00 – 16:30 Tracing python applications, Nikolay Stoizev
16:45 – 17:45 Lightning talks x5 minutes
17:45 – 18:00 Quiz and closure
Traditionally at Saturday evening after the presentation we will continue with non-formal beer event at near by restaurant “Yuzhen Polah 2” at Bulair St 32.
Sunday June 4th we start at 11:00 in Olimex train building at 2 Pravda St.
We will have brief presentation about how to solder and basic knowledge for the electronic components, then we will solder the specially made for TuxCon Kitty badge and learn how to program it with Arduino IDE. 100 badges are ready as kits and will be given away free of charge, but we have limited number of soldering irons, so if you have one bring it to the event 🙂
Members of the local Radio club will install huge antenna at our backyard and have fun like last year.
TuxCon is totally free event made by volunteers in partnership with Technical University in Plovdiv. No need for registration, no entry fees.
Looking forward to see you this weekend in Plovdiv 🙂
This weekend is TuxCon, conference about open source hardware and software in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
In Saturday June 3rd the conference will begin at 10.30 o’clock in Technical University in Plovdiv. There are seven interesting lectures and Lighting talks.
Our special guest this year is Igor Pečovnik who will present Armbian – special Linux distribution for embedded ARM SoCs. Armbian is well known in Allwinner community as it supports almost every board with Allwinner ARM SoCs.
In Sunday, June 4th we will have the traditional Hardware hackathon at Olimex training building.
This year our main street is under heavy reconstruction so prepare for the fun to pass by the border of the near gipsy ghetto to may come to us 🙂
TuxCon Kitty, it’s a badge with buzzer, LEDs and shape of Kitty, which play songs when you touch it nose.
The PCB is programmable by Arduino IDE and you can compose your own melody.
Just 70 days ahead is the 4th TuxCon conference in Plovdiv dedicated to Open Source Hardware and Software. For more info watch on conference page at http://tuxcon.mobi/
The entrance is free for all visitors. TuxCon is a community event and it is organized by volunteers.
3rd of June is the day for lectures and lighting talks, if you have something interesting to share please send your request to info@tuxcon.mobi
On 4th of June we invite you to the traditional soldering hardware hackathon in Olimex training building.
We will host for a first time GNU/Linux install fest.
If you have problem with some device or driver or don’t know how to tweak your Linux distribution, or just want to chat with other people who use Linux – come to us on December 10th, 11.00-14.30 o’clock and meet Linux experts who will participate this event and get free advice and help.
Where to find us? Here is Google Maps Olimex Ltd location. And here is picture of the map, the green dot is the Olimex Training building where the GNU/Linux install fest will take place:
FOSDEM is the biggest event in Europe about Open Source technologies.
Every year thousands of FOSS/OSHW enthusiasts and professionals meet in Brussels in ULB (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) in 41 Dev Rooms and talk about interesting problems they have faced during the year.
We just got e-mail that Olimex is approved for booth there!
TERES-I Do It Yourself Hacker’s friendly modular Laptop designed completely with KiCAD will be also present at the booth.
KiCAD developers are in EDA room and as far I heard there will be very interesting tutorials and how-to’s examples how to implement simple new commands and extensions to KiCAD for people who want to contribute code.
So plan in advance your flight to Brussels, we looking forward to see you there 4th and 5th of February 2017!
“A ghost is haunting Europe—the ghost of communism.” said Carl Marx in 1848
We can re-phrase “A Ghost is haunting OpenFest 2016 – the ghost of open source hardware” 😀
We created this Soldering Kit specially for Open Fest as third year in a row we do soldering workshops there:
It’s a very simple board, specially made for novices with small PIC10F206 microcontroller which has only 512 words of Flash memory and 24 bytes of RAM, still enough to write C code like this.
In the good Olimex traditions being overwhelmed with work we totally forgot for the soldering workshop and started the project 3 weeks before OpenFest 🙂
The board was quickly routed with KiCAD and we sent to PCB manufacturer in China, who keep the promise to make the blank PCBs for 1 week and shipped on time but DHL late with the customs clearance and we got the board Friday morning! The workshop was Saturday and Sunday, right on time!
Then we had half Friday fun with Microchip’s MPLABX tools, which refused to re-program the PIC10F206 once it’s programmed.
After few hours we found that MPLABX version 3.35 can program and erase PIC10F206 just fine but MPLABX 3.45 don’t.
Still there was enough time till 20.00 o’clock and we managed to program 200 kits ready for soldering next day 🙂
The initial intention was to make LED breathe but after losing so much time with MPLABX we decided the first version to be simple 10 times blink!
Here you can see people assembling it on OpenFest:
Girls, Boys, Kids all were not afraid and took the soldering irons:
After OpenFest we continued to investigate why the newer MPLABX refused to program PIC10F206 more than once, the problem was trivial, to erase it the Vcc must be above 4.5V:
Still interesting why MPLABX 3.35 was erasing it even without this voltage settings 🙂
This is why working with embedded systems is such fun. You never know where you can step aside and you have to worry not just for the code but also for the hardware as source of mistakes.
Needless to say we had no any assembly instructions for the kit at OpenFest, but now proudly we put them on the web site of the kit.
June 3rd
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