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30 May 2022 5 Comments
in event, open source Tags: confereence, opensource, tuxcon
TuxCon is an annual event about free and open source software and hardware.
The entrance is free for all visitors.
TuxCon is a community event and it is organized by volunteers.
The twitter hashtag of the event is #TuxCon.
The conference is scheduled during the first day of the event (Saturday, 4 June 2022).
Workshops and unconference will take place at Olimex training during the second day of the event (Sunday, 5 June 2022).
12 Jun 2019 2 Comments
in event, open source, OSHW Tags: 2019, kit, soldering, tuxcon, workshop
The soldering workshop this year was for Open Source Hardware Universal Remote Control board using SMT components.
All files for this kit are at GitHub including hardware, software sources and Assembly instructions. For these who didn’t manage to participate, now the kit is on our web for sale: URC
This year we had massive participation of kids from 4 to 12 years old.
As the SMT components are bit odd to solder we prepared for them FOSDEM-85 kits with PTH components.
We were a bit concerned if they will not get burned by the soldering irons, but they surprised us as they were so precise and careful that all boards they soldered worked 100% from the very first time.
Just for comparison when we do soldering workshops with adults from 20 up to 70 years old about 10% of the soldered boards do not start due to problems with misplaced components or bad soldering and we have to help them to fix. So it appears kids do solder better than adults 🙂
The Minibot kits from TuxCon 2018 soldering workshop are also on the web now.
It was wonderful weekend with lot of fun.
15 May 2019 Leave a comment
in event Tags: conference, event, foss, oshw, tuxcon
This year TuxCon Open Source Hardware and Software conference will be on 8 and 9th of June in Plovdiv.
This year the talks on 8th of June will be record numbers – 16 and will be held in 2 halls, there will be very interesting topics for FPGA, Home Automation, Car tuning, Linux, Robotics.
On June 9th there will be traditional soldering workshop in Olimex’s training building. We will have kits both for starters with just PTH components and for these who want to master SMD technology.
TuxCon is free to participate event, made by volunteers with aim to popularize the free and open source software and hardware.
01 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
Reserve these dates in your agenda now as there will be lot of tech talks and workshops.
Looking forward to see you in Plovdiv!
This year Plovdiv is also European Capital of Culture and we have amazing number of culture events. One more reason to visit our city!
17 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
Tuxcon is non for profit organization run by volunteers, with goal to promote open source technology in Plovdiv.
Once per year this organization make Tuxcon conference, but this year they didn’t stop with just this event.
In May they made with the help of Smarty Kids workshop for kids, where introduction to programming of Arduino and ESP8266 boards was present :
TuxCon 2018 was in June and had so many proposals for talks this year, that the two halls couldn’t accommodate them all.
So in July one separate event for Home automation was made with Miroslav Petrov.
Miroslav talked about Domoticz and how to install it on A20-OLinuXino-MICRO:
Special tanks to the good people from Siteground for hosting this event.
This event attracted many people not only from Plovdiv:
For those who didn’t manage to come here is the Miroslav’s workshop web page.
What I hear is that the success of these events encourage the Tuxcon organizers to think about to make such every month 🙂 Keep the good work!
16 Jul 2018 3 Comments
in event Tags: 2018, tuxcon, video
If you missed this event now you can watch all presentations and workshop in TuxCon Youtube channel.
21 May 2018 1 Comment
in arduino, event, fpga, KiCAD, open source, OSHW, Retro computers, verilog Tags: conference, foss, fpga, hackathon, kicad, oshw, Plovdiv, risc-v, soldering, tuxcon
TuxCon 2018 conference about Free Open Source Software and Open Source Hardware will be June 9 and 10th in Plovdiv.
This is community driven event done by volunteers with the support of local IT companies and it’s totally free to participate.
In Saturday 9th of June in the Technical University building there will be two rooms, for lectures and workshops.
Hacking Risc-V core, implemented on iCE40 FPGA and playing with it’s instruction set and making small “monitor” program which allow you to enter programs written on machine code and executed on iCE40HX8K-EVB + iCE40-IO will be demonstrated, so if you want to touch and make your first program on RISC-V “computer” with VGA monitor and keyboard you may find Rangel Ivanov lecture interesting.
Plamen Vaisolov is retro computer maniac and keep working on them, implementing modern floppy disk emulators and other peripherials. He will share his experience with all these who miss Karateka and Load Runner 🙂
Neven Boyanov will talk about his experience with LoRA network and how to start on low budged.
Dimitar Gamishev has two interesting talks, one is for the Open Source Hardware and Software GPS car navigation he made. In the second he will speak about the home assistants like Google Home and Alexa, how to implement them with small Linux computer like OLinuXino and even with ESP32-Lyra and how to impress your girlfriend by switching on and off appliances and lights with your voice.
There will be KiCAD workshop where everyone (even with no knowledge) will learn how to install, configure and make small robot PCB with KiCAD. Then some general knowledges about PCB materials and how to prepare all files and send to PCB board house for manufacturing. How to select the components, footprints, good routing practices, DRC/ERC checks, Gerber generation and tips how to design your PCBs in way to be produced at lower cost. At the workshop will be our design engineers and you can talk to them directly about issues you encountered when worked with KiCAD or other CAD product.
In Sunday 10th of June we will have traditional Soldering workshop at Olimex training building, where we will assembly and program with Arduino small robot which can follow line or escape from labyrinth. This will be the same robot which PCB we will design in the KiCAD workshop in the previous day. We will go detailed through the program and study how modifications affect it.
The workshop with end with barbeque in Olimex backyard 🙂
We are looking forward to see you in Plovdiv soon!
04 May 2018 1 Comment
in arduino, event, Learning Tags: 2018, arduino, day, kids, learn, projects, smarty, tuxcon
Arduino Day is on 12th of May and celebrating at near 500 locations all around the world.
TuxCon and Smarty Kids foundation are participating in this initiative and organize event in Plovdiv in Grand center from 15.00 to 17.30.
The event is free and anyone can participate and learn how to program ESP8266-EVB boards with Arduino and to control servo motors remotely.
The original Arduino map is wrong, so if you want to participate please do not go to Saedinenie but to Plovdiv 🙂
The room has limited seats so we advice you to register in advance. If there are more people interested the organizers are ready to do it again for all these who can’t manage to register on time.
03 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in event Tags: hackathon, Hardware, tuxcon
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.
01 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in event Tags: foss, oshw, tuxcon
June 3rd10:30 – 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.
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