The 2024 edition of TuxCon took place on May 11th and 12th at the Technical University of Sofia, Plovdiv branch, featuring presentations on various interesting topics.

TuxCon is an annual open-source conference held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, aimed to promote the adoption of open-source hardware and software, and organized by passionate volunteers.
Engineers and Researchers from Romit LTD took part in the 2024 edition of TuxCon.

This edition featured a couple of talks (in Bulgarian) about the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded.

Sadika Hasan, a senior-year student from “Paisii Hilendarski” University of Plovdiv made a presentation on the topic: A custom Linux distribution and Software Development Kit (SDK) by extending Poky, the Yocto Project’s reference distribution. Additionally, she covered the integration of the custom SDK with Visual Studio Code and the remote debugging of a C++ application on a Raspberry Pi Zero W 2.

Sadika’s presentation is part of her bachelor thesis, supervised by Professor Dimitar Tokmakov from ECIT (Electronics and Information and Communication Technology) department of “Paisii Hilendarski” University of Plovdiv and Konsulko engineer Leon Anavi.

Professor Tokmakov, with the assistance of engineer Nikolay Nedelev from Romit LTD, is actively involved in the ECOVEM project (European Center of Vocational Excellence in Microelectronics).

As part of their efforts and the business-science-education cooperation plan, two students from PU developed diploma theses for their Bachelor of Science degrees utilizing the Yocto Project.
These theses were based on real-life problem solving and the practical experience of the Konsulko Group with industrial embedded Linux devices.

The original publication is on Konsulko’s web page.