Burkhard specializes in smart HMIs for industrial machines. His marquee projects include the operator terminals of sugar beet harvesters, forage harvesters, excavators, and metal sheet bending machines.
As a solo consultant, Burkhard coaches his customers how to build these smart HMIs - mostly with Qt. This often includes developing communication with the machine over CAN, BLE, or WLAN and building custom embedded Linux systems with Yocto. These systems support secure boot, file system encryption, OTA updates, and remote support over their lifetime.
In his free time, Burkhard likes to go hiking and skiing in the nearby Bavarian and Austrian mountains.