Hardware Meetup Newsletter (August 2025)
Global updates for events, hiring, and community open mic features.
Hello Fellow Hardware Pros!
You’re receiving this email because you’ve recently attended a Hardware Meetup event. With so much happening across 50+ cities and 40,000 members, we want to better connect cities with a monthly newsletter. If this isn’t for you, feel free to unsubscribe below.
In this newsletter you’ll find:
Optics for Hire (Sponsor)
Recap of Last Month’s Events
Hardware Hiring Features
Community Open Mic
Upcoming Events
We’re grateful for you helping make this community the best hardware community for professionals!
Enjoy!
1. Optics for Hire (Sponsor)
From start-ups to global giants, OFH develops, prototypes, and manufactures systems to emit, collect, or control light. We help clients like Ring, PrimeSense, Amazon, and GE build medical devices, self-driving cars, scientific instruments, VR headsets, toys, semiconductor equipment and more.
2. Recent Meetup Recaps
This month was full of great meetups!
125th SF Hardware Happy Hour with Rho @ Rivian brought together 340+ builders for demos, networking, and community at our sold-out August meetup.
110th NY Hardware Meetup packed 220+ hardware professionals at Adafruit in Industry City with talks from Limor Fried, Melagen Labs, and Icarus Robotics.
12th San Jose Hardware Meetup at Triple Ring Tech with demos from Teiko Bio’s AI Pocket Immunologist, Cephla’s Octopi microscope, and new biomedical robotics projects.
5th Sydney Hardware Meetup met at Macquarie University Incubator with 100+ RSVPS discussing all things deep tech with investors and founders.
4th Toronto Hardware Happy Hour met at Collective Arts with 60+ local builders, founders, and engineers for networking, open mic, and community.
3rd Denver Hardware Meetup gathered space tech enthusiasts with talks from Honeybee Robotics, BAE Systems, and Onshape, plus demos and community open mic.
3rd Detroit Hardware Meetup @ Newlab at Reindustrialize discussed nearshoring with Astrohaus, Onshape, Doss, and Aether Manufacturing.
2nd Charlotte Hardware Meetup met at Elnik Systems to share projects and discuss AI, product development, and sustainability.
🚀 1st Phoenix Hardware Meetup at Pipeline Design & Engineering featured talks from Aaron Moncur and Dylan Pratt with 90+ sign ups.
🚀 1st Reno Hardware Meetup kicked off at The Depot with builders sharing demos, Q&A, and open mic to launch the city’s new hardware community.
SF Hardware Dinner @ Root Ventures sold out with 30 founders and investors gathering to discuss accelerating hardware development with new software, tools, and infrastructure.
AI + Consumer Hardware Virtual Summit featured Jon (Solidworks/Onshape), Fateen (Magical Toys), Sam (informal), and Tim (Throne) sharing strategies to scale hardware with AI, plus global open mic.
First AI + Hardware Worldwide Hack was hosted across SF, NYC, Seattle, and a virtual track. We had 100+ builders participate. Final demos here included companion robotics, low cost motion capture gloves, and non-invasive neurofeedback headsets.
3. Hardware Hiring Features
(SF Bay Area) Industrial Robotics and Automation Engineer @ Intrinsic
(SF Bay Area) Staff Robotics Controls Software Engineer @ Atomic Machines
(SF Bay Area) Robotics Engineer, Deployment & Testing @ Skild AI
(SF Bay Area) Robotics Software Engineer @ Medra
(SF Bay Area) Research Engineer FAIR (Robotics) @ Meta
(NY) Founding Robotics Software Engineer from Cubiq Recruitment
(NY) Electrical Engineer (Ph.D.) @ Exponent
(NY) Sr. Design Engineer (Mechanical) @ Smart Designs
(Boston) AI Engineer, Robotics (Computer Vision Focus) @ ndimension labs
(Boston) Autonomy and Robotics Engineer @ Aurora Flight Sciences
(Boston) Lead / Principal Robotics Engineer - Systems Architecture @ Lila Sciences
4. Global Community Open Mic
Pierre-Louis demo’d their first companion robot and is looking to connect with VCs funding early stage robotics startups.
Nikhil is working on low cost motion capture gloves for robotics data and is looking to talk to anyone who works in robotics.
Tim and team launched their new version of Throne for wellness monitoring through human waste. Check out their pre-orders now.
Shane is testing out Claude Code for turning PCB designs into python. Reach out if you want to try it or have feedback.
Tianqi, founder of Pamir AI, released the second generation of their Edge AI development board. Learn more and get yours here.
5. Upcoming Hardware Meetup Events
If you don’t see an event page yet, it will be up shortly. Most are shared a couple weeks prior.
7th Austin Hardware Meetup @ Antler (Aug 28)
3rd Berlin Hardware Meetup (Sept 5)
58th Boston Hardware Meetup @ Formlabs | Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Operations (Sept 11)
16th LA Hardware Meetup @ FPC (Sept 16)
126th SF Hardware Meetup @ Fellow | Great Design in the AI Age (Sept 18)
111th NY Hardware Meetup – Climate Week Special @ Infinite Machine (Sept 25)
7th Burlington Hardware Meetup @ Hula (Oct 2)
Thanks for joining for this monthly recap!
See you at an upcoming Hardware Meetup,
Michael + Nate from Hardware Meetup
Ps. If you have feedback on what you’d like to see more of or ideas to improve, please reply back.