Hardware Meetup Newsletter (Oct 2024)
Global updates for events, hiring, and community open mic features.
Hello Fellow Hardware Pros!
You are receiving this email because you’ve recently attended a Hardware Meetup event. With so much going on across 30+ cities and 25,000 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:
Sponsor Spotlight: Harbor supported by informal
Recap of Last Month’s Events
Hardware Hiring Features
Community Open Mic
Upcoming Events
Enjoy!
1. Sponsor Spotlight: Harbor supported by informal
Harbor was built because the co-founders, parents themselves, were frustrated with products that overpromised and underdelivered when it came to safety and usability. The system consists of a 2K camera that produces its own Wi-Fi signal, allowing it to connect directly to the 10-inch tablet, with remote nanny support.
informal helped the Harbor team hire their CTO, head of product, and support with supply chain.
2. Recent Meetup Recaps
This month had nine meetups and one new city launch! Below are some recaps in case you missed them.
117th SF Hardware Meetup brought 600+ people together for SF Tech Week featuring open source humanoid robotics companies like K-Scale Labs.
101st NY Hardware Meetup themed around software in hardware was hosted at Viam with founders from Naya Studio and Partsimony.
52nd Boston Hardware Meetup met at MIT’s The Engine during their annual Tough Tech Conference.
14th LA Hardware Meetup met at Motivo to see their vehicle and robotic tractor facility with speakers from Monarch Tractor and First Resonance.
11th Zurich Hardware Meetup covered topics like spherene metamaterials and biodegradable materials at IPZ.
7th Portland Hardware Meetup at Loupe focused on electrification with speakers from Photon Marine, VVolt, and Lit Motors.
3rd Austin Hardware Meetup focused on embedded software development with Dojo Five and Knectiv.
2nd Houston Hardware Meetup discussed insights for consumer hardware like marketing and scale with GRIND Basketball at the Ion Prototyping Lab.
1st Atlanta Hardware Meetup 🚀 kicked off during ATL’s Design Festival hosting a panel including PolarPro, Stubby Nozzle Co., Kickr Design, and more.
3. Hardware Hiring Features
(SF/Bay Area) Electrical Engineer @ Atomic Semi.
(SF/Bay Area) Senior Hardware System Design Engineer @ Humane.
(SF/Bay Area) VP of Hardware Engineering @ Fellow.
(SF/Bay Area) Sr. Controls Engineer @ Heirloom.
(SF/Bay Area) Head of Hardware Engineering @ Butlr.
(NY) Firmware Engineer - AirPods @ Apple.
(NY) Embedded Firmware Engineer @ Osmo.
(NY) Senior Firmware Engineer @ Precision Neuroscience.
(Boston) Hardware Manager @ Lumafield.
(Boston Metro) Senior Electrical Engineer @ SharkNinja.
(Boston/SF) Product Manager @ All Spice.
4. Global Community Open Mic
(SF) Peter Lowe is hiring founding software engineer at Cargo, which just closed their $3M seed round.
(SF) Anibal is hiring for SoyMomo designing technology for kids.
(SF) Fateen opened up pre-orders for Magical Toys’ AI powered stuffed dinos.
(SF) Justin is raising a pre-seed round for a data platform for humanoid robots.
(SF) Vaishak is looking for founding engineers for a general purpose robotics startup in the commercial kitchen space.
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.
Oakland Hardware Happy Hour @ Portlabs | Demo Night (Nov 13)
118th SF Hardware Meetup @ Future House | AI in Biotech (Nov 14)
102nd NY Hardware Meetup @ Smart Design | Consumer Hardware (Nov 14)
53rd Boston Hardware Meetup @ 908 Devices | Life Sciences (Nov 14)
1st Toronto Hardware Meetup @ Mosaic Manufacturing 🚀 (Nov 14)
12th Zürich Hardware Meetup @ ETH Student Project House (Nov 22)
3rd Houston Hardware Meetup @ The Ion Prototyping Lab (Dec 5)
And stay tuned for upcoming hardware holiday parties!
Thanks for joining for this monthly recap!
See you at an upcoming hardware meetup,
Nate + Michael from Hardware Meetup
Ps. If you have feedback on what you’d like to see more of or ideas to improve, send along.