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This month was full of great meetups!
133rd SF Hardware Meetup @ WHIPSAW 270+ gathered at Whipsaw's SF studio for an embodied AI edition with Cole (VP of Industrial Design, Whipsaw), Charvi (Engineer, Chef Robotics) on physical AI for food automation, and Ryan + Isaac (Co-founders, MakerMods) on USB-C robot modules controlled by AI.
117th NY Hardware Meetup @ Cornell Tech - Assistive Tech 250+ signed up for welcome remarks from Niti Parikh (founding director, Cornell Tech MakerLAB) and Thijs Roumen (director, Matter of Tech lab) on digital fabrication and speech accessibility, plus student demos and makerLAB tours. Sponsored by Autodesk.
20th LA Hardware Meetup @ Gunderson Dettmer hosted 100+ builders for a conversation on building software for hardware between Michael Corr (Co-founder & CEO, Duro) and Nima Ashraf (Physical Fund).
9th San Diego Hardware Meetup 50+ met at Expertise Engineering in Sorrento Valley for a medtech edition with Kaheawai Kaonohi (Founder, The Disabled Soloist), Young Lee (Global Product Design, Dexcom), and Brian Coullahan (Market Development, Element Biosciences) on next-gen sequencing.
8th Burlington Hardware Meetup Hosted @ UVM SEED 70+ came to UVM's Votey Hall to celebrate the Senior Experience in Engineering Design (SEED) capstone, 19 years in, 2,000+ engineering seniors and 500 projects. Sponsored by the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET).
8th Munich Hardware Meetup 50+ packed Astallerstraße 15 for honest lessons on going from factory floor to firmware with Tal Chitayat (Managing Partner, Genimex), Nazar Kohut (Program Manager, Lemberg Solutions), and Rik Oudenhoven (Co-founder, For Future Use).
4th Framingham Hardware Meetup @ Entrepreneur Innovation Center 30+ joined for talks from Meryl Mallery (EVP at XL Batteries) and Todd MacFadden (Senior Technology Development Engineer at Bose) on PCB failure modes and best practices to avoid them.
NY Hardware Engineering TechWalk 125 joined a TechWalk x NY Hardware Meetup collaboration for an outdoor networking stroll through Brooklyn.
SF Hardware Founder Dinner with Rho @ Antler VC brought together 30+ founders building across robotics for agriculture, food automation, medtech, and consumer electronics.
informal is helping hire Electrical Engineers with 3-5 years of experience in a production environment in Sausalito, Marin County, CA. Reach out to Nate if interested.
(SF, CA) Head of Hardware Design @ Flux AI
(SF, CA) RF/ Communication Systems Team Lead @ Astranis
(SF, CA) Electrical Engineer @ Humble Robotics
(NY) Sr. Robotics Engineer (Systems + Controls) @ Mbodi AI
(NY) Electrical Engineer @ Reflex Robotics
(Rochester, NY) Electrical Engineer Senior II @ Ultra Maritime
(Boston) Sensor and Systems Engineer (Member of the Technical Staff) @ Trnsfyr
(Somerville, MA) Materials Test Engineer @ Commonwealth Fusion
Nico is a founder looking to connect with people connected to scaling up maintenance and operations for solar farms. He just completed Founders, Inc. Canopy program.
Anubhab is looking to connect with early stage investors for his sleep bedside device.
Rose is curious to meet people about PCB design to see how AI can help.
If you don’t see an event page yet, it will be up shortly. Most are shared a couple weeks prior.
1st Vancouver Hardware Meetup (May 28)
Boston Hardware Happy Hour (May 28)
13th Philly Hardware Meetup (June 3)
AI for Science Summit in SF (June 16-17)
1st Modena Hardware Meetup (June 18)
134th SF Hardware Meetup @ Humanmade (June 25)
Thanks for joining us for this monthly recap!
See you at an upcoming Hardware Meetup,
Michael + Nate from Hardware Meetup
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