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This month was full of great meetups!
130th SF Hardware Meetup @ Rivian 285+ attendees joined Rivian's Hayes Valley space for a climate tech and energy edition, with speakers from Rivian, DCVC, and Marathon Fusion. Sponsored by Circuitly (AI-powered PCB design).
19th LA Hardware Meetup @ Beckhoff Automation drew 170+ builders to El Segundo for a fireside chat on when to build in-house vs. outsource and what to automate, featuring Beckhoff’s EtherCAT Tech Group Director.
15th San Jose Hardware Meetup @ Circuit Launch brought 185+ people for a deep dive into virtual reality and teleoperation with SVVR, featuring demos from Fluid’s WebXR productivity tools and SimRhino’s simulation platform for hardware startups
8th Burlington Hardware Meetup Hosted at J Skis gathered 80+ at J Skis HQ for a spotlight on soft goods and outdoor gear. Founder Jason Levinthal shared his 30-year journey from inventing the first twin-tip ski in his parents' garage to building J Skis. Sponsored by VCET and Zero Gravity Brewery.
5th Munich Hardware Meetup had 100+ builders gather for the World/Orb makers' HQ for talks on biometric device design, open-source secure hardware from Tropic Square, and HeyCharge's EV charging module technology
2nd Paris Hardware Meetup focused on defense hardware at Hexa, featuring speakers from Harmattan AI, Helsing, and Landroval on autonomous systems, AI-driven defense, and the new European defense tech stack. Sponsored by Harmattan AI and Foxglove.
NY Hardware Happy Hour kicked off with 275+ people packed NYC’s Time Out Market with informal demos.
SF Physical AI Build Night featured PamirAI Dev Boards with Open Claw and Claude Code loaded on device for rapid prototyping.
SF Hardware Pitch Night @ Studio 45 with informal fund included 6 hard tech startups pitched live to a VC panel from Giant Ventures, 99 VC, and Blue Vision Capital, with demos including Lighthearted AI, a photonics devices for early detection of heart defects.
SF Climate Hardware Founder Dinner @ Otherlab with Rho gathered 30 founders and investors for a dinner focused on energy, batteries, and mobility.
(SF Bay Area) Linux Kernel / BSP Engineer @ Pamir
(SF Bay Area) Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer @ Medra
(SF Bay Area) Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer @ Physical Intelligence
(NY) Sr. Industrial Designer @ Smart Design
(NY) Sr. Hardware Engineer, GPU & PCIe @ CoreWeave
(NY) Robotics Application Engineer @ Bedrock Robotics
(Boston) Principal Firmware Engineer, Motor Control, Abiomed @ J&J
(Boston) Staff Robotics Engineer, Maritime @ Anduril
(Boston) Mechanical Engineer (Electrical Systems) @ Blue Water Autonomy
(Carlsbad/San Diego, CA) Program Manager @ SEACOMP
(Chicago) Sr. Mechanical Engineer @ Rhythm
(Seattle) Electrical Engineer with informal (reach out to Nate)
Vadim at CSC Leasing helps with equipment rentals for hardware companies of all sizes. Here are options for clean tech companies
Tequila is a former YC founder in insect agriculture robotics looking for new opportunities.
Maria is looking for people passionate about health with a hardware and sensor background to collaborate on noninvasive blood sugar wearable.
Ariel is hosting a Shenzhen Tech Tour Mar 28 - Apr 3.
Johnny is a Freelance generalist hardware engineer. I’m looking for interesting people with exciting projects.
If you don’t see an event page yet, it will be up shortly. Most are shared a couple weeks prior.
114th NY Hardware Meetup @ Biolabs NYU Langone | AI For Hardware (Feb 26)
8th SD Hardware Meetup @ Downtown Works Mission Valley | Hardware for Defense (Feb 26)
1st Bologna Hardware Meetup @ MUG (March 5)
131st SF Hardware Meetup @ HAC | AI + Robotics in Lab Automation (March 5)
9th Sydney Hardware Meetup @ Hotwire | Product and Positioning (March 12)
Austin Hardware Garage Party (March 16)
Miami Hardware Meetup Happy Hour @ Lost Boys Dry Goods (March 18)
62nd Boston Hardware Meetup @ Boston University RASTIC + Innovate@BU (March 19)
16th San Jose Hardware Meet-up @ Beckhoff | Accelerating Semiconductor Equipment Innovation (March 24)
SF Hardware Founder Dinner @ Root Ventures with Rho (March 25)
2nd Milan Hardware Meetup (March 26)
1st Prague Hardware Meetup @ Matuška (April 13)
Thanks for joining for this monthly recap!
See you at an upcoming Hardware Meetup,
Michael + Nate from Hardware Meetup
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