Hardware Meetup Newsletter (June 2026)

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In this newsletter you’ll find: 

1. Global Hardware Festival in Las Vegas (Jan 2027)

2. Recap of Last Month’s Events

3. Hardware Hiring Features

4. Community Open Mic

5. Upcoming Events

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This month was full of great meetups!

• 134th SF Hardware Meetup meets tonight at Humanmade covering all things electronics design and development. Speakers include Valentina, CEO, Founder of Allspice, ​John, Founder + Circuit Design Engineer at Highland Technology, and Nathan founder of Orthestra.

• 17th San Jose Hardware Meetup @ SeeedStudio 50+ gathered for a physical AI edition with Nick Velasquez (Founder, DeepSea Developments) on building with Hugging Face’s open-source Reachy Mini humanoid.

• 13th Philly Hardware Meetup 75+ joined at Ben Franklin Technology Partners with Nicole Macnab (RF Hardware & Embedded Systems Engineer, Deepwave) on real-time RF intelligence at the edge, and Arjun Nandakumar (Co-founder & CTO, Scout Robotics) on AI-powered robotic systems for rail and infrastructure inspection. Sponsored by BFTP and Solid Product Design.

• 9th Munich Hardware Meetup 115+ packed Dassault Systèmes for an evening on HIL platforms and CE compliance, with Tobias Meyer (incoming IoT Device Expert, Hula Earth) on navigating CE marking and the EU Cyber Resilience Act, and Joël Schulz-Andres.

• 7th Montréal Hardware Meetup met at Hurley’s Irish Pub for a hardware-software collaboration edition, continuing the series on bridging the gap between the two communities, hosted by Garage&co.

• 1st Vancouver Hardware Meetup @ Global Relay 🚀 150+ turned out to launch the Vancouver chapter, with Jeffrey Yee (CEO, Aarcomm Systems), Peter Zhao (CTO, Enigma Interconnect Corp.), and Tony Jackson (Founder, Hardware Unconference). Sponsored by Enigma Interconnect.

• 1st Modena Hardware Meetup @ Motor Valley Accelerator 🚀 50+ gathered at Italy’s leading mobility accelerator, with Marcello Majonchi (CPO, Arduino) and Diego Melpignano (Advanced Research Director, STMicroelectronics). Hosted by Motor Valley Accelerator, powered by Plug and Play.

• Boston Hardware Happy Hour had 100+ join at Night Shift Brewing on Lovejoy Wharf for a Tech Week happy hour.

• SF Hardware Hiring Dinner @ Studio 45 brought 30+ founders and managers together to discuss hiring Electrical, Mechanical, and Robotic Engineers with Colare.

• NY Hardware Meetup Rooftop Happy Hour brought together 200+ people during a16z’s Tech Week with Thalo Labs & Planeteer Capital.

Help Sponsor a Future Hardware Meetup

• (SF, CA) Sr. Mechanical Engineer @ Remedy Robotics

• (SF, CA) Sr. Electrical Engineer @ Remedy Robotics

• (SF, CA) Autonomy Engineer @ Remedy Robotics

• (SF, CA) Mechanical Engineer @ Ouster

• (San Bruno, CA) Mechanical Engineer @ Chariot Defense

• (New York, NY) Simulation Engineer @ Antioch

• (New York, NY) Mechanical Engineer @ Beyond Reach Labs

• (New York, NY) Hardware Engineer @ Nidus Technologies

• (New York, NY) Mechanical Engineer – Data Centers @ Flux Resources

• (Brooklyn, NY) Sales & Business Development AM/3D Printing @ Emulatics

• (Marlborough, MA) Principal Hardware Systems Engineer @ Collins Aerospace

• (Cambridge, MA) Sr. Robotics Engineer @ HaloBraid

More Hiring Features

• Slate, Co-founder of Haven Sauna, is looking to talk to people with experience in battery selection and integration for consumer products.

• Brooks, product at Flux AI, looking to talk to founders and builders using KiCad and EasyEDA as he’s building new onboarding flows and curious for feedback.

• Siddarth is building CCTV cameras that runs VLM on device and looking to connect with people with experience in manufacturing in India.

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If you don’t see an event page yet, it will be up shortly. Most are shared a couple weeks prior.

• 135th SF Hardware Meetup @ Antler VC | Demo Night (July 9)

• 10th Sydney Hardware Meetup | Prototype to Product: The Hard Part of Hardware (July 9)

• SF Hardware Supply Chain Dinner @ Kipo AI (July 15)

• 64th Boston Hardware Meetup @ Nona Technologies (July 16)

• 19th San Jose Hardware Meetup @ BigHat Bio | AI/ML in Lab Automation (July 21)

• 118th NY Hardware Meetup - HW DEMO DAY at Brooklyn Navy Yard Employment Center (July 23)

• 4th Miami Hardware Meetup @ The DOCK (July 23)

• 24hr AI for Science World Models Hack @ Zeon Systems in SF (July 24)

• 10th San Diego Hardware Meetup | The Road to Scale: San Diego’s Zero-to-One Hardware Story (July 25)

• SF Hardware Founder Dinner with Rho @ Gigascale Capital | Energy and Infrastructure (July 29)

• 10th Burlington Hardware Meetup at Generator (Aug 6)

• Global Hardware Festival in Las Vegas 2027 (Jan 2027)

Full Calendar Here

Thanks for joining us 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.