Hardware Meetup Newsletter (Nov 2025)

Hello Fellow Hardware Pros! 

You’re receiving this email because you’ve recently attended a Hardware Meetup event. With so much happening across 40+ cities and 40,000 members, we want to better connect you with a monthly newsletter. If this isn’t for you, feel free to unsubscribe below. 

In this newsletter you’ll find: 

1. Virtual Robotics Hiring Day with Crewline AI in December (Sponsor)

2. Recap of Last Month’s Events

3. Hardware Hiring Features

4. Community Open Mic

5. Upcoming Events

We’re grateful for your help in making this community the best hardware community for professionals!

Enjoy! 

Join Crewline AI and Hardware Meetup on Dec 11th for a virtual robotics hiring day. They’re looking for a Founding Perception Engineer and a Robotics Hardware Engineer as they build supervised autonomy for construction vehicles.

Learn more and RSVP here

This month was full of great meetups!

• 128th SF Hardware Meetup gathered 200+ hardware professionals at Astranis with discussions on industrial robotics and satellites, with talks from Astranis and Vendra. The event concluded with a facility tour.

• 113th NY Hardware Meetup brought together 200+ people at 10XBeta and focused on impactful health tech. Featured speakers included product development in medical devices and the Meta Neutral Band’s sEMG sensing technology.

• 60th Boston Hardware Meetup at LeafLabs covered leveraging process mining for robotic systems, navigating injection mold component trials (T0 samples), and categorizing hardware projects for production with Alogus Innovation and Design.

• 18th Oakland Hardware Meetup met at Fictiv’s headquarters with 200+ professionals signing up focused on manufacturing and supply chain.

• 13th San Jose Hardware Meetup at Beckhoff was themed around scaling hardware, featuring an Application Engineer from Beckhoff on automation errors and the CEO of Captify on scaling accessible wearable solutions.

• 8th Seattle Hardware Meetup at Fremont Brewing featured talks on making live sports accessible with the OneCourt haptic display and hardware challenges from a JPL mission, followed by an open house at FixturFab.

• 7th Sydney Hardware Meetup at Morse Micro shared war stories and storytelling around building hardware.

• 3rd Charlotte Hardware Meetup at UNC Charlotte’s PORTAL building featured a keynote on microalgae-filled building façade systems by Dr. Kyoung Hee Kim, lightning talks from four student organizations, and a discussion of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem.

  Help Sponsor a Future Hardware Meetup

• (SF Bay Area) Senior Electrical Engineer @ Astranis

• (SF Bay Area) Electrical Engineer @ Until Labs

• (SF Bay Area) Sr Robotics Technician @ Foundation

• (NY) Mechatronics Engineer @ Tuesday Lab

• (NY) Technical Project Lead @ Fuse Energy

• (NY) Mechatronics Engineer @ Radical AI

• (Boston) Senior Manager, R&D Hardware and Controls @ Lila Sciences

• (Boston) Senior Micro Injection Molding Engineer @ Parallel Fluidics

• (Boston) Technical Program Manager @ Humanoid

• (Boston) Mechatronics - Robotics Engineer @ Field AI

• (Utah) Principal Electrical Engineer @ LVT

More Hiring Features

• Jannes is building a “Robotic chef” to make healthy food universally accessible, regardless of location, time, or budget.

• Sophi is a freelance electrical engineer and interactive artist available to help early-stage startups with product development in 2026.

• Anand is developing solid state heat pumps and is actively seeking a co-founder for the venture.

• Maksim makes off grid solar for AI data centers, cutting costs more than 2x.

• Michael is looking to connect with those interested in lab automation and ai for science as he launches a community studio in 2026

  See Full List

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

• 8th Sydney Hardware Meetup | Rapid Prototyping & Materials Design (Nov 27)

• 11th Philly Hardware Meetup @ Delve (Dec 3)

• LA Rooftop Hardware Holiday Happy Hour (Dec 3)

• Boston Hardware Holiday Party @ SharkNinja (Dec 4)

• 5th Annual NY Hardware Holiday Market Party @ Industry City (Dec 9)

• SF Hardware Holiday Party @ Studio 45 (Dec 11)

• 5th Toronto Hardware Happy Hour @ Collective Arts (Dec 11)

• 12th Salt Lake City Hardware Meetup @ Orchestra Studio (Dec 18)

  Full Calendar Here

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.