1st Pittsburgh Hardware Meetup | Robots, EVs, and Manufacturing
The Hardware Meetup community is excited to announce our very first meetup in Pittsburgh! We're super excited to be hosting our first event at the Innovation Works Robotics Factory and discussing all things robots and electric vehicles.
If you have your own hardware to demo, bring it! You'll have an opportunity during the Community Open Mic (more on the agenda below). We're looking for prototypes, finished products, and part samples from the hardware on your desks.
Hardware Meetups happen across 30+ cities around the world, bringing together hardware professionals to network and learn from each other. We started in SF, NYC, and Boston!
We have a great group of guest speakers
Jonathan Powers, founder and CEO of SPM (Super Powers Mobility) and your emcee for the evening! SPM aspires to build off-road vehicles that allow humans to traverse the earth in a way that is less impactful from an emissions standpoint, and much higher satisfaction through previously unachievable electrified performance and simplified user experience. SPM is one of the first U.S. based, engineering centric off-road vehicle companies dedicated to full electrification, vertical integration, and IP ownership of a domestically produced powertrain.
Maximillian Obasiolu, founder and CEO of Lead-in Record Co. Lead-in Record Co is an end-to-end vinyl record manufacturing service for independent artists. They shorten the production of vinyl records from months to a week, making vinyl record record manufacturing accessible to independent artists. Learn how Maximillian and his team uses the Scale Shop to iterate their prototype.
ESTAT Actuation builds electroadhesive clutches and brakes that are 10x lighter, 10x more compact, and 1000x more efficient than conventional clutch hardware. Their customers use ESTAT products to create robot designs that were previously infeasible in the mobile robotics, logistics robots, wearable robots, and manufacturing verticals.
Agenda
6:00-6:30 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
6:30-6:45 - Welcome and introduction
6:45-8:00 - Guest talks and audience Q+A
8:00-8:30p - Community open mic: everyone has 2min to demo a prototype or talk about what they are working on
8:30-9:00p - Mix + mingle
Thank you to our host
Innovation Works (IW) is the most active seed-stage investor in Southwestern PA, with 460+ portfolio companies. Innovation Works founded AlphaLab, one of the first accelerators in the United States, and helps software, hardware, life sciences, and robotics startups throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania get to their next stage of growth.
Thank you to our partners
informal is a freelance collective for the best independent professionals in hardware and manufacturing. Whether a client is looking for a single contractor, a full time employee, or an entire team of professionals to work on everything from product development to go-to-market, informal has the right collection of people for the job. With projects as varied as AI wearables to rocket engines, informal members work with companies at every scale to design, manufacture, and ship physical products. https://www.informal.cc/contact/
If you want to help support the next meetup, please reach out to nate@informal.cc for sponsorship inquiries. See you soon!