136th SF Hardware Meetup @ Studio 45 | Demo Night
- This event is a casual meetup for hardware entrepreneurs and enthusiasts to showcase physical products, prototypes, and components in a happy hour walk-around demo format.
- It is designed for hardware founders, makers, and independent professionals to network and share resources.
- Attendees can connect with the local hardware community and explore support available for building hardware businesses.
About this event
Join us for our 136th SF Hardware Meetup as a summer demo night.
🤖 Bring physical demos! It can be products, prototypes, components, or anything physical. We're doing this happy hour style with walk around demos.
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Shout-out to our venue partner!
Studio 45 is a space dedicated to supporting local entrepreneurs and teams building hardware. Located in Mission/Bernal Area, the studio gathers the community, resources, space, and tools needed to build a business making physical products.
Agenda
There is no set agenda. This is a casual happy hour with walk around demos and mix + mingle style experience.
Thank you to our community partners!
informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware. Whether you're 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, the informal collective has the perfect collection of people for the job. Learn more.
If you want to help support the next meetup, please reach out to michael (at) hardwaremeetup (dot) com for sponsorship inquiries.
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This event is part of SF Hardware Meetup, which hosts monthly demo nights. Hardware Meetup meets across 40+ cities with 40k members.
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