47th Boston Hardware Meetup @ Formlabs | The Art and Science of Making Hardware

Join us this month for conversations about art and science of hardware design and development. Shout out to our sponsors Particle, NexPCB, and Onshape for helping make this evening possible.

We have a great group of guest speakers

• Erik Fasnacht, Solution Architect at Particle, along with Jermey Losaw, Director of Engineering at Enventys, and Andrea Wolga, Senior Firmware Engineer at Mamava, will lead an engaging session on Particle's Partner Program. This trio of experts will guide you through how Mamava harnessed the program to expedite their product design process, and show how you can effectively utilize this program for your current and future design projects.
• Griffin van Horne is a design engineer using rapid prototyping to bring ideas to life, and the Maker-in-Residence at the Brown-RISD Masters of Art in Design Engineering (MADE) Program, the co-founder of Traintrackr, and a board member of Cambridge Hackspace.
• Thunder Zhang, CEO and Co-founder of NexPCB has expertise in the agile hardware startup, electronics industry, supply chain strategy management, and global collaboration. He is interested in supporting anyone who is building successful IOT startups in today’s digital transitioning world.

Agenda
6:30-7:00 - Arrival
7:00-7:10 - Welcome and introduction
7:10-7:30 - Guest speakers and audience Q&A
8:10-8:30p - Community open mic
8:30-9:30p - Mix + mingle

Thank you to our partners
Formlabs is a 3D printing technology developer and manufacturer. The company develops and manufactures 3D printers and related software and consumables.

Particle provides an integrated IoT platform-as-a-service that delivers individuals and businesses the fastest way to connect, manage, and deploy software applications to connected devices from prototype to commercial production. Make sure to check your email after the event on how to get a free Photon 2 WiFi development board.

NexPCB Accelerates IoT Innovations into Great, Global Businesses. They excel in the critical phases of prototype and pilot runs, where they make substantial improvements to EVT, DVT, and PVT processes. Their extensive service offerings encompass Innovation Consulting, Engineering Acceleration, Production Delivery, and Product Lifecycle Management. Visit the NexPCB Capabilities page to learn more.

Onshape, a PTC business, is a professional product design platform with full-featured CAD, rendering, simulation, CAM (coming soon!), built-in PDM, and enterprise analytics in a single cloud-native system. Onshape are offering FREE professional licenses to those that qualify for their Startup Program. Apply here: [onshape.pro/hardwaremeetup](https://www.onshape.com/en/programs/entrepreneur?utm_source=hardwaremeetup&utm_medium=event&utm_campaign=2023_DI_StartUpProgram&mostrecentleadsource=hardwaremeetup-event--20733)!

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