It's the most wonderful time of the year: CES is almost here!

CES is the one event all year when everyone in hardware is in the same place at the same time. That's true for informal, our friends at Onshape, KD Product Development, Tomorrow Lab, Intercreate and SEACOMP, and it's certainly true for the Hardware Meetup community. So we're bringing everyone who's in Vegas together to kick off an epic week of hardware with us.

We'll be back at the Punk Rock Museum, but this time we'll have the entire place to ourselves. That includes their bar, the museum itself full of all things punk rock history, and the parking lot, where we'll have a food truck, robots and live hardware demos.

Why the Punk Rock Museum you ask? Because what's more punk rock than building a hardware company? You have to be a special kind of crazy to choose this path, but damn if it isn't a ton of fun.

Speaking of, we'll have some really cool (and really fun) hardware demos at the party:

Test drive iFixit's FixHub Smart Soldering Iron with one of our “joule thief” learn-to-solder flashlight kits.
Autonomous vehicle rides with Saferide.ai
Augmented Reality glasses from Raven Resonance
Scent experiences from OVR Technology
Meet Ace, the Talking 240Z from Soulinterface.ai
New standards for rotary controls from The Haptics Company and XeelTech
The portable monitor reimagined by Standout
Meet Lens Lizard, the first ever remote controlled backup camera cleaner
A new kind of home battery from Pila that delivers intelligent, automatic backup power and everyday energy optimization for any home
AI toys kids and parents actually love by bondu
Smart kitchen organization and food waste mitigation from informal member Chris Fortunato
And many many more (if you want to demo email us at hello@informal.cc)

Thank you to our sponsors for helping make this event possible.

Our Supporting Sponsor

Onshape by PTC is the leading cloud-native CAD & PDM platform used by global enterprises to agile hardware teams who are done dealing with crashes, lost files, and outdated tools. Onshape runs on any device with zero IT overhead, enables secure real-time collaboration, and includes built-in PDM with branching, merging, and full version history.

Try Onshape for free via their Discovery Program, or if you’re a startup, you can apply to their Onshape Startup Program.

Our Digital Sponsors

KD Product Development is an engineering, supply chain development and manufacturing services company that helps innovative companies get smart, connected and highly cosmetic products to market quickly and efficiently.

Tomorrow Lab is a New York–based hardware innovation studio that partners with startups and established companies to invent, prototype, and scale market-ready physical products through a holistic integration of design, engineering, and manufacturing.

Intercreate, a San Francisco-based product development firm, drives product success through expert electrical, firmware, and embedded software engineering. We love what we do and enjoy the collaborative partnership of solving complex challenges to launch market-ready innovations.

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