September Hardware Roundup

We’re back with another edition of the hardware roundup. This month’s industry news features metal printing, aerospace, and trends in auto manufacturing, not to mention a pivot on Apple’s part to longevity manufacturing. We’ve also got updates on hardware products from OXO and Dyson.

In addition, check out the job opportunities and upcoming design, robotics, and manufacturing events. Hope to see you at an event soon.

Industry News

• HP steps into metal printing with the launch of HP Metal Jet and claims to be 50 times faster than existing methods.
  + Forbes’ profile of Desktop Metal.
• Boeing’s 747 turned 50—here’s a photo essay showing its impact.
  + SpaceX beat Boeing to secure a NASA contract to bring astronauts to the ISS.
• Audi and BMW are phasing out the manual transmission on their new models.
  + Tesla ramps up its Shanghai production facility amid increased tariffs and shipping costs.
• PARC and DARPA are partnering to help product developers take advantage of the design complexity features of additive and hybrid manufacturing.
  + How AI is revolutionizing manufacturing.
• Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible.
  + The Ocean Cleanup Project aims to clean up 88,000 tons of plastic from oceans.

Hardware Knowledge

• How to make the farthest-traveling paper airplane and an online museum for vanishing device sounds. + Building scale models.
• How to calculate your cost of delay. + Register for our upcoming webinar on cost estimation.
• The development story of the revolutionary OXO vegetable peeler. + Making Dyson’s gold supersonic hair dryer.
• iFixit went in depth on batteries, the secrecy around e-ink technology. + Printing a brushless motor.
• Building a perpetual calendar wristwatch. + Inside a carbide factory.

Events + Community

• Our friends at Grow Computer launched on Indiegogo and need your help to reach their goal.

Jobs

• Verb Surgical has a range of engineering roles open.
• Check out more engineering and manufacturing roles on The Prepared’s new jobs board.

Events

• This Friday is National Manufacturing Day—find an event near you here.
• Register for the Fictiv Design for Scale webinar with Cooper Perkins, taking place next Friday.
• To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, SV Robotics is hosting The Future of Robotics is FEMALE on Oct 9.
• Hardware Massive’s Hardware Summit takes place on Nov 7; use this link for 15% off your ticket.
• Visit our new HQ for the next SF Hardware Startup Meetup with Dragon Innovation on Nov 8.

For the Love of Engineering

A watch escapement model courtesy of Engineering Enigma’s Instagram.

Until next month!

Fin, Hardware Evangelist at Fictiv

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