Name: Hardware Guild: Build Your Own Macro Pad
Start: 2026-05-17T14:00:00.000+05:30
End: 2026-05-17T21:00:00.000+05:30
Location: BrightNodes Pvt Ltd | Bengaluru

Guild Meets

 is hosting a hands-on digital manufacturing workshop series on building real hardware products.

For this series, we’ll collaboratively design a 

 a compact desk device that can trigger shortcuts, automations, and productivity workflows.

The goal is simple: teach people the practical skills needed to start building their own hardware projects.

People from the community will teach different steps involved in the process, including product thinking, component selection, electronics, PCB design, enclosure design, fabrication planning, assembly thinking, debugging, and documentation.

This is not a lecture-only meetup. It is a build-focused lab where we learn by making the actual design files, understanding the process, and assembling the final macro pad together. We’ll still teach the full design process, including the PCB, enclosure, manufacturing files, and assembly thinking, but the session will now end with a hands-on build of the actual device.

We want to equip the community with real hardware-building skills instead of becoming just another community where people only talk about ideas.

By the end, participants should understand how to take an idea and move it toward a working physical prototype.

: a compact desk device that can trigger shortcuts, automations, and productivity workflows.

The focus is on the hardware design and digital manufacturing process, not AI hype. We’ll walk through how the macro pad is designed and then assemble the actual device during the workshop.

We’ll teach the software tools and design workflows used to make hardware products, including:

The focus is on learning the full path from idea to buildable hardware.

This will be a practical hands-on workshop.

Each session will focus on one part of the build process. Community members will guide participants through the different stages of turning an idea into a physical product.