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 preparing people to manufacture their own projects. 

Important note: This is a digital manufacturing and design workshop. We will teach you the tools, theory, and workflow needed to design and build the macro pad yourself, but no physical hardware kit or take-home device will be provided as part of the workshop.

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

The workshop is mostly computer-based. You’ll learn how to use the tools and workflows needed to build the device yourself after the workshop.

This will be a practical workshop series.

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.