We have one word for you: plastics. We are lucky to have two speakers at this hardware meetup, both with experience in injection molding. Come learn from their personal journeys with this manufacturing technique.

Brandon Gamm of PRIXEL Press will share lessons in quality control from a factory visit to Dongguan, China. "Before I took off, I kept wondering, 'Do I really need to be there?' The tooling was already made and fit dialed in. Still, the thought of possibly receiving 250,000 unusable PRIXEL sorts because I didn't care enough to visit kept nagging at me."

Sam Wechsler, an engineer and entrepreneur, will share his experiences with recycling 3D prints, how plastics extrusion works and how it applies to 3D printing and injection molding.

How to find us: Find street parking anywhere downtown (free after 5pm). Enter the vestibule at 30 3RD St. Ring the doorbell. Sign in at the front desk. Join us in the Community Room.

Tech Valley Center of Gravity is an affiliated partner of Innovate 518.