We just added this illuminance calculator to the site - but it's important to also lay out All The Grains of Salt you should take it with!It only works for

YOUR Submissions to Engineering SNAFU, Volume 1: Stories of Noteworthy Atrocities at Factories Unveiled

Over the past year, several videos on TikTok went viral over how irritatingly bright headlamps in vehicles are becoming in the United States. One of those was from Spire Starter's

Spire Starter's project, the hardware engineering community, Odd Engineer is adding on a new forum! Engineers and those in search of freelance hardware engineers can now even more freely reach out for assistance from

JUST ANNOUNCED: Spire Starter is one of 13 new additions to companies that will now be allowed to bid on a multitude of upcoming contracts with NASA! These tasks may

On Episode 5 of the Odd Engineer Podcast, we sat down with Greg Fisher, founder of HardwareMassive and HardwareCon. Greg has over 17 years of experience bouncing between China and other

COVID restrictions mucked up the works for all sorts of businesses -- and especially those of us who provide engineering services related to real, physical widgets. In an experiment to

Erin McDermott's talk at this year's Synopsys LightTools User Group meeting is hidden in the customer portal. ​So, when we got a request from non-Synopsys customers to see it, we

Director of Engineering, Erin M. McDermott, will be presenting at the Synopsys LightTools User Group Meeting on September 17th, 2020.​ ​Erin's talk will cover some of the neat features available in LightTools

Did you see the article on SolidSmack in which Spire Starter client, Core, was featured? Check it out if you're interested in learning the fascinating lessons they garnered the hard way.

Spire Starter's Director of Optical Engineering, Erin McDermott, will be attending CES 2020 to cover tech news for SolidSmack.com. Have optics-related tech to show off at the show? Please get in

Nichia just announced their new LED technology, the 2-in-1 tunable white LED. It will allow a range of color temperatures to be emitted from a single, small, LED package. Ok, but who cares?

We're in beautiful Colorado for all of September 2019! So exciting to learn about the many emerging startups and tech happenings here. Right now, we're finishing up at Denver Startup Week.

We'll be in Seattle the last week of October to visit a few events and facilities and meet with people working on a HW projects involving optics. Spire Starter provides

We were thrilled when Dragon Innovation asked to add us as their optical engineering resource! As seen on Dragon Innovation's website. Boom. Dragon Innovation helps companies bring their hardware ideas successfully through