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

September 21, 2023
NHTSA Letter  on Behalf of TikTok About Super Bright Headlamps and Their Glare 2

NHTSA Letter on Behalf of TikTok About Super Bright Headlamps and Their Glare 2

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

January 3, 2023
New, Free Forum for Hardware Engineers on OddEngineer.com!

New, Free Forum for Hardware Engineers on OddEngineer.com!

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

December 2, 2022
Spire Starter Wins $175 MM Contract with NASA to Connect Them with Freelance Engineers!

Spire Starter Wins $175 MM Contract with NASA to Connect Them with Freelance Engineers!

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

April 20, 2022
Greg Fisher on the Odd Engineer Podcast + HARDWARECON Coming June 8th!

Greg Fisher on the Odd Engineer Podcast + HARDWARECON Coming June 8th!

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

June 3, 2021
New Project Just Launched: Odd Engineer!

New Project Just Launched: Odd Engineer!

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

February 5, 2021
Public Redo Version of  Synopsys LightTools Talk

Public Redo Version of  Synopsys LightTools Talk

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

October 11, 2020
Sept. 17th, 2020: LightTools Presentation

Sept. 17th, 2020: LightTools Presentation

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

September 2, 2020
Core Wellness on SolidSmack

Core Wellness on SolidSmack

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.

February 26, 2020
Director of OE, Erin McDermott, Attending CES 2020 for SolidSmack.com

Director of OE, Erin McDermott, Attending CES 2020 for SolidSmack.com

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

December 31, 2019
Nichia Announces new 2-in-1 tunable white LED

Nichia Announces new 2-in-1 tunable white LED

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?

September 19, 2019
Spire Starter Touring Colorado,  Attending Denver Startup Week

Spire Starter Touring Colorado, Attending Denver Startup Week

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.

September 19, 2019
Touring Seattle October 2018

Touring Seattle October 2018

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

October 23, 2018
Dragon Innovation’s Optical Engineering Resource

Dragon Innovation’s Optical Engineering Resource

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

July 7, 2018

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