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Bring the thing you're actually building.

A Pacific Northwest show-and-tell for people building hardware and software. A few local builders demo what they're actually making, in whatever state it's in, then everyone hangs around to meet the people behind the work.

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Free · North Bank Innovations, Vancouver WA

A full room on folding chairs, watching a builder talk through a programmable keypad shown on the projector screen.
August demo night, North Bank Innovations

What to expect

  1. Anyone who builds.

    Microcontrollers, robotics, AR/VR, apps, startups, side projects, tools. First project or fiftieth, demoing or just here to look. If you make things, this room is for you.

  2. Real demos, no pitches.

    Show the thing running, or half-running. No hype reels, no fundraising. Demo breaks mid presentation, no problem, part of the process.

  3. Everyone gets the floor.

    Ask the question you think is too basic. Give people the room you'd want for your own half-finished thing. Our code of conduct holds for everyone here.

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The evening

5:00 PM

Doors

Snacks, name tags, and standing around.

Five people wearing name tags stand talking around a small robot arm on a workbench; one holds a can of sparkling water.
5:30 PM

Demos

A few builders, each taking the time their demo needs — ten minutes, twenty, longer if it earns it.

Two builders at the demo table with a small robot arm and a laptop, one pointing a remote at the screen, while the seated audience looks on smiling.
6:30 PM

Open floor

Plug in, pass it around, argue about it.

A builder holds up a phone while explaining a 3D-printed robotic hand to three listeners; behind them, others lean over the hand and its wiring on a table.
~7:30 PM

Lights off.

Photos from the August demo night.

Demo log

Everything shown so far.

The club keeps a record of what got demoed, by whom. It is the only membership list there is.

Sep 29

Tue · 2026

Nucode

Ultra-low-power BLE 6.0 and Wi-Fi modules with edge AI on the module. Visiting from Korea with the fall cohort of the Oregon UAS Accelerator.

Hardware
Ben Parisot

ThruLine — keeping AI agents from wasting a team's time and the boss's money.

Software
David Morford

LooksyTV — a fifteen-year-old product idea, revived and turned into a working platform with a small team of AI agents.

Software

Aug 25

Tue · 2026

Richard Amerman

A programmable keypad rewired to drive a Mac Studio, a MacBook Pro and an iPhone across one Tailscale network.

Hardware
Oregon AIR Challenge finalists

Projects out of the AI & Robotics Challenge.

Both
Eric Preisz

OneVoicer — put a link or a QR code in front of ten people or ten thousand, ask an open question, and watch the answers come back synthesized in real time.

Software

Jul 21

Tue · 2026

First night
Sam Keen

A cheap microcontroller board with a colour screen, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth already on it.

Hardware
Denis Kieft

Sensors reporting in from the field, end to end.

Hardware
Anil Murty

TokenJam — watching what AI tokens actually cost you.

Software
Cory Simpson

A builder for edge AI and robotics applications.

Software