The Hardware Brief
The Hardware Brief is a monthly market brief for engineers and hardware founders, curated by Peter Sords of Kyros Engineering in Cleveland, Ohio. Each issue covers what moved that month in regulation, components and supply chain, where Ohio's hardware money and momentum sit, small teams building real hardware, and events worth attending. Every story ends with a plain statement of why it matters to someone building a product. This page archives every issue that has been sent.
It is about your industry, not about Kyros. Each story is self-contained, links to its source, and says what it changes for a team building hardware.
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Issue 03 · October 2026
Ohio's hardware money is not evenly spread and it is not all real. This month maps where it actually sits, metro by metro, and what each pot will and will not pay for.
Issue 02 · September 2026
Three items this month circle the same idea: on physical products, the expensive decisions get made earlier than most plans assume. There is also a new NSF Engine in Northeast Ohio worth understanding properly, because the headline number and the money a company can actually reach are two different things.
Issue 01 · July 2026
Welcome to the first issue. This month: FDA agreed to review devices faster, Apple moved $30B of silicon onshore, one API key exposed a million cameras, and a $499 kit put a phased-array RF lab on the bench.
The Hardware Brief is curated monthly by Peter Sords, founder and Director of Engineering at Kyros Engineering, a senior-led electronics, PCB, embedded firmware and hardware product development firm in Cleveland, Ohio. More about Kyros
A monthly market brief for people who build physical products, curated by Peter Sords of Kyros Engineering in Cleveland, Ohio. Each issue has four parts: The Brief (what moved this month), Ohio Signal (money and momentum close to home), Builds Worth Watching (small teams, real hardware) and On the Calendar.
Monthly. Issue 1 went out at the end of July 2026, issue 2 on September 1, 2026 and issue 3 on October 1, 2026. Each one is published here after it is sent.
Yes. These are the web versions of issues already sent, with the same stories, links and notes, lightly trimmed for the web. Email-only parts such as unsubscribe links are left out, and calendar items are kept as they were published on the send date.
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