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This Thursday, December 3rd, join us for a Live HackChat about the Raspberry Pi Zero with special guest [Limor Fried]. You may know [Limor] as [Lady Ada], the founder of Adafruit Industries. Adafruit ...
While still weary from our TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, The Hackaday crew had a chance we couldn’t pass up: A tour of Adafruit Industries. Adafruit isn’t open to the public, so an opportunity to see ...
When Adafruit Industries, a leader in open-source hardware manufacturing, published a Bitcoin mining tutorial last summer, helping people mine the controversial digital currency to purchase Adafruit ...
Adafruit Industries has put together a weekend project for people worried the NSA is monitoring how many reruns of Seinfeld they watch on their tablet. The Onion Pi Tor Proxy is a weekend project that ...
The cover of Time as Person of the Year can’t be far away for Limor Fried. As the founder of one of the most popular open source hardware companies, inventor, maker, and visionary Ms. Fried has to be ...
Adafruit Industries has signed a 10-year lease for space at Building 19 at Industry City. Four companies expand at Brooklyn's Industry City 4 leases signed at ...
LEDs have a special place in every maker's heart, and it's because we all love the ability to create light at moment's notice. Almost every project I have made over the last two decades has included ...
Back in 2005, MIT engineering graduate student Limor Fried was procrastinating hard on finishing the "busy work" of her final thesis by building her own portable music player. From scratch. Her ...
There’s a long-held notion that China should be the go-to place for those in need of inexpensive manufactured products, but some prominent makers don’t buy it. Our own John Biggs sat down with ...
Why She’s a MAKER: She designs electronics, runs a business, has millions of followers on social media and launched that other makers movement—the one focused on building stuff. Limor Fried earned a ...
If you’ve ever considered trying to make your own version of Ice King’s crown with a digital flair, you’re in luck. Cartoon Network, Microsoft MakeCode and Adafruit announced Monday that they are ...
Lego. We love them. They ignite the imagination, allowing both children and adults of all ages to build and create amazing things. Recently, Lego has been specifically targeting young girls in a ...