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 ...

The HP 16c Collector's Edition [HP via Adafruit] revives a mundane but well-loved tool. In 1982, the original 16c was ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Electronics manufacturing company Adafruit is putting its 50,000-square-foot factory in New York City ...

Open-source electronics manufacturer Adafruit Industries is breaking up with Manhattan to join a growing hub of tinkerers at Brooklyn’s Industry City. Asking rent in the nine-story converted ...

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 ...

[Photo: Adafruit] So, you’ve got a Raspberry Pi (or you’re impatiently waiting for one to be shipped, as most of us are) and you’re trying to figure out what to do with it. The options are pretty much ...

A few years ago, Adafruit launched the Feather 32u4 Basic Proto. This tiny development board featured — as you would expect — an ATMega32u4 microcontroller, a USB port, and a battery charging circuit ...

Adafruit has disclosed a data leak that occurred due to a publicly-viewable GitHub repository. The company suspects this could have allowed "unauthorized access" to information about certain users on ...

Limor Fried is the founder and CEO of Adafruit Industries, a maker of DIY open source engineering and electronics kits, accessible for consumers of any age or skillset. Adafruit kit users can create ...

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 ...