Q&A: Open Source Electronics Pioneer Limor Fried on the DIY Revolution

Q&A: Open Source Electronics Pioneer Limor Fried on the DIY Revolution

Q&A: Open Source Electronics Pioneer Limor Fried on the DIY Revolution @ WIRED

Limor Fried is a maker’s maker. Sure, she’s got prime geek credentials: She earned an electrical engineering degree from MIT, invented several delightfully nerdy things to do with Altoid tins, and reverse-engineered the legendary Roland TB-303 synthesizer. Now she runs Adafruit Industries, a New York City company that makes open source electronics kits and components for the growing tide of DIYers who are inventing the future…

This is from the print article in this month’s WIRED! We featured it here on MAKE last week *AND* here’s the video that also appears on the iPad edition.

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