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"Ms. Fried, who runs a hardware design business from her apartment, also laser-etches customized designs into iPods and laptops for about $30 each. From her Web site, www.adafruit.com, she sells plans and kits for electronic devices. They include kits for a universal remote control ($19.50) — to turn off any television in your vicinity — and a set of lights for bicycle spokes that spell out words and draw symbols as you ride ($37.50). | "Ms. Fried, who runs a hardware design business from her apartment, also laser-etches customized designs into iPods and laptops for about $30 each. From her Web site, www.adafruit.com, she sells plans and kits for electronic devices. They include kits for a universal remote control ($19.50) — to turn off any television in your vicinity — and a set of lights for bicycle spokes that spell out words and draw symbols as you ride ($37.50). | ||
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Ms. Fried uses the tools of industrial rapid prototyping, including lasers and premade electronic circuitry. But new services are also making such tools available to creative people who could not otherwise afford them." | Ms. Fried uses the tools of industrial rapid prototyping, including lasers and premade electronic circuitry. But new services are also making such tools available to creative people who could not otherwise afford them." | ||
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/technology/personaltech/15basics.html) | (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/technology/personaltech/15basics.html) | ||
'''2. By Dominic Basulto:''' | |||
"This was the year that coding and hacking went mainstream. It was a time when some of the most interesting and often quirky startups being launched around concepts such as open source and crowdsourcing began to find their way onto the cover of magazines. Companies such as Adafruit Industries, are at the forefront of helping tens of thousands of tech hobbyists create objects that have never before existed. | |||
Limor "Ladyada" Fried, founder and CEO of Adafruit Industries.That, in fact, is perhaps why you’ve never heard of Adafruit Industries. Unlike a traditional tech company — companies such as Apple, Samsung or Microsoft — Adafruit does not manufacture, design or sell what many would consider a mainstream consumer gadget. Instead, the company sells electronic kits that help people assemble their own products. And when the company does sell an item, it comes with an open-source license, meaning that you’re basically free to hack it apart and sell a better one yourself. That’s an extremely powerful idea. | |||
Adafruit also has an intensely loyal community of people who, well, make things. They tinker. They hack. They ask questions like, “Wouldn’t it be cool if there were a way to...?” The best-selling item at Adafruit is something called a Minty Boost, which is basically a hacked-together power source for your smart phone that fits into an Altoids case and runs on a pair of AA batteries." | |||
9http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/the-ripening-of-adafruit-and-the-maker-movement/2012/12/20/d18f0ec8-4aad-11e2-8758-b64a2997a921_blog.html) | |||
=More Information= | =More Information= | ||
Other examples: | * http://forums.adafruit.com/ | ||
* Other examples: | |||
#[[Ponoko]] | #[[Ponoko]] | ||
#[[Chumby]] | #[[Chumby]] | ||
See the directory at [[Product Hacking]] | * See the [[Open Hardware]] directory at [[Product Hacking]] | ||
Revision as of 00:53, 22 December 2012
= Open Source Hardware company
URL = http://www.adafruit.com/
Description
1.
"Ms. Fried, who runs a hardware design business from her apartment, also laser-etches customized designs into iPods and laptops for about $30 each. From her Web site, www.adafruit.com, she sells plans and kits for electronic devices. They include kits for a universal remote control ($19.50) — to turn off any television in your vicinity — and a set of lights for bicycle spokes that spell out words and draw symbols as you ride ($37.50).
Ms. Fried uses the tools of industrial rapid prototyping, including lasers and premade electronic circuitry. But new services are also making such tools available to creative people who could not otherwise afford them." (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/technology/personaltech/15basics.html)
2. By Dominic Basulto:
"This was the year that coding and hacking went mainstream. It was a time when some of the most interesting and often quirky startups being launched around concepts such as open source and crowdsourcing began to find their way onto the cover of magazines. Companies such as Adafruit Industries, are at the forefront of helping tens of thousands of tech hobbyists create objects that have never before existed.
Limor "Ladyada" Fried, founder and CEO of Adafruit Industries.That, in fact, is perhaps why you’ve never heard of Adafruit Industries. Unlike a traditional tech company — companies such as Apple, Samsung or Microsoft — Adafruit does not manufacture, design or sell what many would consider a mainstream consumer gadget. Instead, the company sells electronic kits that help people assemble their own products. And when the company does sell an item, it comes with an open-source license, meaning that you’re basically free to hack it apart and sell a better one yourself. That’s an extremely powerful idea.
Adafruit also has an intensely loyal community of people who, well, make things. They tinker. They hack. They ask questions like, “Wouldn’t it be cool if there were a way to...?” The best-selling item at Adafruit is something called a Minty Boost, which is basically a hacked-together power source for your smart phone that fits into an Altoids case and runs on a pair of AA batteries." 9http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/the-ripening-of-adafruit-and-the-maker-movement/2012/12/20/d18f0ec8-4aad-11e2-8758-b64a2997a921_blog.html)
More Information
- Other examples:
- See the Open Hardware directory at Product Hacking