About Us
Adafruit was founded in 2005 by MIT hacker & engineer, Limor "Ladyada" Fried. Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels. Adafruit has grown to over 100+ employees in the heart of NYC with a 50,000+ sq ft. factory. Adafruit has expanded offerings to include tools, equipment and electronics that Limor personally selects, tests and approves before going in to the Adafruit store. Limor was the first female engineer on the cover of WIRED magazine, awarded Entrepreneur magazine's Entrepreneur of the year, and was on the cover of Make: Vol. 57. Ladyada was a founding member of the NYC Industrial Business Advisory Council. Adafruit is ranked #11 in the top 20 USA manufacturing companies and #1 in New York City by Inc. 5000 "fastest growing private companies". Adafruit is featured in Google's Economic Impact Report. Limor was named a WHITEHOUSE CHAMPION OF CHANGE in 2016. Adafruit is a 100% woman owned company. For press inquires, click here.
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More Adafruit Articles
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- HACKSPACE - LADYADA
- What’s Happening in the Maker Movement?
- MAKERS!
- How Computers Work
- Limor Fried: building electronic dreams
- Makezine: Inside Adafruit, the Open-Source Manufacturing Maker Champions
- Limor Fried, AC2SN inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
- Ladyada's Keynote Speech at !!Con 2017 - 'We Are What We Celebrate: The Joy, Excitement, and Surprise of Who is Making Things'
- Ladyada/Adafruit on the cover of Make: Vol. 57
- Limor Fried in The Female Lead, Icon Series
- Adafruit teams up with Microsoft Edu
- Google’s Small Business Community Spotlights Adafruit for Women's History Month
- Adafruit on WNYC: "100,000 New Jobs in New York City?"
- StartupNation: Adafruit Industries Uses Google Tools to Inspire
- Microsoft Blog: Adafruit founder and engineer Limor Fried: ‘If ‘things’ could talk, what would they say?’
- Adafruit listed in Crain's New York fastest-growing companies 2016
- Limor "ladyada" Fried - 5 women who are changing the IOT world
- Adafruit featured in Making the Maker Movement from the White House
- Adafruit featured for New York in Google's Economic Impact Report
- Adafruit in the Export Compliance Journal
- Adafruit in BUST
- Adafruit in the New Yorker
- Adafruit in WSJ
- Ladyada - Young Global Leader
- An Interview with Limor Fried
- Adafruit Helps Businesses
- NPR - Woman Digital Thinkers
- Made with code - Limor Fried
- Meet The Maker - Ladyada
- Interview with Ladyada!
- Open Source Award Winner
- New York Times Business Daily
- MIT - Meet the maker
- IEEE Profile: Limor Fried
- Hardware Guru Limor Fried
- Future of Wearable Technology
- TechCrunch Tours Adafruit
- Obama's Fireside Hangout
- NYC Industrial Business Council
- Entrepeneur 100 Brilliant Companies
- CBC's Spark
- New York Times (Flora)
- Business Week
- Forbes
- The Verge
- Creativity / Ad Age
- NY Times Magazine
- WIRED Issue 19.04
- PBS
- New York Times (Arduino)
- EFF Pioneer Award
- NY Times (Kinect)
- Open Hardware Summit
- Engadget Show
- Rocketboom
- MIT Technology Review
- WIRED Issue 16.11
- CNet
- New York Times
- Time Out New York
- Popular Science
- Lifehacker
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