Adafruit, the kit-based electronics retailer and promoter of hobbyist engineering, is aiming to teach electronics to a younger demographic. So young that they're enlisting the help of puppets. "We'll ...

Recently, consumer electronics have tended to be more about closing things down then opening them up, but New York-based Adafruit is working to help reverse that trend, and to make it so that people ...

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 ...

In 1880, Giovanni Morelli, a sixty-four-year-old critic and historian from Italy, caused a sensation in the art world. In a book published under the pseudonym Ivan Lermolieff, an anagram of his own ...

That DIY Daft Punk helmet with the pulsing LED lights on Pinterest seems light-years away from those do-it-yourself ham radio ads in vintage Sears Roebuck catalogs, about as far as the iPhone 6 is ...

An add-on prototyping kit for Raspberry Pi is available from US-based hobbyists website Adafruit. An add-on prototyping kit for Raspberry Pi is available from US-based hobbyists website Adafruit.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlRjDKHGRg?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Adafruit, the DIY electronics website and marketplace, is espousing the ...

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Adafruit, the supplier of DIY electronics, kits, and open-source hardware that turn everyday objects into high-tech prototypes suitable for ...

Two years ago I posted 15 steps to starting your own electronic kit business, based on a presentation that Limor Fried, founder of the Adafruit electronics kit business gave at Maker Faire. In the ...

SUNSET PARK — ADAFRUIT INDUSTRIES, a 100% woman-owned tech manufacturing company, has signed a 10-year lease for a 41,531-square-foot space in Industry City’s Building 19, the Sunset Park complex ...

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 ...