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Meet Limor "ladyada" Fried at Adafruit Industries!

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    I started Adafruit Industries
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    back in my college dorm room at MIT
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    and now I've grown the company to 25 people
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    and we're here in downtown Manhatten.
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    My name is Limor Fried and I am founder
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    and lead engineer of Adafruit Industries.
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    My passion is teaching people electronics
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    and showing them just how fun engineering can be.
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    We design all sorts of electronic kits here
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    from DIY cell phone chargers to solar power systems
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    to bright and beautiful LED displays.
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    All kinds of projects so that
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    people can learn a bit of electronics
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    and see how much fun it is to build stuff on their own.
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    One of the really interesting things about
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    the way we do business here at Adafruit
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    is that not only do I design and manufacture electronics
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    but then I give away the recipe of how it's done.
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    And I do this because I think it's really important
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    for people to not only understand how we make stuff
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    but how they can make stuff themselves at home.
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    We do almost everything here at Adafruit
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    from designing the schematic and laying out the circuitboard
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    to placing these little teeny components
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    on the circuitboard and assembling them here,
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    to making kits, to writing the software
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    and the tutorials.
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    Everything necessary from beginning to end
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    to learn about electronics.
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    Here at Adafruit we have one of the
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    largest collections of electronics tutorials.
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    We have hundreds of tutorials online
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    available for free.
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    I give away all this information so that
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    people can learn, share and
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    build their own businesses from it.
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    We have 800 products in store
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    and we ship hundreds of orders a day
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    all around the globe.
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    We recently came up with a badging system
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    and the idea here is that we want to reward kids
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    for learning modern technological skills.
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    So teachers, parents and educators
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    can give a kid a badge when
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    they learn something like 3D printing
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    or building a robot.
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    We've been getting letters and photos
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    from around the world, from kids and their parents
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    showing off the cool projects they built
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    with Adafruit products and our tutorial system
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    and then the badge that they earn
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    once they've completed.
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    I also do a weekly live Internet video show
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    once a week on Saturday nights where hundreds of people
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    show up and ask me the engineer
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    any kinds of electronics engineering questions
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    and I answer them live on the Internet.
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    A lot of people find us because of our great tutorials
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    but what we're really known for is our great prices
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    our fast shipping and our excellent customer support.
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    I've found that the more we help people by
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    teaching them and showing them
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    how to be creative on their own
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    the more they rewarded us by being great customers
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    and also being part of our fun community.
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    Thanks for watching.
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    I can't wait to see what you build up next.
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    Now, time for me to get back to work
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    here at Adafruit.
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Title:
Meet Limor "ladyada" Fried at Adafruit Industries!
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Meet Limor "ladyada" Fried at Adafruit Industries!
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