Limor Fried

Limor Fried ( " Ladyada " ) is an American engineer of electrical engineering and hacker, known as the founder of the company Adafruit Industries which deals with electronic hobby. She is influential in the open source hardware community and developed the MintyBoost, a battery-powered charger for USB chargeable mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone. Your nickname is a tribute to the British mathematician Ada Lovelace.

Biography

Fried got her Master of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founded it with their products specifically designed for their own company. It was the Electronic Frontier Foundation honored in 2009 for the Pioneer Award for her work in the open source hardware community. Two years later she got from the Fast Company the price of the most influential women in technology (" Most Influential Women in Technology "). About their products has been repeatedly reported in Wired magazine MAKE Magazine and technology.

Products

The company Adafruit donated $ 1,000 for the development of open source drivers for Microsoft's 3D input hardware Kinect for XBox 360 After Microsoft threatened with legal action, increased Adafruit offering another 2000 dollars. The programmer Hector Martin secured just one week after the Kinect launch the prize money.

Among the products developed by their addition to the MintyBoost chargers are mainly small kits, eg for the Arduino platform and readers for SIM cards. Some awareness gained their products in Germany by the U.S. hacker and inventor of the Universal Remote Control TV -B -Gone Mitch Altman, who introduced the jointly developed with Fried DIY version of its TV-B -Gone at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin in 2008.

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