Limor Fried
Founder of Adafruit
Open hardware as a business that actually works
Rating
88Impact score
Domains
Open hardwareElectronics educationManufacturing
Scouting report
Founded Adafruit from an MIT dorm room and built it into a substantial manufacturer that publishes its schematics, board files and firmware openly, alongside thousands of free tutorials. Leads CircuitPython, which put a REPL on microcontrollers and made embedded programming approachable. Proved open hardware can be a real company rather than a gesture.
Curator’s note
The openness score is 99 because the schematics ship with the product.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Limor Fried by TechCrunch, licensed CC BY 2.0.
Sources
- 01Limor Fried en.wikipedia.org
- 02CircuitPython circuitpython.org