While still weary from our TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, The Hackaday crew had a chance we couldn’t pass up: A tour of Adafruit Industries. Adafruit isn’t open to the public, so an opportunity to see ...

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 ...

When it comes to building a business, entrepreneurs often don’t play by the rules -- they write their own. For Limor Fried, founder of Adafruit Industries, this happened at an early age. Bored by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why She’s a MAKER: She designs electronics, runs a business, has millions of followers on social media and launched that other ...

Retailer SparkFun Electronics last month said it would no longer do business with electronics kit-maker Adafruit Industries, citing violations of SparkFun's Code of Conduct during online interactions.

Back in 2005, MIT engineering graduate student Limor Fried was procrastinating hard on finishing the "busy work" of her final thesis by building her own portable music player. From scratch. Her ...

There’s a long-held notion that China should be the go-to place for those in need of inexpensive manufactured products, but some prominent makers don’t buy it. Our own John Biggs sat down with ...

Since we started Makers I’ve made it a priority to try to visit Adafruit Industries, the amazing Manhattan-based electronics shop run by Limor Fried. Fried started her company out of her dorm room at ...

Why She’s a MAKER: She designs electronics, runs a business, has millions of followers on social media and launched that other makers movement—the one focused on building stuff. Limor Fried earned a ...

Editor's Note: Each year, we honor a top entrepreneur in our annual Entrepreneur contest. Meet the finalists in the running for Entrepreneur of 2012. Here, a look at Limor Fried, founder of Adafruit ...