“Open source hardware is our best shot at getting more people involved in learning and sharing electronics.”
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Fried founded Adafruit Industries, an open-source hardware company she still runs as chief engineer, and was the first female engineer on the cover of WIRED. She is the defining figure of the open-source hardware movement.
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