Recently, consumer electronics have tended to be more about closing things down then opening them up, but New York-based Adafruit is working to help reverse that trend, and to make it so that people ...

Adafruit, the kit-based electronics retailer and promoter of hobbyist engineering, is aiming to teach electronics to a younger demographic. So young that they're enlisting the help of puppets. "We'll ...

The cover of Time as Person of the Year can’t be far away for Limor Fried. As the founder of one of the most popular open source hardware companies, inventor, maker, and visionary Ms. Fried has to be ...

Thanks to Adafruit for flagging this one: a home-built (physical) virtual pet, using a Raspberry Pi. The Gadget Master Supreme is Will Cogley and as well as building the manoeuvrable device he is also ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlRjDKHGRg?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Adafruit, the DIY electronics website and marketplace, is espousing the ...

That DIY Daft Punk helmet with the pulsing LED lights on Pinterest seems light-years away from those do-it-yourself ham radio ads in vintage Sears Roebuck catalogs, about as far as the iPhone 6 is ...

In 1880, Giovanni Morelli, a sixty-four-year-old critic and historian from Italy, caused a sensation in the art world. In a book published under the pseudonym Ivan Lermolieff, an anagram of his own ...

It’s not everyday that we review software around here, but the folks at Adafruit recently put together an iOS app that I figured might be of interest. Their iPad/iPhone compatible application is ...

Mouser Electronics’ distribution deal with Adafruit is intriguing. Adafruit is a supplier to the maker community specialising is open-source hardware and software. Its main business is as a ...

Electronics resource and online component shop Adafruit has this week unveiled a new piece of hardware that will soon be arriving in store, that has been designed to provide an easy way to learn more ...

If you’re a DIY electronics geek, Adafruit should be one of your favorite playgrounds. The open source hardware maker’s site offers a plethora of kits, parts, plans, and other electronic miscellany, ...

SUNSET PARK — ADAFRUIT INDUSTRIES, a 100% woman-owned tech manufacturing company, has signed a 10-year lease for a 41,531-square-foot space in Industry City’s Building 19, the Sunset Park complex ...