Limor Fried

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Limor Fried

Limor Fried (* 1979 ) is an American engineer of electrical engineering and hacker . She became known as the founder of the company Adafruit Industries, which deals with hobby electronics . Her nickname " ladyada ", like the company name, pays homage to the British mathematician Ada Lovelace .

Fried is influential in the open source hardware community and developed the MintyBoost , a battery-operated charger for devices such as smartphones that can be charged via USB .

biography

Fried received her Masters of Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founded her company Adafruit with her specially developed products. She received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award in 2009 for her work in the open source hardware community. Two years later, the Fast Company gave her the Most Influential Women in Technology award . MAKE magazine and technology magazine Wired reported on their products several times .

Products

Adafruit offered $ 1,000 in prize money for developing open source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect 3D input hardware for the Xbox 360 . After Microsoft threatened legal action, Adafruit increased the offer to $ 3,000. The programmer Hector Martin secured the prize money just a week after the Kinect went on sale.

In addition to the MintyBoost chargers, the products she has developed include small kits, e.g. B. for the Arduino platform and readers for SIM cards . Their products also achieved a certain degree of popularity in Germany through the US hacker and inventor of the universal remote control TV-B-Gone Mitch Altman, who presented the self-made version of his TV-B-Gone developed together with Fried at the Chaos Communication Congress 2008 in Berlin.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b David Zax: 2011 influentual most women in technology - Limor Fried, Founder, Adafruit Industries ( Memento of 12 October 2012 at the Internet Archive ) site Fast Company , last accessed on November 3, 2011
  2. ↑ Limor Fried: Minty Boost - Small battery-powered USB charger , website ladyada, last accessed on November 3, 2011
  3. ↑ a b Hardware Hacker, E-Voting Investigator, and Public Domain Advocate Win Pioneer Awards , last accessed on November 3, 2011
  4. ↑ Phillip Torrone: Make: Pioneer - Limor “Ladyada” Fried On WIRED Cover ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Makezine Blog website, last accessed November 3, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.makezine.com
  5. ↑ John Tozzi, Adafruit Targets Tinkerers With 'Open-Source' Electronics Kits , Bloomberg website , last accessed November 3, 2011
  6. ↑ Adafruit: $ 3,000 for Open Kinect . May 16, 2017 ( adafruit.com [accessed May 28, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Hartmut Gieselmann: Open source driver for Kinect published , website heise online, last accessed on November 3, 2011.
  8. ↑ a b Limor Fried: TV-B-Gone Kit - Make every day a “TV-free” day! , Ladyada website, last accessed November 3, 2011
  9. ^ TV-B-Gone , website, last accessed November 3, 2011
  10. ↑ Workshops - EveryDay , Wiki, last accessed the Chaos Communication Congress 2008 3 November 2011
personal data
SURNAME Fried, Limor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ladyada
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer and hacker
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century