Limor Fried is the founder and CEO of Adafruit Industries, a maker of DIY open source engineering and electronics kits, accessible for consumers of any age or skillset. Adafruit kit users can create ...

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 ...

We often give short shrift to hardware at Disrupt mostly because investors are afraid to look at companies that can’t pivot without trashing 30 days of inventory. No longer. Limor Fried AKA Ladyada ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Limor Fried notes that once upon a time, it might have seemed strange for a person to spend an afternoon building something like the ...

When Limor “Ladyada” Fried founded Adafruit a decade ago, she was just a bored college student. While creating small electronics during what she described as “deep procrastination” on her MIT thesis, ...

Indie hardware hacker and engineer Limor "Ladyada" Fried was named today as Entrepreneur Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year. Fried's company has humble beginnings and has grown into a sprawling ...

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 ...