Nerd Girl Power!

Limor Fried - Adafruit (by EntrepreneurOnline)

Entrepreneur of 2012-Limor Fried notes that once upon a time, it might have seemed strange for a person to spend an afternoon building something like the MintyBoost, a portable USB mobile-device charger assembled from an Altoids tin and bits of electronic hardware. But if the 50,000 MintyBoost kits sold so far by Fried’s company, Adafruit Industries, are any indication, the world is now a different sort of place.

Recognizable by her signature vivid-pink locks, Fried (or Ladyada, as she is known on the internet) is one of the dominant forces behind the maker movement—a legion of do-it-yourself-minded folks who create cool things by tweaking everyday technology.

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