{"id":14986,"date":"2015-10-02T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14986"},"modified":"2015-10-02T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:08:59","slug":"adafruit-industries-an-amazing-resource-for-electronics-experimenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/adafruit-industries-an-amazing-resource-for-electronics-experimenters\/","title":{"rendered":"Adafruit Industries: an amazing resource for electronics experimenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Adafruit_logo-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14987\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Adafruit_logo-3.png\" alt=\"Adafruit_logo (3)\" width=\"713\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Adafruit_logo-3.png 713w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Adafruit_logo-3-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Richard Langley, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/tass-an-arduino-based-antenna-switch\/\">In a recent blog posting<\/a>, you mentioned the use of Arduinos in the radio hobby. Those of us who have experimented with Arduinos (and Raspberry Pis, etc.) likely have come across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adafruit Industries<\/a> when looking for hardware bits and pieces to use in our maker activities.<\/p>\n<p>There is a great article on Limor Fried and her company in the latest issue of the IEEE news magazine &#8220;The Institute&#8221; and it&#8217;s also available on line:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theinstitute.ieee.org\/technology-focus\/technology-topic\/how-diy-electronics-startup-adafruit-industries-became-a-multimillion-dollar-company\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/theinstitute.ieee.org\/technology-focus\/technology-topic\/how-diy-electronics-startup-adafruit-industries-became-a-multimillion-dollar-company<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a short video up on the Web where Fried explains the company&#8217;s purpose and philosophy:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theinstitute.ieee.org\/video\/technology-focus\/technology-topic\/inside-adafruit-industries\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/theinstitute.ieee.org\/video\/technology-focus\/technology-topic\/inside-adafruit-industries<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Richard then added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=20pMUCnX4hA\" target=\"_blank\">[Here is a] cute Adafruit video<\/a> introducing the concept of (radio) frequency to kids:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/20pMUCnX4hA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Very cool!<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0Thanks so much, Richard, for sharing this.\u00a0Adafruit looks like not only a true community player, but a comprehensive source for the electronics experimenter! My daughters\u00a0<em>love<\/em> the Adafruit video; now to dig up all of the previous episodes!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to learn more about\u00a0Arduinos and my RaspberryPi this winter, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ll keep Adafruit bookmarked<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, writes: In a recent blog posting, you mentioned the use of Arduinos in the radio hobby. Those of us who have experimented with Arduinos (and Raspberry Pis, etc.) likely have come across Adafruit Industries when looking for hardware bits and pieces to use in our maker activities. There is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[627,3],"tags":[4267,4266,4209,2627],"class_list":["post-14986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","tag-adafruit","tag-arduino","tag-make","tag-raspberry-pi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3TI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24305,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/raspberry-pi-wifi-radio-with-touch-screen\/","url_meta":{"origin":14986,"position":0},"title":"Raspberry Pi WiFi Radio with touch screen","author":"Thomas","date":"March 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of us who like to tinker with the Raspberry Pi, this looks like a fun weekend project. 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