{"id":24913,"date":"2015-09-21T20:22:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=24913"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:57:53","slug":"limor-fried-founder-of-adafruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/limor-fried-founder-of-adafruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Limor Fried, Founder of Adafruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limor Fried is an MIT engineer and the\u00a0founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\" target=\"_blank\">Adafruit<\/a>, a one-stop shop for\u00a0makers to buy electronics kits and components, and learn and share ideas related to electronics prototyping. Limor&#8217;s picks will be especially useful for anyone interested in electronics prototyping or looking to learn more about the field.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/224960894&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Podcast on iTunes<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">RSS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1cgok71irmUhaaq5kc1sG8HVu0wNR-K7DyNPHDmEByHs\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Transcript<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/7810\/1782803\/224960894-cool-tools-38-limor-fried-founder-of-adafruit-industries.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/archives\/tag\/cool-tools-show\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Show Notes:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hmd-smt.com\/static\/uploads\/content\/small\/201403131408385627.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2013\/04\/03\/samsung-techwin-smt-sm482-adafruits-new-pick-and-place-machine-has-arrived\/\">Samsung SM482<\/a>\u00a0Prices vary<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re awesome machines. This is a 6-spindle pick and place chip mounter. It&#8217;s very flexible. It can place components as small as 0201s, which are basically like dust, up to 64&#215;64 millimeter parts, which are big chunky modules or chips. It can kind of do it all and it&#8217;s very, very fast. It&#8217;s got flying vision. The software&#8217;s good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samsungsmt.com\/images\/2014\/02\/SM481_F.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2014\/05\/12\/samsung-sm481-arrived-today-almost-doubling-our-manufacturing-capabilities-and-more-makerbusiness-manufacturing\/\">Samsung 481<\/a> Prices vary<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though the number is one less than the 482, it&#8217;s actually a much better machine. It has 10 nozzles, so right off the bat it&#8217;s at least 60%, 70% faster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.speedlinetech.com\/sites\/default\/files\/products\/mpmelit-1-slide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2013\/12\/18\/what-do-you-give-the-open-source-hardware-girl-engineer-who-has-everything-and-gives-it-all-away-a-speedline-momentum-elite-stencil-printer\/\">Speedline Momentum Elite<\/a> Prices vary<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting a good stencil printer is key. We used to stencil by hand,\u00a0literally. We used a stencil printer that you would use for t-shirts. But after you get to fine pitch components, you can&#8217;t do that anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.digikey.com\/photos\/Metcal%20Photos\/MX-500S-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00HLUOFLC\/cooltools-20\">Metcal 500 Soldering Station<\/a> $1262<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing that&#8217;s nice about the MetCal is that it&#8217;s\u00a0a reliable and dependable machine that&#8217;s very fast. There&#8217;s a wide selection of tips that you can use and you can quick change them. That&#8217;s important&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/adafruit_385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOXWHQhEVEI5Jqf18TQRr5Hu\">Circuit Playground<\/a>\u00a0Free<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the longest running electronics puppet show because it&#8217;s the only electronics puppet show. They take quite a bit of effort to do. I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve done puppeteering but it&#8217;s a lot harder than it looks. Sesame street makes it look easy. It&#8217;s actually really, really hard to make a puppet seem fun and alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/system\/guides\/images\/000\/000\/988\/medium800\/hero_pigrrl_purple_smaller.jpeg?1430688768\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/products\/2355\" target=\"_blank\">Pigrrl<\/a>\u00a0$100<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;There no soldering required, you just plug it in then you&#8217;re ready to go. We sell it fully assembled now.\u00a0It basically adds a little display to your Raspberry Pi.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/system\/assets\/assets\/000\/002\/027\/medium800\/tools_Toolkit.jpg?1396778336\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/product\/136\">Lady Ada Toolkit<\/a>\u00a0$100<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lady Ada tool kit is in the store and is very popular. It has one of every tool that you need and it will last you quite a while. It&#8217;s very good quality stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2015\/09\/soldering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2015\/09\/soldering-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"soldering\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2015\/09\/soldering-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2015\/09\/soldering-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2015\/09\/soldering.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00ANZRT4M\/cooltools-20\" target=\"_blank\">FX888\u00a0Soldering Iron<\/a> $92<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever I&#8217;m not doing fine pitch work, this is the soldering iron I use for day-to-day use. It heats up very fast. It looks adorable. 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