Limor fried biography meaning

American electrical engineer

Limor Fried is an American electrical engineer and owner of the electronics hobbyist company Adafruit Industries. She is influential in the open-source hardwarecommunity, having participated in the first Open Source Hardware Summit and the drafting of the Open Source Hardware definition, and is known by her monikerladyada, an homage to Lady Ada Lovelace.

Career and recognition

Fried studied at MIT, earning a BS in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) in 2003 and a Master of Engineering in EECS in 2005. For part of the qualification she created a project called Social Defense Mechanisms: Tools for Reclaiming Our Personal Space.

Following the concept of critical design she prototyped glasses that darken when a television is in view, and a low-power RF jammer that prevents cell phones from operating in a user's personal space.^[2][3]

Fried was an Eyebeam fellow from 2005–2006.^[4][