We Are What We Celebrate: The Joy, Excitement, and Surprise of Who is Making Things...
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Company Adafruit is profitable, 100% woman-owned, and makes electronics in a 50,000+ sq ft NYC factory with pick-and-place machines and a 270°C reflow oven. Weekly show-and-tell runs eight years with about 6–10 guests live, spawning projects like FadeCandy-driven LED gowns for Zac Posen, a DIY Safecast Geiger counter made from Arduino parts, wearable biofeedback shirts and wireless concrete-temperature sensors using Feather-class radios — most demos work and many scale into real products.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:09Community show-and-tell joy
- 7:24Textile art meets wearables
- 9:12Vintage notebook electronics
- 12:45Inspiring next engineers
- 17:01LED art open-source
- 20:16Wearable tech education
- 23:20Shenzhen makers innovation
- 25:12Wireless sensors construction
- 27:56Cosplay electronics craft
- 29:59Tech in creative communities
- 31:07Hobbies to electronics
- 33:00Citizen science radiation
- 35:05Assistive tech innovation
- 40:45Open-source health solutions
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