Making wearable computers? A booster for your iPhone made out of a mint box? It doesn't get more DIY than this. Limor Fried is the founder an lead engineer at Adafruit Industries. She's one of the leading forces behind the maker movement - people who like to alter technology to better it, or make electronics at home from scratch. And she's particularly interested in making hardware that is open source.

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