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Spark 173 – February 19 & 22, 2012 “Maker Fun”

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Spark 173 – February 19 & 22, 2012 @ Spark. “Maker Fun” –

At the root of any DIY movement is creativity. And there’s an entire branch of the movement that loves getting their hands on anything that needs to be fixed, altered or improved – they’re called “makers”. Nora chats with Limor Fried the founder of Adafruit Industries, a kind of HQ for the electronics maker movement. They make and supply plans and parts and provide them open source online. (Runs 8:23)

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1 Comment

  1. Mark James
    February 20, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    CBC has pretty much all of its shows available as a podcast.

    The entire interview is here:

    http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2012/02/full-interview-limor-fried-on-open-source-hardware/

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