Adafruit · 338 products

Adafruit is a global company that manufactures high quality electronics. Its product line includes many devices for use in smart building systems, different types of sensors, controllers for smart electronics, extensions for popular Arduino boards, and much more. Adafruit also creates and distributes educational devices and systems friendly to children and budding electronics or robotics enthusiasts. In this way, the company tries to infect more people with the love of robotics and creating new technologies.

Adafruit: the power of a woman's passion

Adafruit was founded in 2005 by an MIT graduate with exceptional programming skills, Limor "Ladyada" Fried. Her goal was to create the best possible learning environment for electronics and to release products that would be useful to all different age groups with varying skill levels. Right now, the company employs more than a hundred people in central New York in an approximately 50,000-square-foot factory. Adafruit is constantly expanding its offerings, releasing only products that Limor has personally selected, tested and ultimately approved. A rather unusual and interesting note is that the company is a 100% woman-owned company.

Adafruit operations

Many of Adafruit's devices are manufactured in a factory in New York City. This is where all the work is done - from designing circuit board schematics to printing, soldering, testing, debugging and much more. Thanks to hard work and Adafruit's unique Pick and Place machine, the company has already produced over 3 million boards in just 3 years. In addition to manufacturing electronics, the company also hosts programs and videos - including "Ask a Engineer" and "Show & Tell," which you can watch every Wednesday night.

Adafruit - a company full of engineers

As founder and chief engineer of Adafruit, Limor Fried works with a team of talented engineers to create products together. The company has introduced its own educational board that supports MakeCode, CircuitPython (a language created by Adafruit) and works with Arduino. Most notably, the device requires no soldering, making it significantly easier for new robotics students to learn. Limor is the first female engineer to be featured on the cover of WIRED magazine. She was also awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur magazine. According to the Inc. 5000 "Fastest Growing Private Companies," Adafruit is currently ranked 11th among the top 20 manufacturing companies in the U.S. and first in New York City.

What Adafruit products can you find in the Botland store?

On the Botland website you will find, among many modules compatible with Arduino microcontrollers, kits with Circuit Playground Express module, Adafruit Circuit educational packages, smart clothing controllers, Bluetooth modules functioning as extensions of other devices, Adafruit Feather, overlays for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, GPS and WiFi modules, ADC converters, WAV players, color, light, humidity sensors, displays (including color and touch), heart rate monitors and many more - on our website you will find almost 300 types of various Adafruit products!