NeoPixel is Adafruit's brand of individually addressable red-green-blue ( RGB) LED.
Mini NeoPixels with comparison to a Canadian quarter In 2017, Adafruit Industries best selling product was the Circuit Playground Express NeoPixel They, like many Adafruit products, are circular in shape for ease of use in education and wearable electronics projects, along with the FLORA and Gemma, the company's wearable electronics development platforms. In 2016, the company released the Circuit Playground, a board with an Atmel ATmega32u4 microcontroller and a variety of sensors, followed in 2017 by the more powerful Atmel SAMD21 based Circuit Playground Express. In addition to distributing third-party components and boards such as the Raspberry Pi, Adafruit develops and sells its own development boards for educational and hobbyist purposes. The company's goal is to get more people involved in technology, science and engineering. The name Adafruit comes from Fried's online moniker "Ladyada", itself a homage to computer science pioneer Ada Lovelace. The company had $22 million in revenue in 2013 and $33 million in 2014. This reward was increased to $2,000 and then $3,000 following Microsoft's concerns about tampering. In 2010, Adafruit offered a US$1,000 (equivalent to $1,187 in 2020) reward for whoever could hack Microsoft's Kinect to make its motion sensing capabilities available for use for other projects.
She later moved to New York City and established Adafruit Industries. Limor Fried, then a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began selling electronic kits on her website from her own designs in 2005. 5.5 Wearable Electronics with Becky Stern.5.3 3D Hangouts with Noe and Pedro Ruiz.