Adafruit wants to inspire the engineers of tomorrow, and it's enlisting a group of puppets to help out. Early next year, the electronics kit retailer will debut an online series called Circuit Playground , which stars characters like Cappy the Capacitor, Hans the 555 Timer Chip, and a host of other tech-savvy, kid-friendly puppets. Each show will be hosted by Adafruit Industries founder Limor Fried, who says the series drew inspiration from the likes of Jim Henson and Fred Rogers.
Each episode will have "a story, a song and something to do," Fried told Wired. "We’ll have live feeds in our factory on how things are made. It’s a little Elmo for engineering, a little Mr. Rogers for resistors and a little Sesame Street for Circuits." The...
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