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Comment on Brooklyn electronics company Adafruit hit with surprise $36K tariff bill: "pay in one week"

Adafruit makes some seriously useful PCBs.
If you have ever tinkered, you likely have some sort of requirement that needs a little more tech to make work. Afafruit cover that gap, and all their stuff is open source.
A genuinely good US tech company.

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randomblock1@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Not only that, but they make a LOT of libraries that make using those sensors WAY easier. Arduino, CircuitPython, and more. And lots of well-written tutorials! They care, and it shows. They don’t deserve these tariffs…

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MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Isn’t Adafruit British in origin?

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- ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  No, it’s based in New York.
  
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  - MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    OH! I’m thinking of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is in Britain.
    
    I guess I confused them in my head since I got in to both around the same time so many years ago and seldom think about origins of corps…
    
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