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Ayah Bdeir on Design, Engineering and Activism

Ayah Bdeir on Design, Engineering and Activism

Founder's Journey from Lebanon to MIT Media Lab, and Why She Started littleBits

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May 10, 2022
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Today’s guest is Ayah Bdeir, a Lebanese engineer, interactive artist, social activist, and founder and inventor of littleBits. Pioneering in the open source hardware space, littleBits is the easy-to-use electronic building blocks used by millions of kids all over the world and was acquired by Sphero in 2019. (The prototype also holds a place in the perm…

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