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Adafruit’s Ringly Teardown. Or, What $5.1 Million Buys You

January 28, 2015 By Dan Rosenbaum

RinglyWe’re suckers for a good teardown, so when the fine folks at Adafruit emerged from the New York snowstorm with a deconstruction of Ringly, we paid attention. Maybe we wouldn’t have been so interested if Ringly hadn’t closed that big funding round, but it did and we are.

And a teardown that requires the use of a hammer, no matter how gently wielded? Sign us up.

Last updated by Dan Rosenbaum on February 1, 2017.

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