{"id":2588,"date":"2025-04-25T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:09:54","slug":"ayah-bdeir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/ayah-bdeir","title":{"rendered":"Ayah Bdeir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/AyahBdeir.jpg\" alt=\"Ayah Bdeir\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebits.cc\">littleBits<\/a> is a hardware company that aims to put the power of electronics in everyone&#8217;s hands. The company sells electronic modules that snap together with magnets, making them accessible to both adults and children. Ayah earned a degree in computer engineering from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon and has a Masters from the MIT Media Lab. She is also an interactive artist.<\/p>\n<p>Ayah speaks with Jessica Harris about how she built littleBits, from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"https:\/\/fromscratchradio.com\/audio\/AyahBdeir-FromScratch-042525.mp3\">Listen to the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>littleBits is a hardware company that aims to put the power of electronics in everyone&#8217;s hands. The company sells electronic modules that snap together with magnets, making them accessible to both adults and children. Ayah earned a degree in computer engineering from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon and has a Masters from the MIT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}