Immediately is Worldwide Ladies’s Day! March eighth, 2025, we take time to honor girls, their contributions, and their affect on the world. Right here at Hackster, we have curated a roundup of our favourite makers and engineers in our group.
Alex Glow
Alex Glow, a passionate advocate for moral tech and open supply innovation, has made a profound affect on the maker group by way of her work at Hackster previously decade. As a maker and storyteller, she conjures up and empowers creators worldwide by sharing hands-on information and championing inclusivity in {hardware} growth. Her flagship interview collection Hackster Café documented 200 episodes of maker journey. She helped take Hackster on a hackathon tour of the USA – the well-known DeLorean venture. She created Archimedes the owl and helped kick off the fast-growing companion bots motion; designed and produced open supply circuit boards. Preserve following all her awesomeness at Hackster!
Anouk Wipprecht
Dutch hi-tech dressmaker and innovator Anouk Wipprecht has set the stage for futuristic clothes. She’s well-known for her work combining style with engineering, science, and interplay/consumer expertise design. Her clothes characteristic sensors, robotics, and AI for wearer-environment interactivity. Wipprecht’s Spider Gown options sensors and robotic arms that reply to the wearer’s respiration charges and the nearness of individuals. If it detects an invasion of private house, the arms lengthen outward in protection. Her designs have techniques that method AI, with the human physique performing because the host. Try Wipprecht’s’s Hackster profile right here, her kitty ear wearable tutorial is one among our all-time favorites.
Joan Horvath
For 16 years, American aeronautical engineer Joan Horvath labored for NASA’s JPL. Throughout her time there, she targeted on know-how switch, flight operations, and analysis, helping with numerous initiatives, together with TOPEX/Poseidon. Horvath later established Takeoff Applied sciences earlier than co-founding Nonscriptum, concentrating on 3D printing and maker applied sciences with accomplice Wealthy Cameron. Since 2000, Horvath has judged FIRST robotics competitions. We love her books on calculus, trigonometry, and geometry from Make:. Be sure you take a look at all of their LinkedIn studying programs on additive manufacturing right here.
Kelly Heaton
An revolutionary artist-engineer, Kelly Heaton combines visible artwork with electrical engineering to create fascinating initiatives. Whereas attending Yale and MIT, Heaton accomplished her grasp’s thesis by creating “bodily pixels,” releasing laptop graphics from flat screens. She additionally labored at Roche Diagnostics and co-authored patents for steady glucose knowledge visualization. Moreover, she designed life-like circuits with analog elements that replicated the sound of birdsong, showcasing the inventive potentialities of steady waveforms in electronics. She serves as an adjunct professor of digital artwork at NYU’s Tandon Faculty of Engineering/IDM.
Kitty Yeung
Versatile engineer Kitty Yeung obtained her utilized physics PhD from Harvard. At the moment, Yeung is the CEO and Co-founder of Put on It — an AI firm that democratizes style and slashes waste. Put on It makes use of AI, permitting anybody to put on clothes nearly. She labored for Microsoft as a senior quantum architect, and her function concerned producing quantum computing studying supplies and increasing the developer group. When working for Intel as a Analysis Scientist, Yeung labored on silicon photonics and made contributions to Intel’s 100G Optical Transceivers. As well as, she focuses on style tech and based a STEAM style model known as Artwork by Physicist. Yeung collaborated with Hackster in internet hosting the Techfashion Contest.
Helen Leigh
Helen Leigh is the pinnacle of group at Crowd Provide. She is a hacker and created MINI.MU glove — a wearable instrument that permits youngsters to find out about electronics and music. She authored “The Artful Child’s Information to DIY Electronics” and continues creating DIY musical devices.
Carlotta Berry
Carlotta Berry serves as a professor of Electrical and Pc Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Expertise. She developed the Robotics for the Streets initiative to make free open supply {hardware} and software program accessible for cell robotics training. Berry and her college students created the Flower∞Bots collection, which incorporates the Lily∞bot, Daisy∞Bot, and Rosie∞Bot. In 2022, she was named an Open Supply {Hardware} Trailblazer Fellow and gained the 2023 IEEE Undergraduate Educating Award.
AnnMarie Thomas
Mechanical engineer AnnMarie Thomas based the Playful Studying Lab on the College of St. Thomas. She created Squishy Circuits — electronics with conductive and insulating dough — at this lab, permitting youngsters to really feel extra engaged in electronics. She is an knowledgeable in human-robot interplay, instructional cell robotics, and engineering pedagogy. Thomas wrote “Making Makers: Youngsters, Instruments, and the Way forward for Innovation” and gained the 2020 LEGO Prize for her playful studying contributions. She additionally co-founded OK GO Sandbox, selling STEM training by way of inventive initiatives. She’s now working with the unimaginable OceanX group on ocean training!
Claire Danielle Cassidy
Claire Cassidy is a inventive technologist and open supply advocate. She works on distinctive LEDs, laser-cut jewellery, and open {hardware} initiatives. She forges “U Glow” initiative within the welcoming sandbox of Oregon’s Regional Burning Man Occasion, SOAK. The initiative first emerged as a dynamic theme camp and has since transcended boundaries, evolving into in style annual expertise and a trailblazing on-line information hub, and made a big mark on it’s native Portland Oregon maker and artist communities to foster technical pursuits in “non-technical” and historically marginalized teams.
Christina Cyr
Christina Cyr invented the Cyrcle Cellphone — winner of the CES 2023 Innovation Award. She’s used Altium, Eagle, and Fusion 360 to design circuit boards and taught over 200 folks the right way to construct their telephones by way of workshops and occasions, like Hackaday SuperCon. As well as, Cyr has designed IoT gadgets for Cambridge Cellular Telematics, specializing in PCB design for RF sign (2G, 3G, 4G, LTE, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth) communication gadgets.
Kathy Giori
Electrical engineer and know-how chief Kathy Giori is the Tricyrcycle CEO — an organization devoted to reasonably priced privateness know-how. She’s additionally MicroBlocks’ Head of World Partnerships and Outreach. As well as, she was concerned with three startups and labored for Arduino, Mozilla, ZEDEDA, SRI Worldwide, and Qualcomm. Giori created IoT options, emphasizing open supply {hardware} and software program. She additionally volunteers as a mentor for the TechWomen program and organizes IoT and bodily computing workshops to advertise STEM training.
Jen Fox
Engineer and educator Jen Fox based FoxBot Industries, reworking STEM training with interactive, arts-based approaches. She has beforehand developed instructional applied sciences, designed customized kid-safe maker areas, and created project-driven STEM applications. Fox additionally labored on darkish matter detection analysis and renewable power tech initiatives. She works for Microsoft as a principal technical program supervisor, overseeing human-AI interplay initiatives throughout the corporate. She focuses on multimodality AI/agentic UI/UX and automation tooling. Fox wrote a project-based intro to electronics e-book known as “Starting Breadboarding.” Her analysis expands into embedded techniques, IoT, and wearable know-how, making STEM training extra accessible and interesting.
Alicia Gibb
At the moment, Alicia Gibb serves as the manager diirector of the Open Supply {Hardware} Affiliation (OSHWA), a nonprofit that educates about open supply {hardware}. She’s an advocate for open {hardware} with experience in IP and enterprise purposes. She additionally leads the Blow Issues Up (BTU) Lab at CU Boulder, educating computing and IT. As a part of her work, Gibb promotes open supply {hardware} ideas, group constructing, and inspiring innovation within the subject. Her OSHWA management has helped progress the open {hardware} ecosystem whereas supporting entrepreneurs and makers with open supply {hardware} venture growth throughout totally different industries.
Katherine Scott
Katherine Scott is a developer relations engineer at Intrinsic, Developer Advocate at Open Robotics, and a board member of the Open Supply {Hardware} Affiliation. She co-founded Tempo Automation (speedy PCB prototyping) and labored at Planet and 3Scan, the place she led picture analytics groups. Scott additionally helps progress open supply robotics applied sciences as a ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee member. She works in laptop imaginative and prescient, satellite tv for pc imaging, medical imaging, and manufacturing for nearly 20 years, specializing in sustainable open supply initiatives in robotics interfaces.
Katya Echazarreta
Katya Echazarreta is {an electrical} engineer and citizen astronaut from Mexico. She’s the very first Mexican girl to launch into house aboard Blue Origin’s spacecraft — achieved on June 4th, 2022, through House for Humanity’s Citizen Astronaut Program. Whereas at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she labored on 5 missions, together with Europa Clipper and Perseverance Rover because the Electronics Lead and Check Lead earlier than departing in September 2021 for science advocacy and training. She’s at the moment learning at John Hopkins College to earn her M.S. in Electrical and Pc Engineering. In February 2023, Echazarreta based Fundación Espacial Katya Echazarreta to help Latin Americans with their house profession ambitions and created Latin America’s first air and house coaching camp, specializing in robotics, planetary science, and analog Mars missions. She additionally led Mexico’s constitutional reform to control the house trade. Echazarreta runs a YouTube channel known as KatVoltage, sharing engineering subjects and STEM content material along with her viewers.
These are just a few of the thousands and thousands and billions of girls attaining greatness. Have just a few folks in thoughts you’d wish to see us characteristic sooner or later, tell us!
