Adafruit Speaks Out Against Mamdani RPi Ban

New York-based Adafruit, a legendary company in the maker and electronics-education industry, has posted about the Flipper Zero and Raspberry Pi ban at the inauguration for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Raspberry Pi is a general-purpose single-board computer. It shows up in classrooms, newsrooms, accessibility rigs, art installations, and civic tech demos. Flipper Zero is a consumer electronics testing tool, but its functional territory overlaps heavily with laptops, smartphones, radios, and microcontrollers that remain perfectly legal to carry. If the concern is electronic interference, signal disruption, or hacking, the policy does not say that. It gestures vaguely by naming a couple of gadgets and hoping the implication sticks. Curiosity is now contraband.

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