她说：“晶体管只有专家才会用，但我个人不接受这个观点，我不认为我们这个时代的基本构件是专供专家使用的，所以我决定改变这种状况。”

比戴尔开发了littleBits，一种用磁铁扣合在一起的小电路板，无需焊接、布线或编程。每一个电路板都有其特定的功能。发明家们将littleBits以不同的组合方式连接在一起来制作他们自己的设备，例如乐器及合成器、小型机器人，乃至按摩枕。

就连美国航空航天局(NASA)也在提供一种littleBits太空工具包，用于教授学生电子知识，并帮助他们制作一个确实可以“漫游”的火星探测器模型。现代艺术博物馆(Museum of Modern Art)也在其展示窗内摆放了用littleBits制作的作品。

比戴尔的故事是一个典型的美国故事。她是黎巴嫩裔，在加拿大出生。但她在美国学习，并通过逐步筹集所需的风险资本（venture capital）在这里建立了自己的公司（总部设在纽约市）。

比戴尔的职业生涯说明了培养年轻女孩的各种能力的重要性。伴随她成长的有编程课程、化学实验器皿和电子工具箱，当然还有洋娃娃。

她敦促女性企业家专注于手头的工作。她在接受PopSugar的采访时说：“很多人都这样想，‘因为我是女性，他们不给我机会’ ，或者‘因为我是女性，他们不把我当回事’。而我不去想这些。……我只是尽我最大的能力把工作做到最好就可以了，我不想占用我大脑的任何空间去想这些。”

比戴尔说：“我们要鼓励世界上所有的人都来当创造者、发明家和贡献者。因为我们生活在其中的这个世界，这个互动的世界，是属于我们的。”

You can build a Mars rover, with this woman’s help

Ayah Bdeir wants you to be an inventor. The MIT grad knows her way around a transistor, and she’s figured out how you can too.

“The transistor was only for experts,” she says. “I personally don’t accept this, that the building block of our time is reserved for experts, so I decided to change that.”

Bdeir developed littleBits, small circuit boards that snap together with magnets; no soldering, wiring or programming required. Each has a specific function. Inventors hook the littleBits together in different combinations to make their own devices. Examples include musical instruments and synthesizers, small robots and even massage pillows.

Even NASA is on board, offering a littleBits space kit that teaches students about electronics and helps them build a model Mars rover that actually “roves.” So is the Museum of Modern Art, which featured littleBits creations in its window displays.

Bdeir’s is the quintessential American story. She’s of Lebanese origin and was born in Canada. But she studied in the U.S. and built her company here (headquarters in New York City), raising needed venture capital along the way.

Bdeir’s career illustrates the importance ofempowering young girls. She grew up playing with programming lessons, chemistry sets, electricity kits and dolls.

She urges women entrepreneurs to focus on the job at hand. “A lot of people are like, ‘Because I’m a woman, they’re not giving me an opportunity’ or ‘Because I’m a woman, they’re not taking me seriously,’” she told PopSugar. “I don’t think about it. … I just do the best work I possibly can, and I feel like I don’t want to take up any brain space thinking about it.”

“We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors,” Bdeir says, “because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.”