Richard Adams (born December 8, 1954) is an independent inventor, engineer, businessman and founder of Happy Computers.

It originally gained coverage in the Miami Herald when he had enlisted the newspaper's help to find a TV station that would help him tune the camera.

[1] Although he did not invent, the fact that a child could build one cheaply drove home a point that made others desirous of this technology.

In 1974, whilst attending Florida Institute of Technology, Adams created an interface and software to connect an electronic organ to a computer so he could record and play back entire musical scores with full polyphony.

[3] Whilst employed in Silicon Valley between 1976 and 1982, Adams gave demonstrations on the testing of codecs and authored a paper on the subject.