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Looking for our specialty yarn-slinging tools? Head on over to Alpenglow Yarn.
It's Krampus Season!Krampus is coming for all you naughty makers out there! We've got Krampus in 4 different versions! That's right 4! We have the original circuit boards available in 3 versions: fully assembled and ready to hang with glowing red eyes and tongue; as a Hacker Challenge Kit with the board, components, programmer, and programmer adapter kit; or as a plain board with hanging hardware so you can provide your own backlighting and/or eyes and tongue color. And we also have a new beginner-friendly Krampus Kit! Just put the 2 LEDs through the board, wrap them with the wires from the battery holder, insert the battery, and you're ready for some demonic fun! This kit is great for anyone new to electronics, or for you old hacks that love a quick and easy old-school "breadboard" - style project.
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Now Available!Circuit Snowflake & Festive Palm Tree! We’re going old school this winter with two original breadboard style LED kits! That’s right, no soldering required! These kits are great for the whole family whether you’re an electronics novice or an electronics wizard!
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Holiday Stuffing Stockers!Great small kits & tools, the perfect gift for any maker!
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Surface Mount Bundle
Grab our surface mount soldering bundle for $49.95! (10% off individual price). Bundle will be available through December. These kits range in difficulty from beginner with our SMT Garden all the way to intermediate with our PS I Hate You Kit. This bundle is great for anyone wanting to hone their SMT soldering skills and also love colorful, blinky LEDs! In addition to the kits we will also be including a FREE pair of "beater" tweezers to the first 20 orders!
The bundle includes: 1 - SMT Garden Kit 1 - Foxy Pride Kit 1 - PS I Hate You Kit |
SMT Garden Now Available!This is our "official" Learn to Surface Mount Solder kit! It's got a "Practice Stalks" area on the back where you can solder rows of 1206, 0603, and 0402 resistors and capacitors, as well as mini-melf and SOD-323 diodes. On half of the footprints, one pad is tied to ground, which gives you experience with soldering to pads with some heat sinking. You might be asking "but what about 0805s?" Well those are part of the actual circuit! It's also part of our Fun with 555s series, and uses 2 dual 555 timers and an inverter to create 5 different blink rates, one for each flower. You can make your flowers whatever color you want (or multicolor!), just be sure to match the LEDs with their corresponding resistor values. We hope your SMT soldering skills flourish and grow with this cool kit!
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The Alpenglow ShopWhether you're just dipping your toes into electronics & soldering, or have been swimming the PNP seas for ages, we've got something you'll light up about.
Shop our soldering kits, tools, and arduino-compatible boards! 
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Latest Livestream
Solder Sesh #50 - Solderless Snowflake and Chilly Snow CloudWe debut our new upcoming SOLDERLESS snowflake kit, and solder up one of our Chilly Snow Clouds! Watch and subscribe now!
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From the Blog
CIRCUITPYTHON FOR C HEADS: PARDON THE INTERRUPTSWhen Dennis Ritchie created C in the 1970s, he was targeting UNIX systems the size of several large appliances – it’s hard to believe he could have ever imagined that the language he was cobbling together could end up as a critical underpinning for the countless invisible microcontrollers that surround us every day. And he certainly wasn’t thinking about approachability for the would-be microcontroller audience. Fast-forward fifty or so years, however, and Adafruit have attempted to simplify learning to code on microcontrollers by developing the CircuitPython language.
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