Let us brighten your day - whether it's with a stupid funny desk toy, a handy breadboarding or PCB layout tool, or a quick soldering kit, we've got just the breath of fresh air you need. We're a woman-owned business that supports other women and marginalized folks in tech - whether you've been in the trenches for years, or are just starting out. Join us @alpenglowind on Twitter and Instagram, and keep in touch with our newsletter.
Looking for our specialty yarn-slinging tools? Head on over to Alpenglow Yarn.
Looking for our specialty yarn-slinging tools? Head on over to Alpenglow Yarn.
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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Coming Soon!Here's a sneak-peak of our Coin Cell and RBG-RGB boards!
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Looking for Lux Lavaliers?We had the honor of having the first few available to the public at our booth at SiliCon with Adam Savage, and they sold out! But don't worry, word on the street is that more are coming this fall. Sign up at luxlavalier.com to be notified!
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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 #44: Thea FlowersWe’re baaaaaaack and couldn’t be happier to welcome Thea to the show. We talk modular synths, pretty circuit boards, importing PCB artwork into KiCad, and python, and more! Watch and subscribe now!
How to Support Thea's Work! Ko-fi , GitHub Sponsors |
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W H A T ' S T H A T Y O U S A Y ?Irreverent Electronics? I'm in! |
A Few of Our Favorite Things:
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The FUnicorn!
Show everyone you're a classy bitch by telling them off in the most majestic way possible - with a rearing unicorn and elegant cursive script! It's also fully arduino-compatible, so you can make it your own by adding any kind of sensor for activation, or hooking it up to a Raspberry Pi for voice control. |
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The SwitchTrick
A super-handy tricked-out step-down switching power supply that's breadboard-compatible and comes with support standoffs! You can power it from a barrel plug, USB cable, or battery, it's output current is 1.0A, and the output voltage is jumper-selectable between: 1.8, 2.5, 3.0, 3.3, 3.7, 4.2, 5.0, 6.0, and an adjustable that you can set with a resistor. |
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PCB Rulers
Who the heck can keep track of all the different names that transistor and diode footprints are called? These rulers can! What the SOT?! lists every common (and a few uncommon) 3 to 8-pin transistor footprints with associated SOT, JEDEC, and EIA-J names. For the Love of SOD does the same for 2-pin diode and passive footprints. Super handy for sourcing alternate parts! |
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Soldering Kits
Whether you're new to soldering or just want to put together a quick project, our kits are sure to make you smile. We make new ones when it strikes our fancy, be sure to follow us in the places below to see when we release new ones! The Rain and Storm Clouds are great for beginners, and the others feature interest circuits that control the blinking (and those come with a switch to be solid on as well). |
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A B O U T U S
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We firmly believe that electronics is for everyone, and we have two main goals:
We've heard so many women say that they wish they had taken science and engineering courses in college. We've also heard women say they took a few, but left the field because they felt like outsiders in a nerd bro culture, were constantly fighting to be taken seriously, and were constantly judged for what they didn't already know instead of their capacity to learn. Because of crap like this, there are disproportionately few women who pursue electronics hardware and design as a career, and out of those who do start in the field, even fewer are retained. This imbalance is a serious issue, and it's not limited to women, it's also true for people of color, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, and people who grew up with economic hardships. The whole space of technology suffers in both culture and innovation when diversity is lacking. |
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We're working on creating a space where it's OK to be a beginner, it's OK to ask questions, and it's OK - scratch that - it's actively encouraged to get stupidly excited about blinking lights. We want everyone to know that it's never too late to learn new skills.
Alpenglow Industries is founded by Carrie Sundra. Carrie grew up on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands, then attended Harvey Mudd College where she proudly scored a 19 on her first electrical engineering exam. Electronics felt esoteric and unrelatable, so she subsequently chose to pursue more mechanical and manufacturing courses. But shortly after starting her first job, she got thrown into fine-pitch SMT soldering and sensor research for a 6” micro air vehicle (and this was in 1999, this stuff didn’t exist yet). Suddenly, faced with a super cool application and concrete “thing” to build and make work, electronics got a lot more interesting. Ever since, she’s designed custom PCBs and helped develop products for a variety of applications - from avionics for small UAVs that are now in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, to livestock thermometers, to waterproof power scrubbers, to assistive devices for freezing-of-gait Parkinson's symptoms, to her own yarn-winding and twisting devices. She now lives in San Luis Obispo, a coastal California town which is home to a burgeoning tech and maker community. She climbs, snowboards, knits, makes stuff, and teaches soldering to anyone who wants to learn.
Alpenglow Industries is founded by Carrie Sundra. Carrie grew up on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands, then attended Harvey Mudd College where she proudly scored a 19 on her first electrical engineering exam. Electronics felt esoteric and unrelatable, so she subsequently chose to pursue more mechanical and manufacturing courses. But shortly after starting her first job, she got thrown into fine-pitch SMT soldering and sensor research for a 6” micro air vehicle (and this was in 1999, this stuff didn’t exist yet). Suddenly, faced with a super cool application and concrete “thing” to build and make work, electronics got a lot more interesting. Ever since, she’s designed custom PCBs and helped develop products for a variety of applications - from avionics for small UAVs that are now in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, to livestock thermometers, to waterproof power scrubbers, to assistive devices for freezing-of-gait Parkinson's symptoms, to her own yarn-winding and twisting devices. She now lives in San Luis Obispo, a coastal California town which is home to a burgeoning tech and maker community. She climbs, snowboards, knits, makes stuff, and teaches soldering to anyone who wants to learn.