CYBER SHOPPING WEEK!
From November 21st to November 30th get FREE shipping on all orders $75 or more (U.S. only) with coupon code SHIP75, and every order gets a FREE 1/4W plywood resistor bender! Be sure to check out our Surface Mount Soldering Bundle (which includes a free pair of "beater" tweezers to the first 20 orders. They're not bad, but they're not as good as the ones we provide with our Soldering Iron kits. So go ahead, use them as pliers, we don't care!)
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, @alpenglow@mstdn.social on mastodon, 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.
Surface Mount BundleGrab 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 |
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Our founder Carrie grew up in what is called a “US Territory” which is this neat-o thing that is “under American sovereignty” yet you may be surprised to learn, not eligible for some of the typical things you might associate with being a US citizen like voting for president and having voting representation in Congress. Neat right? Or wait would that be taxation without representation? Where have we seen that phrase and what did the folks subjected to it do again!? OK these long sleeves are getting a bit hot, so we’ll cut to the point: as people who have not always had the ability to vote, it’s something that we take very seriously – like make-a-whole-badge-about-it seriously – and we’re upping the ante even further by donating 10% of all sales of our I Voted and Yo Voté badges (also available pre-assembled if soldering’s not your thing!) to Equally American, who are fighting to end second-class citizenship in America’s colonies.
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NEW in Store!
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We're super excited to be offering for a short time Kitty Yeung's BLE Flowers!
Two flowers are included, which are BLE-enabled and can be programmed via Arduino and Scratch! They can react to each other depending on distance apart, and also feature an accelerometer, vibration motor, touch sensors, and of course, LEDs! |
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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 #49 - Danielle Boyer of the Steam Connection & SkobotsDanielle creates companion bots that help preserve and teach Native American languages, while also teaching the basics of robotics and STEM. She is a truly impressive force and highly accomplished - she founded a non-profit organization called the Steam Connection that provides companions bots and robotics education to indigenous groups for free, she has spoken around the country including at the White House, and she's won several awards for her work. It's my pleasure to have her on and chat robots and making STEM more accessible with her! 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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