The 2025 Alpenglow Gift Guide
Find the perfect gift for the maker or LED-lover in your life - and hey, maybe that's you!
We hope you find some inspiration and delight in the unique things our talented friends create.
Jumperless V5 lets you get circuits from your brain into hardware with so little friction it feels like you're just thinking them into existence. The built-in power supplies, voltage/current/resistance measurement, function generator, 10 GPIO, and an infinite drawer of jumper wires can all be placed with a tap of the probe or a Python script. So yeah, wizard shit.
Sander van de Bor's designs feature PCB art with LEDs that glow in mesmerizing patterns. His wearable jewelry is powered by supercapacitors, which allows it to rapidly charge in just 5 minutes, and they have a remarkable cycle life of over 50,000 recharges. The Duonacci features 103 custom-placed bi-color LEDs (Green and Blue or Red and Blue) that are mixed to achieve a vibrant spectrum.
The Cat Soldering kit is a gorgeous way to learn soldering skills, and becomes a night light that turns on in the dark. Snap out the pieces in this immersion gold and matte black circuit board and start soldering and assembling. This is a beautiful kit that you'll enjoy for long after building it!
These awesome little helper boards make it easier to wire up super flexible Pebble-style LED strands! While the pinout of our Pebble Buddies are optimized for Pixelblaze Pico LED controllers and these Pebble-style strands, they can be used with our cable pigtails (or individual wires) to connect to any style of addressable LED strip or PCB shape (matrices, fibonaccis, etc!), and any LED controller.
The Pixelblaze Pico is the perfect way to sparkle up any LED project. It's tiny, but has the same ESP32 firepower of its larger sibling, and the V3 includes a 6-axis sensor to support motion-reactive patterns. It fits perfectly with wearable projects and is supported by an awesome community with hundreds of patterns available.
Jason Coon is a purveyor of finely hand-crafted pixels. The One Inch Fibonacci128 is a tiny, beautiful 25.4mm circular disc with 128 1mm WS2812B RGB LEDs surface mounted in a Fibonacci / Fermat's Spiral distribution. The three mounting holes are surrounded by capacitive touch compatible pads, and it has solder pads on the back that match the pinout of the QT Py by Adafruit, or XIAO by Seeed. It's perfect for turning into a DIY wearable.
GlowStitch LED kits are the first machine sewable LED strips, allowing you to do wearable tech and crafting projects with just conductive tape! No coding or soldering required, and a great introduction to electronics basics.
Light yourself up with this fun rechargeable jewelry! These neon-like pieces last for 12 hrs on a single charge, plug them into any USB-C charger. Each shape can be made as a necklace or earrings, and we even have options compatible with large holes/gauges.
Young Maker Edition is a book that gamifies learning Makerspace skills for 8-12 year olds. Packed with video game inspired skill trees and activities, kids can keep track of their skill levels and get inspired to level themselves up on school holidays!
Darcy Neal is an interactive audio-visual hardware designer & educator who produces large-scale art installations and teaches inclusive workshops about hardware electronics at events worldwide. Their EMF Explorer soldering kit features beautifully detailed art which can also be worn as a badge on a lanyard, used to illuminate yourself at night, and is ready to sniff out hidden (and possibly otherworldly!) EMF signals with the use of headphones or external speaker. Listen to the world of hidden electromagnetic frequencies all around you!
Perfect as a desk toy or perched on a shelf, this kit is easy to assemble, has an amazing build guide, and the wood can be stained or painted for a custom look. The Pixelblaze Sensor Board's built-in microphone enables sound reactive patterns, or use the line-in jack for high quality audio straight from an AV setup. The combination of a high quality HDR matrix with Pixelblaze's smooth animation gives a magical, almost infinitely smooth look, which is gorgeous at any light level.
Sander van de Bor's designs feature PCB art with LEDs that glow in mesmerizing patterns. His wearable jewelry is powered by supercapacitors, which allows it to rapidly charge in just 5 minutes, and they have a remarkable cycle life of over 50,000 recharges. The Amoracci features 91 single color LEDs arranged in a lovely heart shape, and are the perfect way to illuminate your love for Fibonacci sequences and cutting-edge tech.







