Don’t forget to turn in those ballots today! And if you need a little more bling, our I Voted pins and kits are on sale through the end of the day today! www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/...

#vote #ivoted #yovoté

Original thread from making the sign, and there’s more on mastodon. Last night I made a snap-in holder for cylindrical 18650 battery banks and taped it to the back of my sign with some VHB. Makes changing batteries much easier than just taping them to the back of the sign.

This uses the Sensor Board add-on for the Pixelblaze which contains a microphone and enables patterns to be sound-reactive. @bhencke.bsky.social

Honeycomb pattern, one of the preloaded ones on a Pixelblaze LED controller by electromage @bhencke.bsky.social

Here’s a tour of our booth at Lambtown Festival, tomorrow and Sunday! We’ve got lots of yarn swifts, ✨NEW✨ Glow Gauges, ⭐️NEW⭐️ Glowie jewelry, and some favorites - Card Gauges, StitchFishes, and Knitting Rulers! If you’re near the Bay Area or Sacramento, it’s near both in Dixon, CA, check it out!

Whoa! What a Saturday at Maker Faire Bay Area! We were so busy all day that I never got a chance to post anything! Here’s what our booth looks like, we’ll be there 1 more day, tomorrow (Sunday) until 5pm!

#mfba2025 #makerfaire #makerfairebayarea #glowies #alpenglowies #pixelblaze #learntosolderkits

Here’s the final style of Glowie we’re making! Shooting stars and flames! These fun animations draw attention without being too distracting, and their battery life is double the solid Glowies, so around 20-24 hrs on a single charge. #glowie #alpenglowie #ledjewelry #mfba2025 #makerfaire

Production today starts with a dip in conformal coat to insulate the exposed wires and pads. #glowies #alpenglowies #ledjewelry

Soldering! #glowies #alpenglowies #ledjewelry

Yo dawg I heard you like panels.

The second part showing how the front cover snaps into the bottom cover and the PCB. I knew I wanted the bottom cover to be the primary one, because it covers the battery and is most important. That left little room for the top cover to snap on, so it’s mostly notches for the bottom cover’s tabs.

A video about the Glowie covers I designed which I’m super proud of. They’re my first snap-together design and it took several iterations but came out great. Huge shout-out to Noe Ruiz for his great tutorial video, and @evilgeniuslabs.org for reminding me it existed. 1/2 #glowie #alpenglowie

Glowie assembly! Double-stick tape is already on the PCBs, I plug in a battery, peel the tape, stick the battery down, and dress the wires. Then I snap the bottom cover on, and snap the top cover on. #alpenglowies #glowies #ledjewelry

At Alpenglow Yarn, we make the world’s worst umbrellas. 😂 But we make great umbrella swifts! Here’s a sampling of what we’ve been building up for Lambtown Festival this year. We’re part of the @craftamongfriends.bsky.social crew, so there will be postcard stamping, giveaways, and more!