Blenster @Blenster@qoto.org

Did you just come back from a festival? Are your glowy clothes dirty and stinky as fuck? Let’s talk about washing clothes with LEDs in them! 🧵 And first, I’m gonna trigger people with this real actual photo of me fully submersing an LED jacket and scarf made by the immaculate @geekmomprojects in a washing machine. Please make my day and enter gasps and horrified comments below.

Got a super fun package from Ian at Bolt Industries today - he doesn’t have much social presence but has been doing cool and fun maker PCBs as small Kickstarter campaigns for several years. These reference circuits are great - nice cards that introduce you to electrical components and circuits, some with USB connectors and a functional example of the component/circuit. You can get Vols 1 & 2 on his website and 0 thru Kickstarter. https://www.boltind.com/

If @murderbotbot has brought you joy, you might consider giving to the creator’s (@writerphoebe ) gofundme for her kitty who needs cancer surgery, or boost her toots about it.

(This is the creator of the mastodon bot, obvs not the author of the books.)

https://gofund.me/0e0a702d

I’m looking for a group that does electronics education including teaching soldering & outreach to predominantly Hispanic people - I have 89 of these Yo Voté soldering kits that I’d love to donate to a good home. It’s a transistor oscillator circuit that alternately flashes red and blue LEDs. CR2032 battery not included. More info on our website: https://www.alpenglowindustries.com/pages/i-voted-yo-vot-instructions

I’m also sending a bunch to @crashspaceLA along with a giant pile of other soldering kits. :) I’ll also have some at SOAK.

IT'S TIME.

Fair warning. I am doing so much leading up to camp time that I have snapped.

I WILL GIVE YOU GIFTS TO WOO YOU INTO SUPPORTING MY ELECTRONICS CAMP.

SO MUCH ONLINE STUFF. WOW. YOU CAN HAVE IT NOW:

DIGITAL SWAG BAG https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BdqvnkGUO3zN89wcenesUKxZHLq7_uYW

AWESOME HIGH QUALITY POSTER FILES (HANG THEM IN MAKERSPACES) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HPBhUm9O-gqaC83kLy-vKA-N4CX-IKF8

WE PLEASE YOUR GIRLFRIENDS 😈 AND YES YOUR MOMS. YOU OWE US.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-glow-electronics-camp-fundraiser-26-dn9h7

I just read up on "BrowserGate", where LinkedIn is secretly (and illegally) searching users' computers for installed Chrome extensions. So of course I had to create a simple example web page to demonstrate what they're doing.
It uses only client-side javascript and doesn't send your data anywhere: https://jasoncoon.github.io/chrome-ext-list
More info: https://browsergate.eu

Hey-o Alpenglow KiCad Library just dropped, get it while it's hot. It's where I put all my custom symbols and footprints, just made it public. https://github.com/AlpenglowIndustries/Alpenglow_KiCAD_Libs

Surfacing this in case there's more folks into making my Maker Rig make sense.

All the tasty deets in the link on being a solo woman pulling full time, unemployed, to create and fight for multiple platforms that are good and true in the world of tech.

A friend once described my whole vibe as "No, you move". I'm years in. I do 90%. You make the last 10%.

Subvert GoFundMe fees:
Venmo: (at)claire-cassidy-2
CashApp: $ClaireDCassidy
PayPal: clacassidy@gmail.com

Thank you.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-my-amazing-maker-rig-alive

We're down to the last 2 days of our closing sale! On top of the 50% off (discount shown after items are added to your cart), orders placed this weekend will get a fun freebie thrown in and orders over $50 get free US shipping with coupon code ITSHIPSWHENITSHIPS. 😂 This is the last chance to get a Swift Repair Kit and any of our Glowies, Glow Gauges, FUnicorns, LED Buddies, and a myriad of little electronics helpers and fun things. Boosts appreciated! #fedigiftshop https://www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/closing-sale

RE: https://mstdn.social/@alpenglow/116188791937841655

Last day! I mean you prob get a few extra hours until I wake up tomorrow and manually disable buy buttons, but yanno. Basically last day to get any Alpengoodies. ❤️