As part of my BWSI summer course we were prompted to build a light up purse with embedded neopixels. It was supposed to be an introduction to machine sewing, e-sewing, and integrating electronic parts into textiles. As someone who had never sewn before, I found that to be the most challenging part of this exercise. 1. The idea prototype sketch I came up with a forest scene for my purse, since I wanted it to tell a story. The idea is that the snap on the purse (that I would hand sew on) would act as a switch, which turned on the lights on the front side of the purse. These lights would have bear paws going to trees embroidered on them, and would light up sequentially to make it seem like the bear paws are "going" to the trees. Then, when you opened up the purse, the switch would be "off" and sensing this, the circuit would direct another neopixel which is stationed on the nose of a bear print inside the fold of the purse to blink red (simulating a "rudolph ...