Marquee Party Bag

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Introduction

The Marquee Party Bag is a purse embedded with several LED Matrices and a Lilypad Microcontroller. The LEDs are easily programmable for the user to convey marquee messages or to simply make beautiful patterns. In this tutorial we will go through the step by step process of making this project.

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Required Materials

To follow along with this guide, you will need the following:

You Will Also Need:

  • A small purse
  • A hot glue gun
  • Hot glue sticks

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