Trying to find something in your purse at a dark restaurant or party? What a pain! Make it easy to see what's in your bag with LED sequins, GEMMA, and conductive hook & loop

This beginner level e-textiles project has you sewing with conductive thread and loading a simple Arduino program onto the GEMMA microcontroller. This project is perfect for use with the GEMMA Sequin Starter Pack! Just add hook & loop. Before you get started, follow the Gemma M0 guide or the Classic Introducing GEMMA guide 

This guide was written for the Gemma v2 board, but can be done with either the v2 or Gemma M0. We recommend the Gemma M0 as it is easier to use and is more compatible with modern computers!

Gather up the following parts & tools:

This guide was first published on Apr 30, 2014. It was last updated on Mar 16, 2024.

This page (Overview) was last updated on Apr 29, 2014.

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