Project Mc2 Smart Pixel Fashion Light Purse, Toy Gift for Kids and Girls, Ages 7 8+ to 12 Years Old

As a grown man, carrying around a hot-pink purse toy isn’t exactly up my alley. As a purse, it’s unusable. The body is cheap, hard plastic and there is barely enough room to hold a small phone. As someone who isn’t and has never been a young girl, I guess this could be cool as a toy if they’re into the show or like techy gadgets.But, like others here, the LED matrix display is what I bought this for. Thankfully, it’s very easy to remove and modify. There isn’t much logic on the display itself, though. You’ll be writing data and multiplexing manually. The included controller board is a no-name Microcontroller, so you’ll probably want to use an Arduino or raspberry pi to control this. Another bummer is that the on-board shift registers for the display only have Chinese documentation. But, if you’ve got an oscilloscope and/or logic analyzer ready, reverse engineering the pins isn’t a huge task.

Purchased for a gift.

This device was billed as a kids' (girls') digital plaything. It's not a purse, as it doesn't have room to hold much other than the cellphone it needs to be hooked up to in order to be most useful - and it is made of hard plastic, with a rubbery shoulder strap that isn't very flexible. It truly was intended to be a "portable electronic signboard" for kids.If your girl is into tech, and can see herself editing her digital light creations using the cramped real estate of her cellphone, then by all means - this is the toy for her!If, however, you are a hardware hacker and wish to buy up INCREDIBLY inexpensive 16x32 full-color-LED displays that are compatible with the hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix github library - THIS TOY IS IT! Just remove about 6 phillips screws, cut two wires and remove a board from the display's header and - viola! A 7 dollar 16x32 LED display board! Go get a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a power supply and a few jumper cables and you have a great start at a fully computer-controlled signboard! Link more than one of these display boards together with some soldering and you're off to JumboTron or Times Square - type "tickertape" (marquee) signage heaven!

First I ordered this straight from amazon so I thought everything would be factory, and it didn’t even come in the original packaging. I ordered 3 things an echo,this purse and a Xbox game. All came in one box. The echo and game were sealed in original packing. However the purse was in a second shipping box within the first. No original packing no instructions. Today is Christmas so I gave it to my 8 yr old daughter and she was so excited because she asked Santa for it. She downloaded the app and after she made and downloaded 1 picture it won’t download or connect to her phone anymore. I googled instructions and deleted app and downloaded it again to no avail. Even downloaded app to my own phone. The purse will not take her initials. That’s all we were trying to do. It did dowload the first pic just fine, then it stopped. The purse will still play the preloaded pics. But not ones we make through the app. Then the zipper came off. This is a great concept but it’s cheap and cheesy. Don’t waste your $50 bucks on this crap. Below is a pic of how it came. Looks used to me not new. I paid for new!!!!

I purchased this as a DIY person. I recognized the LEDs used and wanted to see if I could confirm this and build my own LED Matrix. Turns out, I was right! It's a very simple, generic circuit board attached to a classic RGB Matrix that you'd find used in things like LED Billboards. The matrix its self is worth $25, making this a good buy.However, I also had plans to use it as-is after re purposing it into another case, but the application stopped me. From a toys perspective, this item is really frustrating to use. Drawing stuff with their app is hell and scrolling text is limited to one small message at a time. There are no fancy text effects or anything to keep an older kid entertained for more than the moment they get it.If you're going to purchase this, do so for your own DIY projects! Negated 2 stars for the poor quality interface. 5 stars for the idea its self, but we're grading more than just the idea here.

I guess make sure you read the description… I thought it was an actual purse, it’s hard plastic,The space you have to put something like a purse is where you have to plug in to change the picture on the front as well.Cute concept though

My daughter really wanted this for Christmas from Santa! I thought "ugh, it's not even a functional purse!" However, I gave it 5 stars, b/c for the purpose of it, she LOVES it and its' super easy to work She's 6.5 and can design things in the app and download it to the purse once I showed her how the first time. Now, by no means is this a REAL purse. You cannot put anything in it. It's super hard plastic and the zipper is fake. However, she just loved it for the pixel screen on it and she carries it everywhere and made lots of fun designs and messages.

Whether you like this depends on what you expect to do with it. My son and I actually enjoy playing around with the app and making new animations and that actually works pretty well for us on iPhone. We took it out of the awful plastic “purse” immediately and I feel bad about all that grotesque plastic. We are definitely going to start hacking it with a Raspberry Pi, for which this LED matrix is a great value.