During the course of the week that Caroline was here last year, we assembled the Bright Bunny kit from SparkFun. I picked it because it combines both electronics (my hobby) and crafts (Caroline’s).

The kit starts with a small circuit board that you solder some components to. The most important component is the black rectangular thing. It’s a reed switch that closes the loop between a battery and an LED when a magnet is close by.

The soldering was really simple. We finished it in a few minutes.

However, the sewing took a long time.

We placed the circuit board with the reed switch inside the body of the rabbit and the magnet inside the carrot. As you can see, the rabbit’s tummy lights up when the carrot comes close to it.

We named him Sandy Cat. Caroline chose the name Cat. We decided to also name him Sandy after the hurricane (that Caroline narrowly missed on her way to California). Sandy Cat now lives happily with Caroline in New York.