Adafruit FLORA Wearable Sensors, Modules & Neo Pixels
- Adafruit 1559, The Adafruit FLORA Wearable RGB Neo Pixels bring extra blinkiness to your next wearable project & what's better than a few RGB LEDs? The answer is a sheet of 20 Neo Pixels. These seemingly simple gadgets have triggered an amazing array of creative projects, from watches & compasses to steampunk goggles & more. Each Neo Pixel has solder pads for 5V DC & Gnd, plus data-in & data-out, using just 1 x GPIO pin on your FLORA microcontroller. Simply feed the data-out from one Neo Pixel into the data-in of another to control them both from the same microcontroller (MCU). These LEDs are quite power hungry, up to 55m A each, & if you use all 20 on one project you are going to need a separate power supply & good copper wire between them. You can still use the conductive thread for the data connections though. Adafruit have published a driver library to save you the trouble & let you get on with designing eye catching displays. They have a reputation for the quality of their supporting documentation & you will find their Uberguide to Neo Pixels & their Best Practices guides invaluable. In particular the Best Practices guide will help you prolong the life of your Neo Pixels & avoid common mistakes. Adafruit 1559 FLORA RGB Smart Neo Pixel version 2
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