The Adafruit FLORA Wearable RGB NeoPixels bring extra blinkiness to your next wearable project and what's better than a few RGB LEDs? The answer is a sheet of 20 NeoPixels. These seemingly simple gadgets have triggered an amazing array of creative projects, from watches and compasses to steampunk goggles and more. Each NeoPixel has solder pads for 5V DC and Gnd, plus data-in and data-out, using just 1 x GPIO pin on your FLORA microcontroller. Simply feed the data-out from one NeoPixel into the data-in of another to control them both from the same microcontroller (MCU).

These LEDs are quite power hungry, up to 55mA each, and if you use all 20 on one project you are going to need a separate power supply and 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 and let you get on with designing eye catching displays. They have a reputation for the quality of their supporting documentation and you will find their Uberguide to NeoPixels and their Best Practices guides invaluable. In particular the Best Practices guide will help you prolong the life of your NeoPixels and avoid common mistakes.

• Sheet of 20 x RGB NeoPixels
• 24-bit colour, individually addressable LEDs
• 5 to 9V DC power supply
• Up to 55mA per pixel
• 12.5mm diameter (0.5in.)
• Adafruit part no.: 1559

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The Adafruit Silicone Elastomer 4 x 4 Button Keypad is a little different from most microcontroller keyboards, instead of hard plastic buttons, these are squishy elastomer. Each button has room for a 3mm LED so that you can illuminate just those keys that are active in your project. You don't have to add LEDs, but it does look pretty cool; diffused LEDs are the best. Because they're made from soft silicon, they're washable and you can trim off any buttons you don't want. Adafruit have also made the keypads edge to edge tileable to create larger arrangements. Each button has a conductive ring which makes contact with a properly designed PCB underneath (not supplied). Adafruit provide an EagleCad library so that you can design your own. Alternatively you can pick up an Adafruit Trellis driver PCB which will do it for you.

• 4 x 4 button matrix with room for 3mm LEDs in each button
• Can also be used with the NeoTrellis RGB Driver PCB
• Wipe clean, tileable, cuttable
• 3mm travel per button
• Dimensions: 60 x 60 x 11.5mm (2.4 x 2.4 x 0.45in.)
• Adafruit part no.: 1611

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The Adafruit Wearable Ruby Red LED Sequins can hook to your Gemma or Flora board to show off your coding and your design skills at the same time. Use PWM to make them fade or sparkle for your next wearable or cosplay project. They consist of a 1206 size LED with a 100 Ohm limiting resistor and only draw 5mA at 3.3V letting you stack 4 or 5 of them on a single GPIO pin. You don't strictly need an MCU either, simply power them from a LiPo or coin battery.

• 1206 size LEDs with 100 Ohm series resistor
• 4 x 9mm (0.16 x 0.35in.)
• 2mm thick
• Holes are 7mm (0.28in.) apart
• Sold in a pack of 5
• Adafruit part no.: 1755

Alternatively, if you like to control the colour of your wearable bling, take a look at the FLORA Wearable NeoPixels (73-5354) which are also available in a sheet of 20 (73-5369).

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The Adafruit Wearable Royal Blue LED Sequins can hook to your Gemma or Flora board to show off your coding and your design skills at the same time. Use PWM to make them fade or sparkle for your next wearable or cosplay project. They consist of a 1206 size LED with a 100 Ohm limiting resistor and only draw 5mA at 3.3V letting you stack 4 or 5 of them on a single GPIO pin. You don't strictly need an MCU either, simply power them from a LiPo or coin battery.

• 1206 size LEDs with 100 Ohm series resistor
• 4 x 9mm (0.16 x 0.35in.)
• 2mm thick
• Holes are 7mm (0.28in.) apart
• Sold in a pack of 5
• Adafruit part no.: 1757

If you would like to control the colour of your wearable bling, take a look at the FLORA Wearable NeoPixels (73-5354) which are also available in a sheet of 20 (73-5369).

*Customers looking to resell on eBay or Amazon should contact Adafruit directly.

By popular request, Adafruit have upgraded their popular Trellis elastomer button kits to have a PCB with full colour NeoPixel support! No more single-colour LEDs, you can now have any colour you like under the fantastic rubbery button pads.

These 4x4 button pad boards are fully tile-able and communicate over I2C. With 5 address pins, you've got the ability to connect up to 32 together in any arrangement you like. With the trusty seesaw I2C-to-anything chip, you don't even need to manage the NeoPixel driving. That's right! Both the button management and LED driving is completely handled for you all over plain I2C. With both Arduino/C++ and CircuitPython/Python library support, you can use these pads with any and all microcontroller or computer boards.

Perfect for your next cool interface, MIDI instrument, control panel ... wherever could benefit from beautiful diffused colourful buttons. For fast connection to a single board, there's a JST-PH 4-pin connector installed that will give you both power and data access. It's Grove compatible (the cable fits, even though its not the exact same connector), or you can use a JST-PH 4 pin cable.

You can tile up to 32 boards together by soldering them edge-to-edge and soldering closed the I2C address jumpers, then use one I2C connection for all tiled NeoTrellis boards!

Each order comes with one NeoTrellis board with seesaw chip and 16 NeoPixels already soldered in place. The elastomer button pad is not included, so be sure to pick one up!

• Dimensions: 60mm (2.4in.) x 60mm (2.4in.) x 4mm (0.3in.)
• Uses I2C 7-bit addresses between 0x2E to 0x4D selectable by soldering jumpers on the back of the board
• Weight: 13.3g (0.5oz.)
• Adafruit part no.: 3954

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