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NeoPixels

The Circuit Playground Express version of Crickit

hardwires the NeoPixel control to Circuit Playground

Express pad A1 as shown at left.

MakeCode knows all about it and provides support via

the LIGHTS block group which will show a NEOPIXELS

sub block group for handling strips and other "off-board"

NeoPixels like the NeoPixel terminal on Crickit.

There is also one Crickit NeoPixel MakeCode allows you

to control.

Cricket connected NeoPixels are connected to the three

terminals on the NeoPixel block as shown at left for the

micro:bit version of Crickit.

GND is connected to GND, +5V to 5V, and the middle

arrow terminal to the NeoPixel's Din pin.

You will need to add the appropriate microcontroller

(Circuit Playground Express or micro:bit) to the

appropriate version of Crickit to control things, of course

(they are not shown for clarity).

Crickit easily allows you to work with NeoPixels. There is one on-board to the right of the Capacitive Touch pads. There

is also a terminal block called NeoPixel next to the Crickit Speaker terminal output. The NeoPixel terminal connections

makes it super easy to use a strip or ring of NeoPixels to light up anything.

MakeCode for Crickit NeoPixels

Using the Crickit Onboard Single NeoPixel

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-crickit-creative-robotic-interactive-

construction-kit

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