Using an ESP32 with NeoPixels is easy and rewarding if you do it right!
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I thought it would be a few minutes work to connect up a string or two of NeoPixels (Serially Addressable LEDs) to an ESP32 but I was in for a surprise (and lost an hour). Watch how I fixed the problem.

DigiKey: How Smart Shift Register LEDs Work: NeoPixels
   • How Smart Shift Register LEDs Work: N...  

Adafruit's "The Magic of NeoPixels"
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-n...

Adafruit: Best Practices
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-n...

FastLED library for NeoPixels (An alternative to Adafruit's)
https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/

Adafruit's NeoPixel Library
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_...

Sketches and libraries in my GitHub
https://github.com/RalphBacon/239-ESP...

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