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Flora driving LED's

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How many individual LED's can a Flora drive? I was thinking of purchasing a 24 LED NeoPixel ring and was wondering if its possible to control via PWM.

I would like to turn on an LED, fade it out, move to the next repeat until a full loop is done, if possible the speed of rotation to be configurable, also the period at which the next LED in the sequence comes on also configurable.

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A FLORA can easily handle 24 NeoPixels. However, you can't drive NeoPixels via PWM - they have PWM on-board, and you control them via a communications protocol. A single FLORA can drive hundreds of NeoPixels.

Please see our NeoPixel Uberguide:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel-uberguide

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Thank you, that is good news.

So fading in/out 24 LED's independantly from a Flora wouldn't be a problem?

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No problem at all.

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Excellent thank you.

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