#239 Using An ESP32 with 🟢🔴🔵NeoPixels - What Went Wrong? Simple Fix!

Using an ESP32 with NeoPixels is easy and rewarding if you do it right! ► JLCPCB Only $2 for PCB Prototype any colour https://jlcpcb.com/cyt 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPVi3bI7_Z4 Adafruit's "The Magic of NeoPixels" https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel-uberguide/the-magic-of-neopixels Adafruit: Best Practices https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel-uberguide/best-practices FastLED library for NeoPixels (An alternative to Adafruit's) https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/ Adafruit's NeoPixel Library https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPixel Sketches and libraries in my GitHub https://github.com/RalphBacon/239-ESP32-NeoPixels ► List of all my videos (Special thanks to Michael Kurt Vogel for compiling this) http://bit.ly/YouTubeVideoList-RalphBacon ► If you like this video please give it a thumbs up, share it and if you're not already subscribed please consider doing so and joining me on my Arduinite (and other μControllers) journey My channel, GitHub and blog are here: ------------------------------------------------------------------ • https://www.youtube.com/RalphBacon • https://ralphbacon.blog • https://github.com/RalphBacon • https://buymeacoffee.com/ralphbacon ------------------------------------------------------------------