Help with LED RGB Strip - Addressable, 1m (APA102) with microbit/gatorbit

Components & Accessories LEDs
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Hello! I have just purchased ten of these strips for student projects in my classroom. I can’t get them to light up in any way.

I’ve tried everything using the Yellow GRD, Red +, Green D1 (data) hooked up to the gatorbit 5V, the microbit itself, tried differernt data pins, using the power for the gatorbit, having it plugged into the computer via USB, nothing works :frowning:

I bought these directly from Sparkfun in hopes to use them with our microbits / gatorbits. any info for making this happen woulbe be great! Including a refund of they are not compatible :expressionless:

Thank You!

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You’re using the wrong kind of leds. Neopixels use 3 wires, the APA’s use 4.

The link below might help.

https://www.smythe-consulting.com/2017/ … h.html?m=1

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Another link:

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/Chapter_ … t-Microbit