Adafruit Flora NeoPixel Triple-LED Mount

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As part of our upcoming book series, we're starting to bring some of the designs from the book into play here. The first book in the Maker's End Inspiration Series, Arduino Inspiration, is a project-based Arduino tutorial with an eye towards STEAM-oriented projects that are more than just tech. It's aimed at beginners through middle-intermediates who have ideas but aren't sure how to put them into action. The first project in the book is a simple illuminated shadow box using Adafruit NeoPixels. We happened to have a ton of Flora NeoPixels, and this is a simple mounting bracket for them with wire channels. This version expects the wires to be run across the top, bottom, and middle, for Vcc, Gnd, and Signal respectively. There's also a separate version with a deeper channel to run all wiring through a central channel, but it still needs some tweaks, so it'll come later. If you happen to have a bunch of NeoPixels in this form factor lying around, you can print several of these and use them as an alternative to the rigid strip or a piece of flexible strip. This will give you an easy-to-mount way to throw up a triplet of Flora NeoPixels in your own mini-shadow boxes, ambient information displays, etc. Note: While we haven't had any problems using PLA, NeoPixels can generate heat, so you might want to use ABS or another material that provides more thermal tolerance.