Adafruit Flora NeoPixel Triple-LED Mount

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As part of our upcoming book series we're starting to put some of the designs from the book here. The first book in the Maker's End Inspiration Series, Arduino Inspiration, is a project-based Arduino tutorial with an eye towards more STEAM-oriented projects than pure tech. It's aimed at beginner through middle-intermediate who have ideas but aren't sure how to express them. The first project in the book is a simple illuminated shadow box using Adafruit NeoPixels. We happened to have a ton of the Flora NeoPixels: 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 a separate version with a deeper channel to run all wiring through a central channel bit it still wants some tweaks so it'll come later. If you happen to have a bunch of this form factor NeoPixels laying around, you can print several of these and use them as an alternative to the rigid strip or a piece of flexible strip, and have an easy-to-mount (we used hot glue, but if there's interest we could poke some holes in here for screw mounting) way to throw up a triplet of Flora NeoPixels in your own mini-shadow boxes, ambient information display, etc. Note: while we haven't had a problem using PLA, NeoPixels *can* generate heat, so you might want to use ABS/etc. just to provide a little more thermal tolerance.