UPDATE! Total success now. Thanks so much to everybody that helped. Great community over here.

So there was a problem with the tutorial script and a problem with me. Thanks for fixing the script David and +1 for making it such that I could dump that old Arduino version.

The problem with me was that I had the EZB connected to the TX of the Arduino and not the RX. I figured the Arduino was transmitting something to the ring. The wiring diagram in the tutorial is right. I just processed it wrong in my brain.

Thanks everyone for helping me get this far. This is a helpful forum and people stick around to see problems through

5 cheeseburgers for everyone involved.

That good news, Perry, glad to hear you got it working. Dave, it would be great if you could make a new tutorial on this topic. Can't wait for the new Neo Pixel hardware from EZ-Robot!

Happy this is working. Happier now others will have a solid tutorial that works.

I have 2 neopixels in my robot. I am experimenting with emotions and color patters. This is a great win for me. Maybe David will get around to making his plugin a fully functional control with tons of configuration options. He's busy so maybe between 1 and 3 AM next Tuesday.

4 Beers into the celebration of hitting my MRL functionality test. Now my guy does every function I had with the other software. Major milestone for me, The thing is, I don't really see the trajectory changing. I think it will just get better from here.

Happy Friday to all!

Glad that it is working for you and even more glad that you have a robot instead of a statue:)

I don't know when I will get back to plugin development. When I do, I will basically be taking all of the pieces of EZ-AI that I had worked on for a couple of years, and make them plugins. Some of it I won't have to write again due to some amazing advances in plugin development. I am sure that I will revisit the NeoPixel plugin during this time, among others.

A new Tuto has been published. Hopefully it will help out some. The issue with a Tuto like this is that so many people can make a small change that breaks things. Arduino is the most likely to do this, so maintaining it becomes difficult unless you have someone tell you that it doesn't work. Yours is working great because at the time you wrote it, it worked. This is what Bob faced and I know it is frustrating. You are trying to offer something to the community and then it becomes a chore or job to keep it up to date. The last thing you want is people to run into issues following something that you wrote to help people out. The problem is that you have moved on because yours is working so you don't have a need to revisit it over and over, until you do.

Bob, I want to thank you for putting up your Tutorial. It did help a lot of people and the NeoPixel questions did drop for a while. Hopefully my Tutorial can help as many people as yours did.

Dave, thanks for the kind words. The new tutorial looks good, except this line didn't copy; #include <Adafruit_NeoPixel.h> That's the same problem I had, there is another way to upload the sketch so it shows but I don't know how to do it.

Thanks Bob. Fixed now.