I made some progress on the status indicators and attached three Neopixels for testing. I'm controlling them via NodeRED where I'm faking the Status JSON file from Elite Dangerous so I can play with the flags a little bit.

I'm really happy with this, because with the same logic I can basically drive as many LED as I want as long as I provide enough power to have all LED going at the same time. This Proof of concept works just fine.

Originally posted at https://beko.famkos.net/2022/01/16/using-a-neopixel-as-status-indicators-of-elite-dangerous-for-my-simpit/