user27104: I was playing around with an Adafruit Flora and a strip of NeoPixel LEDs.  After uploading the sketch to the Flora (via Arduino IDE), the LED strip lights for about 1 second and then dims to a dull orange color for all the lights.  When this orange color appears, it seems to indicate that the Flora has crashed.  If I unplug the Flora from power and plug it back in, the LEDs light again for about 1 second and then it crashes again.
The time between boot and crash is short enough that I can't upload a new sketch.
So how would I go about rescuing the Flora?
Is there a couple pins I can jumper to put it into bootloader mode?  Or some other way of resetting the Flora so as to remove the offending code?

user612: 
42 pixels in the strand all set to bright white.

This exceeds the power supply capability of either a USB port or the Arduino's regulator.
Likely the circuit starts out working, then once the LEDs are all on drawing high power either a protective device such as a polyfuse / PTC fuse activates trips or the supply simply sags under load.  At this point the circuit either shuts down or starts misoperating, the ATmega may go into brownout protection mode, etc.
Disconnect power to your LEDs and you will probably find that the Flora is fine.  
You will need to use a suitable higher current power supply if you want to light more than a few pixels of this type at any given time.

27104: <p>I was playing around with an Adafruit Flora and a strip of NeoPixel LEDs.  After uploading the sketch to the Flora (via Arduino IDE), the LED strip lights for about 1 second and then dims to a dull orange color for all the lights.  When this orange color appears, it seems to indicate that the Flora has crashed.  If I unplug the Flora from power and plug it back in, the LEDs light again for about 1 second and then it crashes again.</p>

<p>The time between boot and crash is short enough that I can't upload a new sketch.</p>

<p>So how would I go about rescuing the Flora?
Is there a couple pins I can jumper to put it into bootloader mode?  Or some other way of resetting the Flora so as to remove the offending code?</p>
 612: <blockquote>
  <p>42 pixels in the strand all set to bright white.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>This exceeds the power supply capability of either a USB port or the Arduino's regulator.</p>

<p>Likely the circuit starts out working, then once the LEDs are all on drawing high power either a protective device such as a polyfuse / PTC fuse activates trips or the supply simply sags under load.  At this point the circuit either shuts down or starts misoperating, the ATmega may go into brownout protection mode, etc.</p>

<p>Disconnect power to your LEDs and you will probably find that the Flora is fine.  </p>

<p>You will need to use a suitable higher current power supply if you want to light more than a few pixels of this type at any given time.</p>
