Let's give this a shot.
One more thing to go wrong at startup, though?
This is how the AdaFruit people did it.
dots = adafruit_dotstar.DotStar(
board.D6,
board.D5,
3,
auto_write=True,
brightness=0.2,
pixel_order=adafruit_dotstar.BGR,
)Google has this whole
audio_helpers
thing with sounddevice.