Can you limit/filter repeaters?

Something tells me this is either going to be really easy or just not possible, but I have a repeater on my homepage functioning as a ‘latest projects’ panel. I would like to only show the latest 3 projects from a collection, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to limit it to 3. If the collection has 30 items then 30 items will show. Is there a way to do a dynamic filtering of collections on a per section basis, or will I just have to build and update that section manually? Thank you kindly for any assistance.

You can configure the number of Items to display and the sorting, through the dataset that is connected to the repeater:

Brilliant. I had a feeling I was missing something simple. Thanks Ido!