The subject of this find by [Robert Fitzsimons] then is a slight departure from that norm, given that the SK6812 Mini-E is a WS2812 or Neopixel compatible multi-colour LED of a type that has been ...

To achieve this he created Fade, a custom programming language/framework for controlling LED animations from the ESP32. Fade is written for addressable RGB LEDs like the Neopixel/WS2812.