How to use Excel to Animate LEDs! Arduino + WS2812 LEDs

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

I actually just created this excel utility to help create some cool animations for a halloween costume... It just generates the function calls to set the bytes properly in the LED array. Here's the links mentioned:

Original how-to video on the WS2812:
https://youtu.be/VAa4duqMrgs

Then something in the Arduino Core broke that sketch, so I fixed it in this video:
https://youtu.be/ev-Di5GVQ3Y

The Excel file I used:
https://kevindarrah.com/download/arduino_code/16x16_utility.xlsx

The CODE:
https://kevindarrah.com/download/arduino_code/WS1812_V4_ANIMATION_FOR_VIDEO.ino

That 328 board for the costume here: https://www.tindie.com/products/14948/

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