Light up your LEGO buildings, spacecraft, vehicles, and more with super-tiny LEDs. Sets such as the Winter Village and Star Wars lines are just begging to have lights added. You can add lights exactly where you want using pre-wired SMD LEDs. Then, you can animate them to blink, dim, and flicker exactly as you like using CircuitPython.
Or, you can keep it very simple using an on/off coin cell battery holder breakout.
Other Resources
If you want to mount your QT Py to LEGO bricks, check out this great Ruiz Brothers guide.
And for other STEMMA QT board mounting, this guide has you covered.
While working on this guide, I found an excellent and very similar tutorial on BrickNerd! Check it out, especially for some more ideas on doing an amazing cyberpunk-style lighting setup.
Simple Setup / Testing
A coin cell breakout it great for quickly testing LEDs or for doing a simple on/off lighting setup.
LEGO Set
Any LEGO creation you build that includes translucent plates and bricks can be lit up with these techniques.
If you want to start with an official model, the models in Winter Village line is are excellent candidates for cozy lighting, as are any of the modular buildings.
The Razor Crest is one of the many, many, many Star Wars ships that light up nicely.
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