Tiny LED lights that are both wireless and battery-less are wonderful accessories for scale models, LEGO-compatible brick builds, and table-top gaming. This guide shows how you can add these delightful LEDs and their inductive charging coils to your designs.

You'll also learn how to build a shelf base and back stand to conceal the induction coil.

Parts

Video of a white woman holding ten bare LEDs in her hand. She slides her hand over an inductive charger, lighting up the ten small LEDs.
Adding LEDs to anything makes it 5x better -- its a scientific fact! But when you have LEDs, you've got wires and power supplies and all that stuff is kinda annoying. What if you...
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Top view video of a Black hand turning the knob on the adjustable power supply.
Put your Snap! cassette on and sing along to "I got the power!" with this super useful power supply adapter where...
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Video of a white woman holding ten bare LEDs in her hand. She slides her hand over an inductive charger, lighting up the ten small LEDs.
Adding LEDs to anything makes it 5x better -- it's a scientific fact! But when you have LEDs, you've got wires and power supplies and all that stuff is kinda annoying. What if...
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5V 2A Wall Wart switching power supply
This is an FCC/CE certified and UL listed power supply. Need a lot of 5V power? This switching supply gives a clean regulated 5V output at up to 2000mA. 110 or 240 input, so it works...
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Angle shot Female DC Power adapter - 2.1mm jack to screw terminal block
If you need to connect a DC power wall wart to a board that doesn't have a DC jack - this adapter will come in very handy! There is a 2.1mm DC jack on one end, and a screw terminal...
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Materials

To build the wooden enclosure you'll need the following:

2 x Wood enclosure
10" wood pallet plaque
  • Thin EVA foam sheet or felt sheet
  • Staple gun and staples
  • Electrical tape or Kapton tape
  • Uglu squares or Glu Dots
  • Hot glue gun and glue

Tools

  • Drill with 1/4" and 3/8" bits
  • Hobby knife

This guide was first published on Oct 05, 2021. It was last updated on Sep 20, 2021.

This page (Overview) was last updated on Sep 20, 2021.

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