Night Mode LED Lighting Kits for LEGO® Sets

Night Mode LED Lighting Kits for LEGO® Sets

Light My Bricks' customers were hobbyists comfortable with soldering. Outerspace fit a micro-controlled PCB inside a standard 3x3 LEGO® footprint, with connector docks that physically can't be plugged in wrong.

Summary

Industry
  • Consumer
Expertise
  • Industrial Design
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electronic engineering
  • Systems Engineering
  • Firmware Design
Awards
Good Design Award

Project Details

Project Details

Challenge

A maker-market product for a mainstream audience

Light My Bricks had built its business on lighting accessories sold to hobbyists comfortable with soldering and wiring. Night Mode asked for the opposite: a lighting system simple enough for a first-time buyer to add to any build, without instructions turning into an electronics course.

Docks that only fit one way

Our engineering team designed a micro-controlled two-stack PCB inside a standard 3x3 LEGO® footprint, small enough to sit inside a build without stealing space from it. An STM32 controller runs the lighting effects, from flickering fire to emergency strobe, adjustable across three speeds. To distribute power safely, we designed fused connector docks shaped so a cable physically cannot be plugged into the wrong port.

Outcome

Night Mode shipped as a full product family, including the Eclipse cable clip and Flux battery pack, giving Light My Bricks a consumer-friendly range built for builders who had never touched a soldering iron.

Technical Insights:

Electronic engineering (Capability)

Two-stack PCB with STM32 micro-controller, fitted inside a 3x3 LEGO® footprint

Firmware design (Clarity)

Multi-effect LED sequencing, adjustable across slow, medium and fast frequencies

Industrial design (Creativity)

Fused, keyed connector docks that prevent incorrect or unsafe connections by design

Project image
The engineering team tackled the challenge of miniaturising complex electronics while maintaining safety and durability.
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Engineer soldering the PDB board of the controller
PCB board components separated
Controller plugged into various cabling
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LEGO car with the lighting kit installed
Wide view of a LEGO car with the lighting kit installed
Read of a LEGO car, with red lighting kit installed as a dramatic rear light
LED lighting kit package contents on display

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