Brickstuff LEGO Tardis Roof Light and Sound Add-on Kit Guide

Product Guide: Blue Box Spaceship Light and Sound Add-On QuicKit


INTRODUCTION

These instructions describe how to install and operate the Brickstuff Blue Box Spaceship Light and Sound add-on QuicKit.  This kit requires the LEGO® set #21304 (Doctor Who) from 2015.  Our kit includes a replacement roof for the spaceship with a pre-mounted white LED light.

Your Brickstuff kit includes the following items:
  1. One pre-assembled spaceship roof made using genuine LEGO® elements, with white LED pre-installed.
  2. One light and sound controller with speaker
  3. Two warm white Pico LED lights with 15cm (6") cables
  4. One large pushbutton switch with plug
  5. One 50cm (20") connecting cable for the pushbutton
  6. Mini sticky discs
  7. One 3xAAA battery pack with on/off switch (batteries not included)

INSTALLATION

This section describes how to install the lights, connect to power, and operate the light and sound controller.

INSTALLING LIGHTS

You can decide whether to install the two warm white LED lights or not.  They are intended to be mounted inside the space ship, in the TOP of the frames of the two front windows (facing down).  When the spaceship is taking off or landing, the lights flicker.  When the spaceship has taken off (and presumably is in another dimension), the lights are OFF.  When the spaceship has landed (returned to this dimension), the lights are ON.

Installing the two lights is optional-- the kit will still work if you don't install and connect them to the controller.

If you would like to install the two lights, you can install them in the frames of either the front or back windows as shown in the photo below:

The photo shows the locations where the two LED lights can be mounted (again, in either the two front windows or two rear windows).  Use one sticky disc to attach each LED light to the TOP INSIDE of the window frame, with the LED light pointing down (into the window frame).  This will ensure the window is lit up without having a bright spot showing in any single place.

CONNECTING LIGHTS

Next, you can connect the lights to the main controller.  The illustration below shows the controller and its connections:

There are six outputs on the controller.  Outputs 1-3 are for the roof LED light (you can connect the light to any output 1-3), and outputs 4-6 are for the two interior LED lights (you can connect the two lights to any output 4-6).

You can also see the power connection in the upper left corner of the controller board-- connect the battery pack to this plug.  When you've added batteries and turned the battery pack power switch on, the green Power LED light should turn on.

The illustration above also shows a blue Status LED light-- this light is not active in your kit, and will always be off.

OPERATING THE CONTROLLER

The Button in the illustration shows the small pushbutton switch on the controller.  This button has three functions:
  1. Pressing the button and releasing quickly (called a "Short Press") will trigger sound playback.  If the spaceship had previously "landed", it will take off this time, and you will hear the takeoff sound play.  If the spaceship had previously taken off and is in another dimension, pressing the button will trigger a landing, and you will hear one of two different landing sounds (one short and one long, selected at random).  When landing, there is also a small chance that the spaceship will experience an equipment failure, in which case you will hear a "breakdown" sound instead of a landing sound, and the spaceship will remain lost in time.  Press the button again to re-try landing successfully.
  2. There are five volume levels (1-5).  Double-pressing the button will change the volume level, cycling from one to five and then back to one again.  With each change of volume level, you will hear a spoken voice announce the level.  The volume setting is preserved even when power is turned off.
  3. The controller has two sound modes: one where the sounds play only when the button is pressed, and the other (called "Autoplay") where sounds are triggered automatically at random intervals of between 20 and 60 seconds.  To change modes, press and hold the button for one second, then release (called a "Long Press")-- you will hear a spoken prompt announcing if Autoplay mode is active or inactive.  Again, when this mode is inactive, sounds will only play when manually triggered via a press of the button.
If you would like to control these functions at a distance, you can use the included black connecting cable and the large button to connect to the plug on the controller directly next to the small onboard button-- this will allow you to control the functions from the big button instead of having to open up the spaceship each time you want to make a change.  The large button has double-sided tape mounted on the back, so you can peel and stick the button somewhere outside the spaceship.

Installing the external button is optional-- you can leave it disconnected and change settings using the small button on the controller instead.

RUNNING WIRES

You can run the wires for the battery pack outside the spaceship by passing them under either the front or back doors, as shown in the photo below:

Depending on how you plan to display your spaceship (and how you mounted the two LED lights), you can run the battery pack wires out the front or back of the spaceship, under the doors.  If you run the wires out the side of the ship where the doors open, this is easy-- just close the doors carefully with the wires passing underneath.  If you run the wires out the other side of the ship (where the doors are permanently attached), you can lift up the section of the ship until the wires can pass underneath, then carefully re-attach the section.

When running wires under bricks or plates, make sure to always run wires BETWEEN, not on top of, studs.

If you choose to connect the large external button, you can run its wires alongside the battery pack wires.

FINISHING UP

After you have run the wires to the outside of the ship, you can carefully gather up the speaker, controller board, and all LED light wires and close up the ship.  It is ok to leave the controller and speaker hanging freely inside the ship.  Make sure none of the wires stick out any of the sides, and then you can attach the roof section with pre-mounted LED light to complete your ship.

Turn on the power, and your ship should now be operational.  If you have manual mode selected, you won't hear sounds until you press a button (either the small button on the controller board or the large external button).  If you have Autoplay mode selected, you will hear a takeoff or landing sound play at random intervals every 20-60 seconds.

THANK YOU

Thank you for purchasing this Brickstuff product!  Your support means a lot to our small, family business, and it allows us to wake up every day and continue doing the work we love: making really cool things to take your models to the next level!

If you have any questions or problems with this product, please send us an e-mail and let us know how we can help.  You can also comment directly about this guide below.

If you make something really cool with this product, please share on social media and tag us (@brickstuff on most platforms) so we can see your awesome work!

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