Controllable lighting
Individually addressable LEDs behind every window. Control brightness, color, and animation from a phone or tablet — occupancy simulation, day-to-night transitions, or highlighting a specific wing, floor, or unit on demand.
You build the model. I make it come alive.
An interactive layer for maquette studios: controllable lighting, touch and app control, and on-screen site context — the details that turn a presentation model into something that sells. You keep the craft and the client; I add the layer underneath.
What I do for your studio
Three capabilities, delivered as a single layer on top of the models you already build.
Touch & app interfaces
A companion app that turns a static model into something a visitor explores — tap a building to see floor plans, availability, or specs. Guided presentations your sales team runs from a tablet.
Live data & presentation systems
Large touch-table displays with aerial site context — transport links, walking distances, and points of interest. Where the client wants it, a live feed can keep the model in sync with real-time availability.
Same craft you deliver today, with a layer that makes the model do something in the room — and gives your client's sales team a reason to bring buyers to the table.
Work
Interactive model systems I've designed and built — from the electronics and firmware to the app and the on-site integration.
Illuminated residential block — app-controlled
When I moved to the Netherlands I didn't have a local reference project yet — so I built one. Every part of this is mine: the model, the electronics, the firmware, and the app.
A 1:75 portiekflat built to demonstrate the interactive lighting layer. 24 individually addressable LED zones behind the façade, driven by a custom mobile app. Runs occupancy simulation, smooth day-to-night lighting, and can highlight individual units live — the foundation for a real-time sales-status display.
Garantiya — infrastructure presentation model
A residential development model mounted over a large embedded display, with a tablet that switches the screen between short films of the surrounding area — transport links, schools, clinics, and everyday amenities. The model sells the neighbourhood, not just the building: a visitor taps a category and sees how the development connects to everything around it.
Riverside development — model + interactive tablet
A presentation model of a riverside residential development with a companion tablet: tap any building to open its details through on-screen hotspots.
Flagman — residential complex with tablet companion
A landscaped model of a multi-building development, paired with a tablet app that lets visitors explore the site beyond what the physical model shows.
How we'd work together
A simple, low-risk way to add interactivity to a project.
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You share the model or the plans and tell me what the client wants it to do.
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I design the interactive layer — lighting, app, or data system — and agree scope and price with you.
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I build the electronics, firmware, and software.
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I integrate and test, and hand it over ready to install — or install it with you.
Pre-designed solutions
For common needs I already have a proven control module and companion app — so you're not paying for R&D or betting on a from-scratch build. It's faster, cheaper, and it already works.
- Typical turnaround: from 1 week — agreed scope to installed — depending on complexity.
- I'm on-site for installation and commissioning myself, so nothing breaks between my bench and your client's showroom.
I work behind the scenes: your client stays your client, and everything I build ships under your studio's name.
About
I'm Leon Nikonov, an independent developer based in Voorburg, the Netherlands. I combine fullstack software with hands-on electronics — the full path from a bare circuit and firmware to a finished app. I've built interactive, illuminated, and data-connected models for residential developments, and I now offer that as a service to maquette studios here.
Building a model that needs to come alive?
Tell me what you're working on.
The fastest way to reach me is email or WhatsApp — a photo of the model or the plans and a line about what you want it to do is enough to start.