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.
Interactive layer for maquette studios
Scale models that light up, respond to touch, and show live data.
I help maquette studios offer illuminated, app-controlled, data-connected models — the kind a client remembers — without building an electronics or software team in-house. You keep the craft and the client. I add the interactive layer.
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 — connected to live data so the model reflects real 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
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.
Residential complex model with tablet companion
A landscaped scale model of a multi-building development, paired with a tablet app that lets visitors explore the site beyond what the physical model shows.
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 info hotspots.
Interactive presentation table
A large touch-table system built around a live aerial view of the site — transport routes, walking distances, and nearby amenities, all explorable by touch. The kind of instrument a sales center uses to sell location, not just a floor plan.
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.
I work as a white-label subcontractor: your studio, your client, your brand. I'm the layer underneath.
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.