Teardown Of A 2026 LEGO SMART Brick
Hackaday • • technology
Key Points:
- LEGO released a new SMART brick in March, featuring sensors, LEDs, NFC, Bluetooth, and a custom ASIC designed to enhance interactivity and enable mesh communication between bricks.
- The SMART brick is typically sold only within ‘Smart Play’ sets, but individual units have appeared on eBay, prompting teardown efforts despite the brick's sealed and inductively charged design.
- Teardowns revealed components including a speaker, microphone, RGB LEDs, photo sensor, a Bluetooth 5.4 SoC (EM9305), and a 16 Mb Winbond SPI Flash memory chip.
- The custom ASIC, marked DA000001-04, remains largely a mystery, although its flip-chip design allows easy die inspection, showing a possible C
