LEGO vintage radio plays any music using smartphone and voice assistant

Retro returns with dimexart’s lego vintage radio

A blast from the past is what Mehdi Rustamov aka dimexart brings as he stacks up LEGO bricks and creates a vintage radio that can play any music using a smartphone and its voice assistant. The designer captures the retro look of a vintage radio, from its volume knobs to keypads, all of them functional. The vintage radio model is made up of 1,130 LEGO pieces, and at the beginning, dimexart only made an object version of the retro-styled radio. In January 2024, he modified the rear part to crack it open like a cassette player, allowing users to slide in their smartphones, ask their voice assistants to play any music, and make the vintage radio fully functional.

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Working LEGO knobs and volume keypads

Aside from the working knobs and volume keypads, Mehdi Rustamov aka dimexart spent his time designing the front speaker grill, which is one of his favorite parts of the LEGO vintage radio. He also made sure that the working knobs with the moving red pointer behind the glass would move and created cog wheel tuners inside the vintage radio so that when the user spins the front parts, the red pointer swings back and forth. For the designer, he can picture the user placing the LEGO vintage radio on their shelf, table, or mantel, serenading them as they go about their daily tasks, all the while playing their favorite music in the background.

a blast from the past is what Mehdi Rustamov aka dimexart brings as he stacks up LEGO bricks for the vintage radio

Dimexart is a fan of all things vintage

It took Mehdi Rustamov aka dimexart about a month to create the main body of his LEGO vintage radio and make its knobs and volume keypads work. It wasn’t challenging for him to choose a retro radio as his design since he’s a fan of all things vintage. But this specific design also brought back fond memories of him from his childhood, especially the one where his grandfather would listen to the radio that resembles the LEGO version he created. Looking back, he was enamored by its shape, buttons, and knobs, and knew that he wanted to recreate that vintage radio when he began a new LEGO project. Today, he has brought his vision to life, making it functional as well. As of publishing the story, his LEGO vintage radio is up for support on Ideas LEGO.

the LEGO vintage radio can play any music using a smartphone and its voice assistant