LithoBox | Customizable Gift Photo LED Music Box Lithophane | Customize With Your Own Photo and Music to Create the Perfect Gift!

--LithoBox--

Create a perfect unique gift for your loved ones!

LithoBox is a unique photo frame that allows you to display your own picture as a lithophane and play your own audio along with illuminating the lithophane.

A lithophane is a 3D picture that turns into a high-res black-and-white image when it is illuminated from behind!

--Features--

-Press the button on top of the box to illuminate the lithophane photo and play an audio file!

-Swap out the lithophane picture with a different one to easily customize your LithoBox and keep things fresh!

-Add your own custom audio files to the SD card that will play when the button is pressed. It could be music, a personalized audio message, or a sound effect.!

-Get creative with different photo and music combinations! Create a funny joke LithoBox or preserve a heartfelt memory with your LithoBox!

-Adjust the volume of the audio!

1. Filament for the box, in whatever color you'd like
2. White filament for the lithophane
3. 5V white LED strip lights (roughly 40cm needed)
4. MP3 player board
5. Push button switch
6. 3 AAA battery holder with switch 4.5V
7. Any size micro SD card
8. 3 AAA batteries
9. .stl file for the lithophane box, from here

Go to this website: https://lithophanemaker.com/Framed%20Lithophane.html

Upload the photo you'd like to use. Make sure to change these two settings:

1. Depth should be 3mm
2. Base Height should be 5mm

All the other settings should be correct by default.

Feel free to crop your picture to your liking. Then enter your email and click "Create .stl"

The file will start downloading immediately.

Extract the zip file that was just downloaded from the Lithophane maker website. Import that .stl into your slicer of choice. I will be using Bambu Studio.

My suggested printing settings:

1. Print the lithophane vertically (this one is essential)
2. Use 100% infill density
3. Change order of walls to outer/inner
4. For layer height, I've found 0.2mm works well. If you want even higher quality you can go down to 0.08mm, but I'm not sure it improves the final product very much.

Then go ahead and print the lithophane!

Buy the .stl file for the box here!

Import the .stl file for the lithophane box into your slicer. You will need supports, you can see my suggested settings for Bambu Studio in the attached screenshot. I recommend that you do not overdo the supports, since they can be a pain to remove, especially on the inside of the box. Tree supports are much easier to remove than standard supports.

Add your AAA batteries to the battery pack. Feed the battery pack wires through the small hole in the back of the Lithobox. There are 2 holes back there, one is for the battery pack's switch, the other is for the wires. Make sure to feed through the correct hole.

Clarification: in the photo, you'll see that the speaker is already in place. You don't need to do that yet, I am just using a completed Lithobox to make this tutorial, so I don't want to completely disassemble it.

Insert the switch button into the hole in the top of the box, then screw the nut (that comes with the button) onto the button on the inside of the box.

Connect the wires from the speaker to the screw terminal on the MP3 player board (red to SP+ and black to SP-). Press the speaker into its slot, the MP3 board into its slot.

Cut the LEDs down to the length you want. Remove the adhesive backing on the LEDs and mount them around the perimeter of the inside of the box.

Now you need to solder all the wires together as follows:

1. Solder the black wire from the battery pack to the black wire of the switch button.
2. Solder the red wire of the switch button to the BAT- pad on the MP3 player board.
3. Solder the red wire from the battery pack to the BAT+ pad on the MP3 player board.
4. Solder the red wire of the LEDs to the BAT+ pad on the MP3 player board.
5. Solder the black wire of the LEDs to the BAT- pad on the MP3 player board.

This will turn on the MP3 board and the LEDs when the button is pressed.

Add one or more MP3 files to a micro SD card, then insert the SD card into the MP3 player board. Now when you turn on the Lithobox, music will start playing!

Here's some additional information about the MP3 player board from the manufacturer, if you want to change volume or use multiple mp3 files:

Features:

1.Support MP3 format, playing power on automatically, playing state red LED indicator update.

2. Support U disk (be tested by 32G), TF Card (be tested by 16G) play mode; power on default TF card mode, if the TF card does not exist automatically jump to the U disk, and two kinds of equipment are installed, you can manually set the playback mode, please look at the key operating instructions.

3. Keys can be adjusted up and down track switch, volume + -, pause / play, mode switching, for details please see the key operating instructions.

4. Can be set button single /whole song ," default power up the whole song cycle, replacing the circulating mode by pressing the "Repeat" key.

Instructions:

The "Prev/V--" key : " short press "is switching to"the last song ,"long press" is for "volume decreasing"

The "Next++" key : " short press "is switching to"the next song","long press"is for"volume increasing "

The "P/P/Mode" key :"short press"is switching to "play / pause", " long press"is U disk and TF Card mode's selection

The "Repeat" key :"short press" is switching cyclically "single / song" (no press function)

Note:

1 "long press" time is about 2S.

2 If you use U disk mode, some suggestions of 5V power supply, some U disk doesn’t support 3.7V power supply.