Powered Up

Powered Up is LEGO's current control system (2018+), comprising hubs (Move/City/Technic/SPIKE), motors, sensors, and lights, all programmed over Bluetooth Low Energy using the LEGO Wireless Protocol (LWP) rather than an optical link. Its optical parts are mainly sensors and lights — with one exception (the Color & Distance sensor can itself emit IR, below).

Optical parts

Sensors (input):

• Color & Distance Sensor (88007) — the Boost sensor. Emits light and reads 6 colours + object distance ~5–10 cm (IR reflection). Its IR emitter can also be driven to send Power Functions IR commands (e.g. from Pybricks) — so it can act as a genuine optical command output, the one exception to Powered Up being BLE-only. Connects to Move Hub (88006) / Hub (88009).
• Distance Sensor (SPIKE/Technic) and earlier WeDo motion sensor — IR reflection proximity.
• Color Sensor (SPIKE) — emits R/G/B, reads colour + reflected/ambient light.

Light (output):

• Light 88005 — a pair of LEDs, hub-controlled. Output only, not comms.

Relation to this vault

All of these are sensing or lighting, controlled by the hub over BLE — there's no general optical command/programming channel like VLL. (The one exception: the 88007's IR emitter can be programmed to send PF IR, as noted above.) Exact emitter wavelengths aren't officially published (community: visible for colour ID + near-IR for proximity).

Links

• Color & Distance 88007 (Rebrickable) · Light 88005 (Rebrickable · доп: LEGO.com)
• Tooling spanning old→new bricks: BrickLogo, lego-blockly.