Q8, PMS SEND TO THOSE WITH ISSUES BLF soda can light

To look good, it probably needs the libc random() instead of my janky pseudo-random generator… and that might not fit in the remaining ~500 bytes. IIRC, the “faulty wiring simulator” used the better part of an attiny13 all by itself.

One of the things I did with it was to give it fading aftershocks… pick a random brightness then some short random delays then “aftershock” at half the original brightness, then a quarter, then an eighth…

Anyway, I was mostly just listing off the silly things I’d use the tiny85’s space for instead of, you know, anything useful.

Thanks Miller, Is a pleasure to be part of this Forum.

Max

Specialty. Use 2 tiny85s. lol …party light yay!

Thanks a lot for your welcome Miller!!

Uh, rim shot mode? :person_facepalming:

How about alarm clock mode? Like, tap-tap-tap (number of flashes) tap-tap-tap (after number of hours)

There are wake up alarms that slowly light up the room, I read it works great and people love it.
Heheh Tom when you move to a MCU with more coding space
Quadruple click and hold -> enter wake up alarm setting -> click number of hours
Light ramps up in 15 minutes
Heheh

Good news we received the droptest video!
Can’t wait to share it, will do it on my YouTube channel is gonna be the first video there.

OP updated with:

DROPTEST VIDEO

Good news, Thorfire did the droptest. WITH cells in it so more heavy and without shipping package, this is good result! (And just look at that tint when they click it on :wink: )

^ Imbedded:

It’s always good practice to do drop testing in sandals

Yeah sandals, casual clothing, green plant, light room, seems nice place to work :wink:

Looking good. I subbed to the YouTube channel.
I think its safe to say there will be very few, if any lights that are damaged in shipping.

I kind of want to see some other tourcher tests now. Like having the light on while frozen in a block of ice. I think Simon did a video of a s2 like that.

Impressive & entertaining video!

Who needs toes anyway?

Drop testing? I smell production hiding just around the corner :smiley:

Finances have been weird here but I might be able to get a second one in a week or two if things keep going as they currently are. And I’m not the strobe fan-boy. I can tolerate them as long as they are so well hidden that I can’t find them unintentionally :stuck_out_tongue: Liking the aftermarket pouches shown. Liking the “smoke grenade” nomenclature even more because this light is going to ‘smoke’ almost every other stock light :smiling_imp:

So are we still at the original price point ($40+ 10%)? I read some discussion earlier that it might go higher (and I’ve read every post in this thread which is why the “reads” are up). Most of the relevant discussion here has been well worth reading and many of the points brought up have been enlightening- the depth of thought found here on BLF is amazing. The irrelevant discussion has been entertaining as well.

I believe that everything has it’s place, and I believe the Q8 is going to find it’s place alongside the BLF A6, X5, M24, and B158 as a milestone of flashlight design and performance. Just gotta love it!

Phil

Yea, haven't looked at C lib rand() code support in a long time, but thought it was fairly big. Goin from 4GB embedded panel displays @work to 8KB MCU's is a little rough, and 8KB is a huge MCU

Haha that smoke remark makes me want a pouch like that :wink:

Yes this droptest was a thing on the checklist
Hope we get the prototypes soon, they are good and can be labelled “sample” and a go can be given!

Am I on everyones ‘ignore’ list?

Very excited to see the drop test, doing it with cells in makes me think they were pretty confident. After the first few drops I was chanting ‘open it, open it!’

The Miller, can you bump me from 2 light to 4 lights please?

Lol, like an idiot, I dropped a brick on my little toe a 6 months ago. Broke my toe.

anyone else see them switch the packages as he turned his back to the camera?
just kidding