wight catchup

Good summary Wight.

Now, please start contributing again, openly, and if you can, astonish us with something new, which is sadly needed.

I don’t really think that you have not been following things meanwhile. For 2 1/2 years.

Though this place can get far too intense and burn-out the creatives, which has happened rather a lot. Too much take, very little give. Or understanding. Only the most level-headed have stood the pace.

And don’t get sucked into the dark-side too badly (though the money could be tempting, if you play your cards wight). You might even get to see your name etched on every driver (again).

Condiments?
There is a hotsauce thread

Welcome back!

When you’re interested in drivers:

BLF programming Key

and
Look in Lexels signature for his drivers

Schoki started this thread:
LED drivers and Accessories you want, but don’t exist

Welcome back wight! I’m glad you’re able to return, and I hope you get to really enjoy BLF once again!

Nice to see you return :+1:

HQ - You caught me, I did peak! :blush: Not much though; I would estimate that I peeked once per 6 months on average. Could you provide relevant links to the boost drivers you are thinking of? I appreciate all the info!

SB - Thanks, it’s great to see so many folks I know still active on the forum.

duramax - I’m glad to be of service!

djozz - So I hear! The Emisar series from Hank seems very good. Someone mentioned the BLF Q8 and BLF GT in a PM; those look interesting and I’ll have to take a closer look at them. Are there any lights from the past couple of years that really stand out to you?

racoon city - Good to see you again!

Tom Tom - I would like to contribute again. We’ll see how it goes. My intention is that if I make any new layouts I would release source materials. I haven’t firmly defined my goals in that respect; I’d have to write everything down and find a license agreement which fits (probably a creative commons one). Making money on flashlights is not a priority for me today, I don’t think I’ll ever break even on my flashlight “investment”. When I do take bribes they’ll be in dark alleys and paid in unmarked flashlights. :wink:

joechina - That definitely looks like good catchup info, I appreciate the links!

DavidEF - Thanks, I’m very happy to be back and I hope to spend some time enjoying myself. :slight_smile:

EDIT:

CRX - :slight_smile: Are you drawing those UI cheatsheet diagrams?

No, just harvesting what’s available and sometimes editing in places.

Here are a couple of loneoceans’ boost drivers that might be of interest:

I joined BLF after you started your break, so I’d like to take this chance to say “thank you” for your previous driver work. I have some of the lights you helped make happen, and they are definitely a step up from the ones I had before that :+1:

Dope, I jumped to a conclusion on that. Thanks for putting it all together in one place.

They definitely sound interesting! I’ve only taken an initial glance, but I see that loneoceans has released the work under the CC BY-NC license which is great as well. I see that loneoceans also has an interesting FET tailswitch project: GFS16 - Battery Indicator Tailcap Light & 1mR FET Tailswitch! (Rev B)

Welcome back amigo!

I’m glad you’re back around CK; you took a long break yourself!

Hello. Who the heck are you? :stuck_out_tongue:

Some interesting Lamps in the making:

FW3A Thread

IMHO, the Firmware alone is a reason to get it.

BLF Groupbuy, a Sofirn AAA with high CRI yuji 5mm LED:
Sofirn C01 for $6
(First 165 Posts are only about Fenix)

Renderings

BLF Special Sofirn SP70
A big plunger style flashlight. With 2x 26650 a lot of runtime, with the size no heat problems
9cm Head, ca. 7.7cm smooth reflector
XHP70.2
UI is from Sofirn. No NarsilM or Andúril but similar for the basics.
SP70 thread:

Specs from Sofirn for Design 1: Sofirn SP70 Alone $50, PM for AMZ US CODE(LIMITED) - #543 by Sofirn (2018-08-14)

Well, if you’d read this thread, you’d know.

He’s White Ketchup! Duh! :smiling_imp:

Don’t forget the BLF Ultimate Lantern :slight_smile:

It’s probably worth mentioning that OTSM has not gotten any widespread use yet. It’s only implemented on a couple drivers, and is only supported by one firmware. Part of this, I think, was due to the overall difficulty of making it work right. Part was probably due to the relevant code being tricky. And a lot of it was probably due to a general shift toward e-switch lights around the same time. Not much need to measure offtime when power is only disconnected to change batteries.

Lately, when there is new hardware needing firmware, instead of writing entirely new firmware to fit the hardware, I mostly just add a few bits of code to FSM to support the new hardware. And then the FSM-based interfaces mostly “just work” on the new hardware. For an idea of how FSM changes or simplifies the UI code, here’s an example of implementing an Olight Baton interface using STAR as a base versus using FSM as a base.

Hey wight, nice to have you back.
I joined after you started your break, but I have seen the drivers you created. Hope you have a nice time here on BLF :+1:

Good to see you wight.

wight catch-up. Now that bought a smile to the dial. Welcome back. For those that don’t know wight also built a light or two that defied the laws of magic. Must go find the threads for a refresher.

Wight is so old ...

he wrote the original low/high sos/strobe next mode memory driver