wight catchup

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

I remember back when I joined, people were talking about the missing “wight”. :slight_smile:

Here’s my catch-up. Maybe I am wrong. I think the hobby has changed. As I understand, years ago the average person expected Alkaline/light-bulb performance, so showing them a lithium/LED flashlight was a mind-blow. Everyone had fun.
Now there are lithium/LED flashlights on every retail shelf. And while it’s will always be possible to out-perform a mass-produced light, it takes more money and effort than ever to ‘wow’ the average person. The “Giggles” light for example is great for wow-ing people, but had to be built so absurdly big it’s hard to even think of an excuse to take it off the shelf.

Welcome back wight :slight_smile: :+1:

Before my time but the legend lived on. Welcome back!

Good to see you back Wight, while our times here did not cross your work was what heavily influenced the TA driver series (with the work of PD68 and DEL adding there share in the mean time of course).

I look forward to seeing what you cook up now.

Getting the OTSM working with some viable firmware would be nice for the time when clicky lights are required for example. Right now the only firmware that supports it is a bit too buggy to make widespread use possible and dealing with the OTC is a royal pain, having to deal with this right now actually and think I might just revert to a non-OTC firmware in order to solve the problem.

Welcome back!

Schoki has made a boost driver that will be very interesting once Lexel gets it running and on sale… :partying_face:

That is putting it very politely.

Flintrock disappeared quite a while ago, but whilst he was here, he had, lets say, a high opinion of his abilities, and derision for almost every one else who questioned some things.

And his code was, let’s just say, unusual.