FW3A, a TLF/BLF EDC flashlight - SST-20 available, coupon codes public

I like your older keyboard.

I’d like to see the new one.

Pleeeeease! :smiley:
Does the absence of labels reduce the impact of the ‘Any’ key?

Yup. If you wanna do a group buy for custom keycaps (which usually costs more than $100) you have to give em your money first then wait up to a year (or more) to receive them. Right now there’s a group buy going on for keycaps where the chinese manufacturer hasn’t responded to messages in over a month.

I don’t have China experience, but there may be some generalization of West vs. Asia here. My experience working in a Japanese office is that there is a cultural barrier as well as a language barrier, and the cultural one is far more significant to our understanding, often resulting in those processes that don’t seem to follow common sense, as you describe. Our concept of a strong leader who can take executive control when the rabble can’t agree isn’t universally shared outside of the West. And again, I don’t know about China, but I saw meetings being held late into the night over the smallest, most trivial (in my opinion) stuff when I was in Japan because they wanted everyone to feel like their voices had been heard. When I suggested they just let a leader take all the evidence into consideration and make a suitable decision, or even to take an office-wide vote and go with the majority opinion, they looked at me like I didn’t have any common sense myself.

^ not following common sense is the short answer, these questions have come up before and in the long answer I certainly brought up both the language and cultural barrier. Still even for a chinese company with their chinese way of doing things I think that following a “western” approach to developing new products would be beneficial overall.

…I think, it is an opinion.

Big pre-order list, am I too late to get in on this?

No you are not.

Your timing is actually perfect.

Nope.

Can you please add me to this list?

rough translation from TLF forum, looks like things are moving ?

Short update

- Lumintop is working again

- ToyKeeper has summarized all the problems of Proto4

- Neal has forwarded the list to Lumintop

- The emitters have been confirmed again: XP-L HI 3D (~ 4875K) and LH351D 4000K 90CRI

- The optics have been confirmed: Carclo 10511

  • ToyKeeper’s 0105 firmware should be used

I’m sending my beamfoot prototype to @ andreas0401 this week. My Beamshotstrecke will be available again in 14 days*

I, too, am interested in getting in on the pre-order list. I’m interested in purchasing three of them, undecided on tints.

I’d also like to be added to the pre-order list. One of each emitter option.

Thanks mortuus!

+1 … :+1:

Is the summary list of forwarded issues available somewhere in this thread?

Messing around with an idea for a dual-purpose clip thats only possible due to the FW3A’s geometry. Default is a deep carry, with a cap clip on the tailside. The clip goes through itself, having to pull it out to get a cap-bill through. The sketch is exaggerated to make the design obvious. The first bend coming off of the body wouldn’t create a gap between it and the return bend

Reading these posts will probably give you a general idea.

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@ PeasFull …………… hmmmm

Interested in 1 with the LH351D 4000K 90CRI.

There is one part I am not familiar with however. It says in the original post that “An unusual feature is the electronic tail switch. This allows the light to do much fancier things than a clicky switch, yet retains the ergonomic benefits of a clicky tail switch.”

What type of extra things does the electronic tail switch allow us to do that a clicky switch wouldn’t?

A mechanical tail switch is on or off and uses “off time” or “on time” to determine the action you are making. An e-switch can have hold functions and utilize single/double/triple/etc.-click operations without the light turning off at all.

If you’ve used any of the Emisar or Fireflies lights, its allows for an updated version of that UI vs something like Bistro or Biscotti where its just taps to do a quick power cycle that also changes modes.