Whaaat? Who has removed the picture link in my above post? There Gimli was, asking an important question concerning the above referenced cheap knives who wouldn't have lasted even 5 minutes in Knife or Death. :-D
If you wanna check it out, click/tap (not safe for work ;-) warning).
The Manker Godmes was a Bluetooth controlled flashlight that responded to sound, or at least blinked to music. Ahead of its time. No longer in production, though. I just thought I’d mention a cool light most folks don’t know about.
One question. Do we have a driver available on BLF that would be able to drive 2x 3V or 6V leds (seperatly and/or together)?
Or 2x tripples with SST-20 leds (again seperate and/or together)?
Only gathering information at the moment.
The BLF lantern is two separate banks of 7135’s with a custom Anduril firmware that can do one channel or both channels combined to mix tint. I think Lexel even created a variation with a FET mode too but the current LT1 doesn’t have any FET.
So 2 channels but only with 7135 banks. The perfect driver for the thing i had i mind would have a 7135 chip for low on both leds and a fet for full power for both leds. So 4 channels in total. Would it be possible to do something like this with the attiny chips we usually use? Light would be a e-switch light (with lighted switch controlled by the mcu).
I am not sure if the attiny chips we usually use have enough output pinns for something like this
It’s technically possible with ATtiny85, but not very good. Since the ATtiny85 has only three hardware PWM outputs, the fourth output (or all of them) needs to be PWM’d by the firmware. Better chips are available, though. And some of the BLF members are working with some of those better chips. ToyKeeper has been working on a ATtiny1634. I can’t be sure, but it seems somebody said that the BLF LT1 uses that. It has more pins, more hardware PWM channels, and other features compared to ATtiny85.