Good morning… After a short night … barely awake here goes
Great, Toykeeper thank you for all what you have done and doing, for BLF as a whole, for the Q-team and personally the nicest UIs I now own are made by you!
Thanks for this action organisers!
Josh, would you kindly post that video with you giving that thumbs up
How can somebody not be in?
That also means I am pretty sure much more people then just 8-10 will want to contribute and who am I to deny that
$2,50 now and I up that to $5 if the $100 is not reached within 48 hours after this posting or $10/if needed.
I know from the SB Meteor action this can go fast. And would propose to set a time and then decide the 100 by the number of people chipping in, is it 10 people (not likely) it is 10 a pop but if it’s 50 then only 2, this gives all the chance to contribute and I am surely OK with contributing $10.
I would go even further and get enough for more, at least one for Pilotdog68 and Tom E, or just 1 extra for one of them because you know they deserve it and are too humble to ask for it!
And now for some coffee with the sky slowly getting lighter
If you really want to send stuff, send hardware I don’t have yet so I can write code for it.
I already have a way to measure lumens, but there are a bunch of types of lights I haven’t written code for because I don’t have the hardware. For example, I don’t have a tiny25 e-switch light or anything with tiny85 or a “smart” lighted tailcap or a dual-switch light or a FET+1 e-switch light or most of the recent new-and-improved driver designs. A better light-integrating tool is nice, but it doesn’t really make much difference to anyone. Filling gaps in supported hardware makes a difference though.
Ideally, it’s good to cover more than one gap in a single device, to keep my collection of beheaded lights small. I’m not exactly a head hunter, but these keep accumulating:
Seems obvious to me that there will be no problem reaching the $100 goal. Why cant we just extend the list & not have a ‘ceiling’ and just send all donations over the $100 goal for the light sphere to TK and let her buy what she needs to help her help us……
Edit…… I just saw the original post has been edited and it seems it would be easiest just to send Tk anything over the $100. I am sure she knows best what she needs most and has some sort of ‘game plan’ on what order she needs it. That way she can just order what she needs when she needs it.
I think if this thread is kept open and there is no limit set ……… it will allow any new members(or others just finding the link) to show their appreciation and it will provide TK the supplies she needs for continuing her invaluable ‘research & development’ .
I say we divert $15 to Tom E
Not for him but to cover the costs of a Q8 Narsil prototype driver and shipping to Toykeeper.
She asks for a AT85 based light and we know she has at least 1 srk that accepts it
I’ll happily throw in $5. The minimum because I am not in good financial straits right now, but I really want to say thank you in a small way for all TK’s contributions.
$15 from me for TK’s test-lights/hardware, for Toykeeper, for Tom’s costs, for development progress in general on BLF (I really like what has been done over the few years I’ve been here).
No no no no no… Seriously, don’t send me money. It’s an abstract concept to me and doesn’t convert easily into concrete things of value. I wouldn’t know what to do with it. The things I really need either cost way too much, like enough cash to never work again, or are priceless, like time and motivation.
Maybe I’m weird, but when someone gives me an Amazon gift card or something, it tends to go on a pile of things-to-do until I find it expired years later. But if someone gives me a hand-written letter, I cherish it and read it over and over. I care less about your donation and more about your participation.
If you really want to help: make something cool, build a few, and send one to me to write the code for. Do the parts you’re good at so I can do the parts I’m good at, and we’ll make something together. Or even better, make something cool and share it with everyone.