this thread is long not only because of off topic, it has been active for 13 months :laughing:
8000 posts over 400 days = 20 posts a day, not really an excessive amount, give it a rest pleeeeeese.
Cheers David
Here are some pics, how I did it: http://www.taschenlampen-forum.de/media/albums/skyray-king-srk-xhp50.1836/
Now that is a neat thought! 
We do need a design change though, to keep up with the increasing lumen-demand, that will take a few extra months, so the post-count in this thread goes up, then that new design will not make the needed lumens, another upgrade, more time, more posts, upgrade :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: :weary:
Heheh I think most posts are on topic but now not a lot can be done but wait hence percentage off topic is higher
However it does increase the chance of us missing things that are serious
Like where are the last two Q8 lights that are still not in?
I’d feel better if you folks with the off topic posts (like this one too) weren’t in effect forcing The Miller to read each one. As he is diligently trying to keep a list of folks that want this light and also monitor/read things that might need to be looked at as it relates to the Q8 proto, you are making him wade through all the off topic stuff that pops into your head. And that, my friends, is just wrong.
Thanks again ALL you guys pitching in on this project. Damned impressive.
@TK: not only do i enjoy your beautifully worded digressions, i also watched that “saber juggling” video a dozen times. I especially like the last throw-and-catch-behind-the-head-with-left-hand move.
It reminds me of my teenage years when Bruce Lee was all the rage. I made myself a nunchaku out of two broomstick bits and spent quite some time practicing. I can’t remember how many times i hit myself. Fast forward a few decades, i visit a friend who was into martial arts and owned a ‘real’ nunchaku made of hexagonal pieces of really hard wood and probably weighed with lead or something. Just handling it hurt my palms and although i was tempted to try a few moves, i just placed it back on it’s stand for i was really afraid to break a bone or worse.
How long and heavy is your practice ‘sword’?
I’d rather watch TK do the workout in her dress. 
Just over a meter, and just under a kilogram. It’s a machined aluminum hilt with electronics inside, and a really hard thick plastic tube for a blade. The balance point is about where the two pieces meet. It’s like a heavier version of a kendo shinai, and the warranty covers a year of full-force combat.
Broken bones are indeed a valid concern. I managed to break a finger the first week I had it, due to sparring without armor. Also kinda lost an arm that day, or I would have if it had been a real plasma blade. This was only about 10 minutes after getting hit, before the bruise had a chance to really develop:
… Timbuktu?
Tom E, in the next version of Narsil you should add a Marco Polo mode so we can find missing lights.
Your firmware is so amazing sometimes you say things like that and I’m not 100% sure whether you’re joking or not 
So tell us, is this part of your training as a minor deity, or are you preparing for some sort of light saber exhibition/competition, perhaps part of a Cosplay convention, if such things exist?
Ouch! That'll hurt.
Those new fangled tag locator things would do the trick - TrackR as one example. Funny - I know a guy who's got a west coast company who came out with locator tags years ago for luggage - think he was ahead of his time, or at least ahead of the curve of the better tech/cost/marketing. GPS or audio and visual queues, or both.
Hmm driver update with gsm slot, antenna pads, GPS chip
Design new package with antenna connections, design big shipping box with antenna connections
Adds a few cents in shipping and simcard with data, but you could really see where it is then
Unless it is rejected for a box with tons on outbound communication probably is not something shippers want
And TK that is quite the damage for a goddess
Auch
Looks like TK have been a misplaced fighter ( lightsaber ) in the just over world championship in medevil fighting held here in Denmark this year.
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Thanks for sharing that SparkyDK!
If at all possible, please put me down for 1 Q8.
Thanks!
Can I please be put in for a second item. I am 1066 on list. Thanks Miller.
Sign me up for a second one please! I’m #704.
GPS is tricky. It is, quite literally, the world’s biggest clock. It takes the form of a bunch of satellites orbiting in known paths, all going “TICK… TICK… TICK…” very loudly in perfect unison as they broadcast individually-identifiable pings with timestamps. If you know exactly what time it is and very precisely how much time elapsed between receiving each copy of a single “tick” due to the limited speed of light, you can figure out where you are.
But I wouldn’t expect anyone to do realtime orbital mechanics calculations on dozens of satellites simultaneously, with corrections for general relativity, on a cheap 8-bit integer-only single-core processor, and still remain responsive enough to measure microsecond differences in lag between the visible signals, and then use that lag measurement to triangulate the device’s location precisely.
Okay, maybe I knew a guy who once did exactly that (Lightman, funny how things always seem to revolve around light)… but most sane people instead buy a chip with all the relevant parts already implemented. Because GPS is almost as much of a pain as date math.
If anyone needs a reminder…
- The first rule of Date Math is: You don’t do your own date math.
- The second rule of Date Math is: YOU DON’T DO YOUR OWN DATE MATH.
See this video if you want to know why. Programmer Barbie says “Date math is hard!”
In any case, GPS is a similar story… especially on cheap, under-powered processors. You really don’t want to do your own realtime relativistic orbital mechanics and micro-lag triangulation calculations. It’s like that long lonely winter down at the South Pole when you got really drunk one night and decided to run around the pole wearing only boots in –75 C weather — it may seem like a good idea at the time, but after a few days of coughing up blood you realize you were horribly, disastrously wrong.
BTW, does anyone know where to get boots with built-in heaters? Asking for a friend.