WOW! Lots of beautiful photos there!
Found a source for my wallpapers 
Yes, fantastic stuff stephenk!
OMG this stuff is top notch. I’m really interested in how you created the “blue fog” effect on some of the pictures.
I have a feeling the blue fog are a LED mesh like the ones you drape over stuff at x-mas that is being pulled along the ground
No that’s not it i think now, like politicians say you have a stand until you take a new one.
It cant be a mesh as that would create a much more massive appearance of the “fog”
The blue fog on the stairs is now my background photo. I’m also curious as to how it is generated
I’m guessing the blue fog is el-wire that is just wiggled around on the ground.
The effect is created by waving around a cool white EL wire. Purchased from GearBest, and cut down to 2m in length.
I assume its a dual take, or 2 photos overlaid ?
Any actual Q8 news? Any word on springs from Thorfire? Any missing v3 prototypes appeared?
When they have something they will be forthcoming.
It is forthcoming:
No. I only use single exposures. Balancing the exposure is the tricky bit! No Photoshop, only adjustments in Lightroom. The EXIF data is viewable if you are interested.
So I shouldn't ask?
Of course you can ask! But now you know the answer if you feel like asking at a later date.
Heck yeah… ask away. :+1: … If you have any good “off topic” chatter or info throw that in too. It has been pretty dead on the thread the last few days. 
We gotta keep the post count up ya’ know……
Silence from ThorFire as of late. I'm getting ready to commit to the current NarsilM firmware release, so only other issue is the springs. Think the Chinese holiday delayed things. Also the ThorFire guy we deal has to translate and communicate with the engineering team at a remote location, so it can take a while for the back and forth. I'd speculate some of that is goin on. Plus I would think they woud be checking sourcing for springs, and the holiday made that difficult I'm sure.
Just installed NarislM on a OTR M3, stock light:
Updated it from a XM-L2 U3 3D to a XPL2 V6 3B (from KD). These alignment pieces fit the XM-L2 size reflector opening perfectly: http://www.kaidomain.com/p/S024677.8_4mm(D)-x-0_9mm(T)-White-Plastic-Insulation-Gaskets-for-Cree-XP-L-10-pcs. They look nothing like the pictures though in the listing - weird.
Using an IMREN 16340 (from IMRBatteries), got 5.5A at the tail (clamp meter), 1,460 lumens @start and just 24.6 uA parasitic drain (224 uA w/switch LED on).
All running NarsilM w/smooth ramping and all the features the Q8 has: temperature step down, switch indicator LED, lockout, LVP, blink out voltage and temp, blink at a ramping level to show output channel your running on, blinks: 1: 7135, 2: bank of 7135's, 3; FET), plus all the mode sets and configuration settings the Q8 has 
Hey, that’s my EDC light. Did you piggyback a second driver board in there? I can’t tell as I’ve never had mine apart. This sounds like a great mod. If you go into more details on another thread, please post a link here so we can check it out.
Hey Tom, I’m curious - how does the temperature stepdown work? Do you have a thermistor on one of the pins, or is there a relationship between the temperature and the current into the LED that you can measure from there?
The ATtiny25/45/85 have a built in thermistor, so I'm using that. It's notoriously off calibration from MCU to MCU. This one in the M3 reads bout 20-22C high. I'm using -19C as the calibration offset.
Here's the Photobucket album on my M3 mods: http://s1054.photobucket.com/user/TomE2012/library/Custom%20Mods/OnTheRoad%20M3.
The driver has to be sanded down, trimmed, shaped to fit - it was nasty, but works. Someone like DEL could probably design one to match perfect to the stock, then buy them at OSHPark. That would be better all around - easier and better thermally.