There used to be the BLF project donation fund (link), and there must still be a few hundred dollar leftover. But it was run by The Miller who has not been seen for 5 months now. But as far as I know him, the fund will still be there alright, if only we can contact him about this. I will write him an email.
To be clear, the money thing came up because of a comment that software doesnāt take much time or effort. It was not a request for money, just a way to quantify effort.
As for the lantern, I already have most of the code written for itā¦ I just havenāt tested it on actual lantern hardware yet. The tint ramping thing works as far as I can tell, though.
There is still money needed to fund Lexel for making the prototype driver, right?
In any case, I mailed The Miller if the fund still exists and can still be addressed, that is at least a nice thing to know 
If anyone knows how to contact 1dash1, he might also have something set aside, since an earlier fund was never used or sent.
So that money was never spent on you either? It sounds like BLF-fundraising does not work very well, does it? At least it makes members organising it disappear. :person_facepalming:
Yikes! Thatās a lot of money donated to just sit in somebodyās account! 
Maybe he got swallowed up by a volcano fissure under his house. Ya never know
I am interested.
I am not sure why they need Eagle files, the Gerber files and BOM can be given to an PCB factory to make the boards
I can mail you also an excel table with the component positioning for assembly that may help,
but a good fab can easily extract the nessesary positions with their programs from Gerber files and a worker checking that
or going the most easy way, let produce a fab from Gerber the board with solder paste stencil and a warker manually equip the prototype with solder paste and parts for reflow
I donāt know much how the programs work for those types of files, but i remember Barry mentioning that they needed .pcb files instead of .gbr, ( as you said its two different programs Eagle & Gerber)
guessing those funds were set there & used for past BLF projects like the A6, Q8 & GT?
I created a BLF account just to show my interest and for being put in the list.
I am also very interested in the USB charging mod. Does anyone know of any similar mod for the regular BLF Q8? Iām not skilled to do it myself, or solder/unsolder anything, but would happily throw my money if a USB-capable tube was available. Alternatively, what would be even better, would be a way to charge batteries without removing them from the holder. Not sure if this exist or is doable. I have a MF04 and a BLF Q8, these are my first multiple-18650 flashlights, and easily recharging just by unscrewing them to get the holders and connecting them be very convenient.
added brno602 and koubak to the interest list at numbers 1006 and 1007,
interest list sorted by entry number
Interested in getting 2, depending on final pricing.
Barry sent me a couple of the first images of the BLF LT1 lantern design their engineers did based from the drawings & info i sent them. It looks really good & very close to the design perimeters i sent them.
Iām certainly interested! Been looking for a good lantern for a while now.
Looking good!!!
Looks good, but it looks like the middle section could probably be shortened. Lots of empty space in there.
Are there multiple flats spots on the body ? Is it just for a place to splash a name ? I was hoping like the new Q8 they would just do a 100% knurling and be a bit more discrete with make and model # .
I want one in beige ,camo, plaid ,pink and paisley