Sorry, Just trying to help out. Obviously my advice was not needed. I wont try that again.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I appreciate it. Trying to help is almost always a good thing. 
I’ve just had a really weird day, been a little emotional. Two people died this week and two cool new projects started and I was sick a couple days and the thank-you gift ninjas got the jump on me and some other things are going on, and it’s a lot to process all at once. And after a joke about light sabers I discovered there’s a whole community built around those in much the same way BLF is built around flashlights, and some of what they make is actually pretty awesome, so instead of reverse-engineering an API I need to use for work I find myself paging through fascinating shiny things on another forum.
And run-on sentences. I may be a little frazzled tonight. 
Enjoy the moment TK and soak it up, nothing lasts. Dale ended up with a lathe purchased for Justin so if you end up feeling encumbered just re gift it. We all end up receiving more than we contribute anyway.
Yep, that’s a sure sign of mental fatigue. Take care, we’ll think of something to do with this activity.
Maybe it will turn out to be amazing. 
Make sure to get the programming cable for that light sabre 
Wow. I just watched that video and the dude was getting choked up over his new toy. Good thing there’s no jealous girlfriend behind the camera.
I am recalling that scene from ‘EuroTrip’ where only one girl showed up to the nude beach, and she gets swarmed. haha.
Since we’re talking about light sabers I’ll just throw out that one of my flashlight dreams is to have a detailed, realistic looking light saber that of course is actually a flashlight but with an insanely intense laser like beam. Something along the lines of MEM’s work but with a UI developed by the one and only ToyKeeper. :money_mouth_face:
I’ll put $10 on this.
The closest I’ve gotten is a modded Jax Z1; it’s great as a light saber in the fog… especially when I go out in my wizard robe.
I set my lux limit about there though, 250 kcd, roughly twice as intense as direct noon sunlight. I have a list of cool things which are too dangerous for me to own, and really intense lasers are on the list.
I honestly wish I could contribute to this but I’m currently in need of a 21mm or 22mm driver to replace the ld-29 in my convoy l5 because I’m not satisfied with the 3A out or l-m-h and l-m-h-strobe-sos. Upgraded the u2 1a to u3 2c and did spring bypasses but the limits remain. TK’s bistro is impressive in reading about it and I respect both her participation and work but why isn’t it more readily available? Surely with the influence or demand of this community it should be possible for more options to be available.
BLF-A6 is like, if you have a bunch of people together for an event and need to provide food, and nobody can agree on what they want, it’s usually safe to order a bunch of plain cheese pizza. It’s not great, but almost everybody is at least okay with it.
Bistro is pretty much the same, only you can opt for pepperoni if you want. Still pretty bland.
But apparently everyone seems to think both are really good because they’ve spent so long eating nothing but sauerkraut.
I’m hoping that the firmware repository can become more like one of those world food markets where everyone can get something they really like — a wide variety of things appealing to various tastes instead of a single bland dish people don’t mind.
Great. It’s 11:20pm in small town California, I just got home from work, and now I’m hungry for pizza.
Awwww, pics please
K.
Hmmm, was that the design theory behind sticking 7 brightness modes in the BLF-A6? Because nobody could agree on what brightness levels they wanted?
I think we are forgetting another important reason why it’s popular:
SIMPLICITY
It’s easy to learn
It’s easy to use
It’s easy to remember
+1
I’ve been pointing my niece, a young programmer/software engineer, to your work.
She’s been liking it.
“ToyKeeper wrote:
The closest I’ve gotten is a modded Jax Z1 ….
Details, in the relevant thread, would be most welcome. I’d rather imitate than pioneer …
It’s a really easy mod. Or it was, back when the empty hosts were readily available. Take the empty host, add a de-domed XP-G2 or a XP-L HI, add a FET+1 driver, give it some firmware. Maybe bypass the springs if you’re feeling ambitious. It’s basically the same as the CPFi Cometa, only better and made at home.
There are other zoomies which work well too, or can end up even more intense, but I liked the Z1 for its simple compact form.
Cool, maybe she can help fix the gender imbalance in free software. Last survey I saw said the whole field is 97% male.
However, there have been some pretty awesome women in computing history. Margaret Hamilton, for example.
Ish. Over the course of several thousand posts about what people wanted, some patterns emerged. Some things, almost everyone agrees about. Other things, people were split pretty evenly. Two of the “agree” topics were visually-linear mode spacing and a “low” mode close to 10 lumens. However, the biggest “disagree” topics were moon mode, mode memory and how many total modes there should be. So BLF-A6 offered options for two of the most popular mode groups and a toggle for memory.
There were other things people couldn’t agree about, but not quite as much and there was no room left. So those things waited until a later project with a tiny25 chip for more space.
It probably would have been possible to fit a bit more using a guppydrv approach where all options are flattened into preset config packages, but I’ve been kind of trying to avoid duplicating DrJones’ closed-source work. He does this for profit, and it’d be awfully rude to go and make a free version of something he depends on for income.
Or one better. There is a large array to work with, and the user just sets the startPosition and endPosition.
Something like this hard coded, where numbers are percent of perceived output:
[1,100,50,1,25,50,75,100,60,40,10]
So if someone wants just high, med, moon (100,50,1) they set “2” for start, and “4” for end.
If they want to reverse that, they set “4” for start, and “2” for end.
For ‘moon, low, med1, med2, high’… they can set “4” and “8”.
Notice I eliminated the zero-based notation for user sanity. The array could be larger for even more choice, but the usage is exactly the same.
That sounds awesome to me. I take full credit for the idea