Back in 2012 I posted This thread about an alternative way to use attiny 13A/7135 drivers with higher voltage series cells for series LEDs. At that time a few others were doing Zener mods and none of the Oshpark boards had been done yet.
In 2013 I asked Mattaus to design a 10mm driver using the Attiny13A and one 7135. He had created other boards by then and so had others so the Oshpark projects thread was born.
A bit later Brian(WarhawkAVG) asked me to collaborate with Mattaus and Comfychair on another board that combined the Attiny13A with an FET and the BLF DD family of drivers was born. I hadn’t really contributed much in the design of them but I did suggest using the LFPAK56 for its small size and high current capability. We ended up going with the larger FET because Comfychair who was doing the lions share of the testing had a lot of them to work with.
With the concept proven wight began developing designs that took advantage of the smaller FET size to make single sided drivers and that has now progressed to multi-channel drivers.
All throughout this time a bunch of truly inspired people(literally a who’s who of BLF) have been developing and tweaking the code for the 13A mcu to take better advantage of the new board designs.
We now have a member who (RMM, Mtnelectronics) who has set up shop and along with much of what one needs for modding sells many of these designs as well as coming up with new boards on his own.
DrJones, TomE, ToyKeeper, I can’t keep track of all the people writing and developing code and there are a slew of people now with more joining in adding their 2 cents. I didn’t start this but it sure has been fun to be a part of.
Edit- this post is not about claiming any credit, that all goes to Matt, CC, Alex, Brian, and all the others that pushed to get where we are now. It is just how I came to be involved and my perspective on the process.