GODYGA / TorchEye design discussions with the community
Personally I wouldn’t find that useful. I don’t need to measure things all that often and when I do I know where there’s a handy tape measure. Also, I don’t know how accurate you’re planning, but if I do need to measure something it has to be to the millimetre.
Adding a second function doesn’t necessarily make a tool worse, but unless it’s something you’ll actually use and that works well enough to be useful it is just adding unnecessary cost.
I can recommend the Trustfire Mini X7. But usually I prefer a standalone rangefinder.
Unless you’re a carpenter, rug-layer, or otherwise would use something like that, I can’t see any use-case for that.
I just replaced my ancient tape measure when it crinkled one too many times and sucked the tape inside it, never to be seen again.
New one has a rangefinder built in. Chonky little thing, but I never even used the rangefinder thingy, because all I do is measure window openings, screens, and the like.
I personally would not find it useful.
Honestly, no.
While I’m not necessarily saying that flashlights should be strictly single-purpose, that’s the closest available option with how the poll’s worded.
Yeh, that’s why I didn’t even vote. No 3rd option.
Nope, nor I think flashlight should be single purpose, I would like to see a function that would help me find it in a room or a house, similar to old whistle beepers, I used to have one on my keys almost 40 years ago, maybe even more. it looked like a keychain, but if you whistle it would respond by beeping and flashing. so I knew where my keys were if I lost them at home. This could be not only useful but fun, however sometimes it would react to noises, and beep when I was not whistling, but it was really old tech, i’m sure today it could be improved, you could make it learn certain sound or keyword , so its responses are more accurate
This specific implementation involves too much computational and engineering complexity, but I like the idea.
I’m thinking some sort of optional beacon-type setting that blinks, say, once every minute or something. Not bright enough to be a disturbance or drain too much battery, just bright enough to be noticeable in a dark room.
Though now that I’ve said it out loud, I think lighted buttons and aux lights have this function covered. In fact, I swapped the tailcap LEDs/resistors on my Convoy lights and color-coded them to indicate which emitter it has and what the state of charge is on the battery. This mod has been very useful for me when I need to grab a specific light in the dark.
But back to the OP: I think a flashlight that doubles as a rangefinder will just end up being subpar at both, and not meaningfully better than just carrying both devices separately. Maybe more useful would be a very good rangefinder with a secondary light+laser to let the user see what they’re aiming at.
Not really, it is actually pretty easy, ever heard of clap on clap off?
I actually have several clap on/off devices, but what they don’t do is
Learning to respond to a certain sound or range of sounds is much harder than reacting to just a volume threshold.
If the indicator beep is activated just by a volume threshold rather than a specific activation word, it has the potential to become annoying if activated by random ambient noise.
It’s ok, I’m sure people who actually work on this, will find a solution.
Actually they already have, There is an option in iPhone that will respond to certain keywords by completing certain tasks, as well as Alexa, and google home, So if it looks too complicated for you it only means it is too complicated for you.
I wasn’t saying it’s impossible. My point was that recognizing a particular sound is significantly more computationally demanding than detecting a volume threshold. It’s just a statement about the inherent difficulty of certain computational tasks compared to others, nothing to do with my ability.
Devices like iPhones, Alexa, and Google Home have processors and software stacks designed for speech recognition, whereas most flashlight drivers use tiny low-power microcontrollers and don’t have a ton of space to spare. Those are very different hardware constraints. Not to mention how much implementing this would drive up the cost…
The Olight Ark series already uses a rotary selector ring, it works really well. It doesn’t need a screen.
Sofirn HS21.
Wurkkos HD05.
The premise of your question is wrong.
Just because you can do two dozen or more functions with anduril 2 doesn’t mean you need to understand more than three or four click sequences to make the flashlight function for 99% of what you’re going to do.
Click to come back on wherever you left it.
Press and hold to make the flashlight come on in the lowest mode. Double click for turbo. Once on, press and hold to ramp up or down. Let go and repeat for opposite direction of ramp. Three clicks for battery check if you want. And who doesn’t want.
The flashlight can be made waterproof.
I do not want a flashlight with a screen.
I don’t need dials.
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The flashlights that I carry (EDC) are already as compact as they can be for the amount of runtime and brightness and throw or flood that I am willing to deal with on a daily basis. Adding a laser of any sort for any function is going to mean something has to give size wise or function wise on the existing platform.
From past polls my memory is that near 50% of the people here are not willing to EDC anything larger than a 14500 or AA sized light.
Anybody that needs to measure room size distances on a regular basis probably has a tool belt or a tool bag.
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We all carry a tool that can measure a room, I phone has measure app, I’m sure android has something similar too. and every phone now has a flashlight. so when someone needs to measure once in a blue moon, and same with use of a flashlight, they already have the tool.
I agree with @Oli . I have close to 30 lights with the Anduril OS. On most of them, after initial customization ( a one time process) I haven’t needed to do anything more complex than what one would need to do with something like a Sofirn or Convoy light to use them daily. Some people see the diagram and think it is too difficult to use. But that describes everything that one “COULD” do if they wanted to. Actually using the lights for day to day use, couldn’t get much simpler. The typical user can do everything that they will ever need to do, without doing anything to the configuration the light comes with, just by learning a very few basic button presses.
The complexity of the diagram is due to the miracle of designing an OS with a single button for input, that can accomplish all of the things this OS is capable of.
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