Giveaway is now closed! Thank you to everyone who submitted a disruptive flashlight idea!

And the winner is @Winged_Hussar Congratulations!! I will send you a DM to get the shipping details sorted out!

List of entries: cedled jewinthebag KingBoo Winged_Hussar BeerGeekington MashedPotatoJeff solrize Adair21 jerv rule1n2 vanderstilt@reddthat.com

Things on Lemmy are going great! I am enjoying seeing the posts and the expertise that folks are bringing to this site. To celebrate, I’m going to give away some AA/14500 battery holders and some TS10 diffusers!

As always, you can get these items from me or download them to 3D print them yourself!

What you can win:

  • (2) AA/14500 snap battery holders
  • (3) TS10 diffusers (Clear, Glow in the dark, Orange)

How to enter: Comment your most disruptive flashlight idea.

Here’s my disruptive idea: Flashlight controlled by capacitive touch OLED screen. Swipe up for brighter and down for dimmer. Haptic feedback tells you cues (low batt, light turboed, stepdown, etc).

Rules:

  • Must be in USA
  • Giveaway is open from now until next Saturday, July 15th, 2023
  • 1 winner will be selected at random
  • Winner must have some kind of post history in /c/flashlight

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  • Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Introducing… Accelerometer based Andruil 2.0

    Why click the button 14 times when you can merely shake, flick, and draw the action you want your flashlight to do~

    By holding the switch on your new Hank Light with accelerometer, you’ll be able easily turn on or off your flashlight as well as many (8) other functions!


    Wooo! So excited, thanks for running the giveaway! I’ll be sure to share photos upon receiving :)

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    Interesting prompt. Um, some sort of standard clip-in footprint for LEDs, so you can swap LEDs like changing lightbulbs. Then you can have a pack of 519As in all flavors and doneness and change them at will among all your 3535 lights. Trickier for higher voltage LEDs, but it would be fun.

    Thanks for running this!

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    RNG-controlled brightness. Every button press is a new roll of the dice.

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    I wonder if you could add a lug to the base of the diffuser that the wrist lanyard could thread through, so it dangles at the end of the lanyard. That acts as a keeper f6 the diffuser when not in use, and as a GITD locator for the flashlight in the dark. You’d use the flashlight to charge up the gitd of course.

  • rule1n2@lemmy.world
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    A detachable charging base. As it, the light would have a detachable charging base that either allows USB-C charging or magnetic charging. Some prefer USB since it’s more readily available, but you can change the base for magnetic charging like many olights. OR remove the base completely and forgo the charging abilities and have a shorter/smaller flashlight

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    1 year ago

    Sound based intensity.

    A scream is brightest but will dim as the volume falls to a whisper.

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      1 year ago

      And now I have “Careless Whisper” playing on repeat in my head… the Sergio Flores version…

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    Probably not very original but I’d love USB-C or Bluetooth programming paired with an app. These click sequences are getting out of hand.