Thread: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
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2013-05-26 , 17:51
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Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Simple application, lets call it "flashlight-ultra", which would repeatedly light diodes in "flash" mode, and a small slider that would control frequency of stroboscopic effect.
Well, actually, that should be trivial to implement, from what I've seen. There's almost no work involved in playing around with the Flash LED hardware. The only thing I would worry about is that I really don't have any clue myself as to the limits of the hardware...

Again, It's just a wild idea, and I know you're, probably, already pretty busy with Pierogi - it's just something that I thought might be useful for some people. Maybe good candidate for upcoming Coding Competition, too?
Nah, this would only take a few minutes. In fact, it only took a few minutes. A new pasta product, "Lanterne", is now making it's way into the extras-devel repository; it's pretty much just a tiny experimental app that allows you to turn the Flash LEDs on and off in "torch" mode, and to run the high-powered flash as a strobelight (for as long as you hold down the "strobe flash" button). I've got spin-boxes set up to let you play with the various parameters.

To any folks out there who want to play with this app, be warned! I've tried to limit the parameters to values that should be safe, but I make no guarantees of such. Use this app at your own risk!

Just be aware, that if you decide to do it, you're, probably, going to get feature request of programmable morse code blinker, pretty soon
Eh, that probably wouldn't be too hard to do either.
 

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