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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I think that all of us who are already here just need to start posting more content (myself included), and that will draw more people in. Lemmy is now the home of my Anduril 2 diagrams, but I also need to update and port over some of my old posts from Reddit because some of you may get some use out of them. The more we post, the more information we have available, and that has enormous value. I personally love to see mod posts. @Adair21@lemmy.world is one of the most gifted modders out there, and he shares his mods and builds here. It's absolutely incredible the sort cool stuff folks are doing to their lights. It's also great to see "measurement" posts where folks share the results of testing out different emitters (CCT, CRI, lumens, etc.), cells, optics, entire lights, etc. That's all extremely useful information for the rest of us. And let's not forget about good old fashioned New Light Day (NLD) posts where folks simply share info about their latest haul. It's fun to chime in on those, and share your own experiences and mods for those lights. The bottom line is that the content doesn't magically show up for us. We have to create it ourselves.


  • Yeah, there are a couple of things I'm working on (very slowly):

    • I'm converting the diagrams over to Inkscape from Visio for a couple of reasons: 1) Folks don't have to buy a license for Inkscape since it's open-source, and 2) Inkscape saves the diagrams to the SVG format which should allow folks to scale them up and down without losing resolution.
    • I want to use version control on GitHub so that folks can select the version of the diagram that goes along with the version of Anduril they have on their lights. Not everyone has the ability to flash to the latest version.

    It's a slow process because I'm using Inkscape for the first time and I've just been busy. But any updates will always be posted here.









  • I originally saved the file as a PDF in Visio, and as you noted, the results were not good. Then I tried printing it to PDF in a couple of different ways, and I think the result is much better. Take a look at it again, and let me know what you think. The Simple UI diagram will always be smaller because that’s how the source is. When Visio saves it to a PNG file, it chops it down to just the canvas size needed for the diagram. Then when you print it, it gets enlarged to cover the whole page.