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Man Creates Open Source Flashlight

Posted by samzenpus on from the things-we-don't-need dept.

DeviceGuru writes "Not content with revealing the source code to his mom's banana bread, two-time BattleBots champion Christian Carlberg has developed an open source flashlight. Carlberg first achieved notoriety shredding competitors' robots with Minion's 14-inch saw blade on BattleBots. Now he's all fired up to begin shipping what they say could be the 'world's first open source flashlight.' But why in the world would you want a reprogrammable flashlight?"

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  1. Why would I what a reprogrammable flashlight? by Missing.Matter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well one that looks like this, I can think of a couple uses for it...

    1. Re:Why would I what a reprogrammable flashlight? by vlm · · Score: 3, Funny

      I meant using it as the hilt for a sword.

      Great, just what we needed, a new euphemism for that activity.

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      "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
  2. Ha!!! by koan · · Score: 1, Funny

    I initially read it as "open source fleshlight"

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