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The lights

LuxLibre’s reference designs: complete, editable lights that follow the design rules and run the LuxLibre firmware. Each folder can be built without anything else from this repository. None of them has been built yet: every picture is a render and every light figure is simulated or estimated.

Current designs

FlashKa v0.7 Keychain light with a laser and a Bluetooth presenter mode. 99.2 × 20 × 18 mm, one 14500, about 1,045 lm. Boards drawn, order files ready; not yet built. Drawings · Pictures · Build guide	EDCO Prism A beam that is white or any colour. Ø28 × 83 mm, one 18350, about 1,250 lm. Concept: housing done, boards not drawn. Drawings · Pictures · Firmware	EDCO Mini Sealed keychain light with red and UV side lights. Ø22 × 73.5 mm (16340) or Ø19 × 69.4 mm, about 950 lm. Concept: housing done, boards not drawn. Drawings · Pictures · Firmware
EDCO v0.2 The bright one: an SST-40 at up to 5.7 A, about 1,760 lm. EDCO-18 (Ø26 × 97.8 mm) or EDCO-14 (Ø22 × 95.6 mm). Concept: housing done, boards not drawn. Drawings · Pictures · Firmware	EDCO v0.1 A plain sealed tube with USB-C in the tail. Ø20 × 93.5 mm, one 14500, about 966 lm. Concept: housing done, boards not drawn. Drawings · Pictures · Firmware	How they compare Every design against 14 popular lights of the same cell size: light at 30 s and after 10 minutes, throw, runtime, size and price, with the reviewers' measurements and sources. Make your own Start from the requirement sheet and the design guide, then see Adding a design below.

Older designs

Design	What it is
FlashKa v0.6	the previous FlashKa: three buttons with a glowing ring, the presenter mode. Its folder also holds the FlashKa firmware of v0.6 and v0.7 and the web pages
FlashKa v0.5	the first FlashKa: two LiPo pouch cells, an SST-20 at up to 2.2 A, a Class 2 laser, USB-C and Bluetooth

What is in a design folder

Every design folder has the same layout, so once you know one you know them all.

Path	What is in it
README.md	the design page: what the light is, specifications, simulated light and runtime, how it is built, cost, checks, open points
cad/	drawings (PDF, DXF, PNG) and 3D models (STEP), with a README that shows every sheet
assets/	renders and animations, with a README gallery
tools/housing/	the scripts that make the CAD, the checks and the renders
../firmware/boards/<name>/	the light’s firmware board header

The FlashKa folders also have kicad/ (the circuit boards), production/ (Gerbers, BOM, placement), order_files/ (upload-ready files for the shops), docs/ (build guide and notes), the build guide and hardware package PDFs and the parts and cost workbook.

Shared tools

The drawings, animations, lineup, banner and folder pages of the EDCO designs are made by the scripts in tools/.

Adding a design

A reference design folder contains:

• README.md: what it is, specifications, status, how to build it, cost, known limitations, licences (use the FlashKa README as the pattern);
• editable sources: schematic and PCB (KiCad preferred), mechanical CAD as STEP plus the native files or generator scripts, drawings with tolerances (MEC-8);
• production files: Gerbers, drill, BOM with manufacturer part numbers, pick-and-place (DFM-7);
• the LuxLibre board header in firmware/boards/<name>/ (FW-2);
• the filled requirement sheet, design log and review checklist (templates/);
• test reports once it has been built (docs/testing.md).

Design files are licensed CERN-OHL-W-2.0, scripts GPL-3.0-or-later, documents CC-BY-SA-4.0 (LICENSING.md).

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