Man Creates Open Source Flashlight

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Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @11:03AM 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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Why would I what a reprogrammable flashlight? (Score:5, Funny)

by Missing.Matter ( 1845576 ) writes: on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @11:05AM (#36362518)

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

Re:Why would I what a reprogrammable flashlight? (Score:4, Funny)

by vlm ( 69642 ) writes: on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @11:35AM (#36362836)

I meant using it as the hilt for a sword.
Great, just what we needed, a new euphemism for that activity.

Ha!!! (Score:1, Funny)

by koan ( 80826 ) writes: on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @12:40PM (#36363778)

I initially read it as "open source fleshlight"

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Why would I what a reprogrammable flashlight? (Score:5, Funny)

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Ha!!! (Score:1, Funny)

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