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This donation option is being made available to anyone who would like to see gbalight.com continually grow and expand with new modifications, more research and consistently new, useful content.
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A more lenghty explanation follows should anyone care to read it :)
After considering a suggestion from a reader of gbalight.com, I've decided to set up a "donation" option.
As many of you know, gbalight.com is not a company, it's just me(paul), and I am only one person who handles everything on the site which includes updates, posting submitted material, editing pictures and countless other maintenance tasks. I've put absolutely countless hours into this site and into experimenting and researching different lighting options in search of the "perfect" external light for the GBA(just as many of you have).
I'm very sure that many video game accessory companies frequent gbalight.com. I've only recently started to consider holding back information or possibly not posting detailed instructions for future modifications. I REALLY don't want to do this because originally I put up gbalight.com to help EVERYONE out by giving plain, easy to follow, FREE instructions that would allow readers to modify a less than satisfactory product into an acceptable, usable GBA light (which for unknown reasons seems to be an impossibility for major companies to achieve).
I post a lot of experiments and information(written by myself and others) that many companies can easily exploit for their own research and development purposes. An example: July 7th of 2001 I posted a review and explanation of a type of LED diffusing lens(sent to me by Huw) that would possibly result in a better product if implemented into a light modification. Then around November or December of 2001 a "certain unnamed company" released a new light shield that just happened to use a white LED and a diffusing lens! Was it a coincidence?
Maybe, but I honestly do not think so considering that gbalight.com has received over 37,000 unique hits since the site was originally put online in June of 2001.
The truth of the matter is that third party companies are profiting, or at least have the potential to profit from the material, research and development that is being posted free of charge at gbalight.com. We, however, as a community are not.
So if a few readers decide to contribute to the future of gbalight.com, we will all benefit in the end.
Any contributions will be greatly appreciated and will start to open up new possibilities for gbalight.com. Two possibilities that I've been giving a lot of thought to lately are: 1. Paying to host gbalight.com on an ad-free server :)
and 2. Possibly holding a monthly giveaway of a FREE modified light :)
I will personally Thank each and every reader who contributes to the future of gbalight.com, no matter how large or how small their contribution is.
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