Strobotorch

Strobotorch is a flashlight signaling app. It is built to request Android torch API behavior transparently while keeping safety and device variance explicit.

The app is not a hallucination tool, not a meditation or psychedelic device, and not a medical or brainwave-entrainment product.

Start Here

• Flashing light safety and evidence background
• Project boundary and Brain Candy separation
• Source library and citation notes
• In-repo safety policy
• Android API limits
• Audio reactive mode
• Fractal dimension bias and analysis
• Device reports

Project Boundary

The flashlight should be pointed away from people, animals, traffic, reflective surfaces, and anyone who has not consented to possible exposure. High-rate point-away controls are for signaling and device diagnostics only. Requested Android command timing is not the same thing as measured optical LED output.

Strobotorch is also an independent Android tooling project for visual signal encoding, visual signal decoding, torch diagnostics, and camera diagnostics. It is separate from Till Holzapfel’s scientific-advisor work for Brain Candy.

Position In Mesmer Prism

Strobotorch sits near Mesmer Prism’s patterned-light and perception projects only because it needs rigorous safety language and source boundaries. Brain Candy is the clearest project to distinguish it from: Brain Candy concerns a separate state-shift and experience-design line, while Strobotorch concerns Android APIs, device behavior, torch event recording, camera/luma diagnostics, and visible-light signal experiments.

This position does not change the app’s purpose. Strobotorch remains a flashlight signaling and diagnostics tool. It is not part of Brain Candy, not sponsored by Brain Candy, not a Brain Candy research deliverable, not an induction system, not a state-shift platform, not a hallucination experiment, not a wellness device, and not a clinical intervention.

Public Repository And License

The project is intended to be public, source-visible, and MIT licensed. The license covers the Strobotorch source and documentation in this repository; the third-party Android, Kotlin, Gradle, AndroidX, and Jetpack Compose dependencies remain under their own licenses.