8th Old Lumens Challenge is CLOSED !!!

I wish I’d had more time to spend on mine. Both the light and build thread are not as good as I planned to make them. But with my new daughter I just haven’t had enough time to do more. So a couple of elements just didn’t get refined or reworked the way they should have.

Thank You Jason aka pinkpanda3310 for taking on the ” Old Lumens Flashlight Modders and Builders Challenge 2020 ” :beer:
And to everyone who entered the contest finishing or not, We enjoyed your company and friendship :smiley:
I hope later this year more members will join in the challenge. What is the worst thing that could happen ? You may just have fun! :beer:
I have had fun building a light from scratch by hand. :smiley: Not sure what to do for the next challenge, but the wheels are turning. :wink:

Many thanks, Jason, for running this years contest. It has been great fun. :sunglasses:

Big thanks to the judges for investing their free time for BLF. :+1: Thanks also to the sponsors for the great prizes. Nice to see how every participant gets a great prize. The NlightD T90 will be my first SBT90 flashlight. :partying_face:

I think if I wouldn’t have had the motivation to finish my modified flashlight for the contest it would be sitting around unmodified until next year. :innocent: The prize you get is of course a nice bonus but a great part of the reward is that you made an awesome flashlight that you can’t buy anywhere. :person_with_crown:

For next year, may I suggest that we have the countdown clock again that CRX had last year? It makes it easier to know when the time is finished.

Yes , thankyou Jason , and to those that took their time as judges . This challenge gave me the push to finally attempt to machine a flashlight . I had a lot of fun , and learned quite a bit.

I’ve thanked before, and I’ll thank again, for the organization and the judges too, now! :beer:
Also, it was nice to be in the contest again, a place I never thought I’d be in when I joined the forum.

And last, a word to the people entering the contest, it was nice to see what you’ve done and the new creations arising from our small flashaholic world :wink:

Hope to see you all in the next one, and others wanting to join, give this a try, it will be fun :wink:

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The last two years give me a valuable lesson, this year is even more.
Thanks for the judges and participants for this fun and challenging contest.

Looking forward for the next one!

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I concur :+1:
Truth is, I was completely unaware the end was near that last weekend.
Jason posted this on the 01/01/2021 ” Last weekend to finalize your builds ”
I assumed the finish was the last week of February like last year. :person_facepalming:
If that post was not seen, I would not have finished, we were babysitting the Grandchildren.
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It is completely my fault that I was not paying attention to the jan5 deadline, but I was saved by my little son who on exactly 5 jan in the morning asked to me when the big red lamp that had been sitting idle on the dinner table for weeks was supposed to be finished? I looked it up, it was today and it wasn’t a work day so I could spare a couple of hours and was able to finish it in time (under the stern eye from the woman in chief).
My son demanded a reward and so it earned him a bag of sweets.

Ergo, the OL-organisation has no obligation whatsoever to baby-sit the contestants, but it would help some of us :person_facepalming:

Congratulations to all contestants and thanks to the judges and organisers !

Apologies for the missing time stamp thingy. I had trouble posting it right at the start. I asked sb for help and i thought i had it sorted but I must've made an edit that deleted it or something...???

Anyway go check out the people's choice poll :-)

I was upgrading the hard drive on my raspberry pi and broke the fstab, so it stopped booting. My pi also basically runs my entire network, so I broke a bunch of stuff. I salvaged part of the network configuration without fixing the pi (so TVs and chromecasts and cellphones would work… everything on the wifi, which is not my PC) and realized I was running out of time to finish the light, so I stopped and added the ground strap and took some pictures. By then I’d been asocial for too long and was gently nudged back to some family activities, and it took a while before I got back to fixing the network. I’ve now added a second Pi which is dedicated to running the network, so when I break the first pi doing fun projects I don’t destroy the home network in the process…

Anyway, special thanks to pinkpanda for hosting this year, and to all our sponsors this year. I hope I can enter next year and give whatever project I come up with all the time it deserves.

I've finally done some updating to the archive thread and a little catch up.

Congratulations to everyone who entered the Challenge this year. I think the next event can be safely be named a contest/competition next time as a number of the participants prefer the format of competing against each other. Congrats to G0OSE for taking out the people's choice award. Hopefully see you all again in a few months

Thanks a ton for all of your work to put the contest on this year!

And I’m glad that we ended up with a fair number of participants. Here’s to having even more join the party next year! :beer:

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Thank You Jason for carrying the OL Torch :heart_eyes:
Everyone treasures you, judges, and every contestant. :+1:
Looking fwd to it again :beer:

Look what arrived today :smiley:
I got my OL Prize bundle, big thanks to PP who supplied me one of his own lights, and very kindly did the proper customs sheet and I didn’t get charged a penny.
I was SO excited opening it I can’t tell you! :partying_face: :smiley:
Thank you again PP, you are one in a million mate :+1: and thank you to the judges and voters who voted for me, it’s actually emotional having won such a beautiful and unique prize. :cry:
Also, thank you to Old Lumens himself, if you’re watching up there buddy - you have no idea how happy you made a lot of people and changed their lives with you’re modded masterpieces.
Rest in peace my friend, you’ll never be forgotten on here. :slight_smile:



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That is B E A U T I F U L!!! :heart_eyes:
Congrats G0OSE! And props to pinkpanda too :wink:

Great to see your Old-Lumens Ltd Edition gift set and Noctigon arrived so quickly. :person_with_crown:
Congratulations on your selection of the Peoples Choice Award. :smiley:
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Nice set and certificate! :smiley: :+1: