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
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...???
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
Look what arrived today
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!
Thank you again PP, you are one in a million mate and thank you to the judges and voters who voted for me, it’s actually emotional having won such a beautiful and unique prize.
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. faith poems by famous poets
Sorry for the “resurrection” of the thread, but just wanted to let people know that I received today my “prize” from the OL Contest!
I used a voucher from led4power store - thanks L4P - and today I got my stuff in the mail (along with other stuff I ordered besides the voucher)
So…the mod bug is alive
Thanks again to the organization and to L4P for the voucher
Nice Mr B , can’t wait to see what you do with it all.
I just sent my KR4 off to CRX for an emitter swap, I just couldn’t get on with those SST 20 3000k leds, I tried, but it was just way too warm. Swapping them out for some XPL hi’s in NW 5000k.
