8th Old Lumens Challenge is CLOSED !!!

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 workā€¦ 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 Iā€™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. Iā€™ve now added a second Pi which is dedicated to running the network, so when I break the first pi doing fun projects I donā€™t destroy the home network in the processā€¦

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 Iā€™m glad that we ended up with a fair number of participants. Hereā€™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 didnā€™t get charged a penny.
I was SO excited opening it I canā€™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, itā€™s actually emotional having won such a beautiful and unique prize. :cry:
Also, thank you to Old Lumens himself, if youā€™re watching up there buddy - you have no idea how happy you made a lot of people and changed their lives with youā€™re modded masterpieces.
Rest in peace my friend, youā€™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:

Well done !

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Sorry for the ā€œresurrectionā€ of the thread, but just wanted to let people know that I received today my ā€œprizeā€ 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) :wink:

Soā€¦the mod bug is alive :wink:

Thanks again to the organization and to L4P for the voucher :wink:

:+1: have fun with all those parts!

Way cool!! :slight_smile:

Nice Mr B :+1: , canā€™t wait to see what you do with it all.
I just sent my KR4 off to CRX for an emitter swap, I just couldnā€™t get on with those SST 20 3000k leds, I tried, but it was just way too warm. Swapping them out for some XPL hiā€™s in NW 5000k.

It seems my prize will be shipped by Neal soon. He just created an order. :sunglasses:

Have fun with your modding supplies, MascaratumB. :+1:

Yeaa Neal did come through!

My prize has arrived! Very fast shipping from Neal. Big thanks to Neal and everyone involved in organising the contest.