The BLF DIY Forum First Annual Scratch made light contest - CONTEST IS DONE - WINNERS are Announced! in the OP

O-L should have added a rule; no DIY lighthouses :smiley:

TP has BIG Hands.Wink And I can’t DQ him, he’s within driving distance…Surprised

Just posted an update to my build. I finally got around to working on it. Enjoy! :beer:

The time frame for the contest is less than generous, but the notice especially seems short, if it was initially announced on 5/29 and to begin on 6/8. If its an annual contest, the time frame need not be arbitrarily short, but I digress. The links to the participants threads would be easier to follow if they were attributed to each contestants name as they appear in the “list of contestants” post rather than being scattered in a following post. I do like the concept of BLF build contests and will be sure to give it a go for the next one!

Well, it looks like the parts I ordered aren’t going to be arriving until after I leave for vacation, so I won’t even be able to start working on it until after the deadline. Hopefully I’ll be able to participate in next year’s build. Good luck to everyone!

With consideration to this being the 1st Annual Scratch Build Contest. Just like building a light, you give birth to the Idea first, then improve on it after finding it’s limitations. Next year will be a doozie! :slight_smile:

I agree that the links beside the members names, acting as an extension, would indeed make it easier to follow. Some pretty dang cool builds going on here, interesting to me is the actual usefulness once completed. :wink:

Sorry to hear that Lunaras, maybe you’ll be able to build it anyway and of course get in a trial run with a build thread?

I was thinking we should have a scratch built driver contest. I know there will be less contestants. We could have a small group decide what the driver format should be. have a few set rules of what the driver sshould include, such as 17mm, 3 modes, no pwm. Though if this actually happens, we should be more creative than that

If that contest would be happening now, texaspyro would win because of his programmable morse mode

Links have been changed.

First time I ever did one of these things, but I probably would have still put a time limit on it. If/when there is a next year's annual contest, I imagine it will be quite different and hopefully, someone else will host and run it. I hope that our Admin will now think about having a contest like this each year. If I had to do it over, I would not have done it at this time of year. Maybe in late April or early May and I would possibly have posted a month ahead of time. I would probably also include a category for best modified factory light.

I have scratch built a driver for my scratch built light…

BLF first annual scratch built 17mm 5a boost driver. must be 4 mode no blinky, no visible PWM, and fit in a standard p60/c8 pill

contest ends ASAP

winner will receive a lot of thank yous from many grateful BLF members

All that scratching might develop a nasty rash.Tongue Out Better try some flea powder.

Maybe the next contest could be thematic. As in period pieces, i.e. a light Washington might have carried, or Jack the Ripper, or Kublai Khan, or Galahad, etc.

With all those scratches, maybe TP is making a Sumerian Special designed in cuneiform.

So, how many are going to make the deadline of July 15? I’m cutting it close, but I think I can get something ready by them (it might be the biggest twisty light you’s ever seen though :smiley: ). I still have a fair amount of work to do, but the major body and head assembly work is behind me, WooHoo! Just little things like the driver, lens and bezel to figure out.

i may not.... its a pretty simple setup im doing, but i have been slackin

My plans are out the window. The drivers no good and I don’t have a lot to choose on. I will have to change my thinking on what this light will be.

I’m staring at 20,000 lumens and thinking “I could use some more…”

of slackers and procrastinators that ever modded a light! Geesh!

I never made a light before, but mine is done and gone. I then modded my custom Ti light with a new driver. Then I de-domed another custom light for better throw. Today I took another apart and swapped emitters, created a mule for up-close-and-personal illumination in 3A of XM-L2 T6 Neutral White.

And I don’t even do this kind of stuff! Y’all should be ashamed, kickin back and tinkering with 60 parts and such, pshaw! And what’s up with that anyway? I thought this was a flashlight forum, lasers? Really? Lazy way out with no reflectors or lenses to build for huh? :stuck_out_tongue:

Guess I’ll make another one cause we’ve got so much time left and I’ve got these left over parts and batteries…

In the meantime, can’t wait to see what y’all slap together and call a light lol

(of course y’all know that I’m blown away by what some o you guys are whipping up, out of this world!)

You are living the life Dale. Now get back to reality and start earning a quid. :wink:

Direct drive. 8)

Well you’ve already got me on horsepower. What are you going to do for afterburners? 8)