3rd annual BLF Scratch Made light Contest - Announced!

I'm away for five weeks of it.

But the last-minute builds are always the best.

…I hope you are not away for the last 5 weeks….

In sports we call it handicap. ;) It's nice of you to level the field for others..

I’ve never tried to make one from scratch before, but it would be nice to not have a disclaimer on everything….

Me: “check out this new light i just made.”

“wow, you made this?”

“well, I made the insides… ”

“oh.”

I wonder if there will be a category for 3-D printed lights?

3D printer is a machine, right? :P

But seriously, I think you can join the machine made category with a 3D printed light.

Thanks for the novel idea! That might get us even more participation. :)

I’m tentatively planning on participating this year. I’m still a newbie and so much of this stuff is beyond what I’m able to do, so I’m NOT planning on winning. :stuck_out_tongue: But, I think it would be fun to give it a try. I would just have to figure out what to do with both a limited tool-set AND a limited skill-set! I have a couple of ideas, if I can make it happen… 8)

@_the_ - thank you for taking on this contest project. For the rest of you, real life is just too crazy for me, to take this project on this year. I hope all of you will help keep this great contest going and the only way to do that is with participation.

Sign up and try your hand at making a light and for those who don't, participate by posting encouragement in the build threads, for those who do take on the challenge.

Make the third year another winner!

Thanks again and good luck,

Justin

I'm in once more!

(even though I missed the deadline the first year (by months actually), and did not even submit a light at all the second year)

Thanks _the_ for hosting the contest this year!

Best of luck to those that compete. I always enjoy seeing what others create.

Buck

There are some ideas in my head, I think I should make it real this time.

Awesome to hear its on again. :slight_smile:
Since i wont 1st last year, i’m not sure if i should enter again with a new build, or build a light to offer as a prize, or both?

To me the metric of success is the number of entries. If we could get an ever larger contest each year I would call that a success.

So what am I getting to? Well as one who has only tinkered and is not really up to a build from scratch (no drill press, no bench vice, no lathe) I would like to see classes. I am afraid that if us noobs had to go up against “world class talent” and experience it (might) affect the number of entries, but if I was going up against (the prize is irrelevant) thoes of similure ilke (we) might see more entries!!!

So some proposed classes:

machine build (does this mean lathe? surly it does not mean no power tools)

noob (first light built, or some such low bar)
expereinced (has built less then 10 lights from scratch, (premade PCB’s)
World Class (has built more then 10 lights from scratch including the PCB’s)

Hand made build (does this no power tools? surly it does not mean no power tools) Or just no lathe?

noob (first light built, or some such low bar)
expereinced (has built less then 10 lights from scratch, (premade PCB’s)
World Class (has built more then 10 lights from scratch including the PCB’s)

Talk amongst yourselves,

Im feeling, verklempt

.SNL coffee talk .

Eager to see all the entries, some very nice builds last year.

If you built a copy of your Steam-Pipe light as one of the prizes, I’d do everything short of lie, cheat, and steal to win!

After my dead body, DavidEF. :cowboy_hat_face:

THAT could be arranged! J)

This is a prestigious international competition...

What's with the anti-lying-cheating-and-stealing? ;)

Personal moral conviction. Feel free to ignore it. 0:)

So the comps not based on how the FIFA is run?