Finished: 6th Annual BLF Handmade Entry (Finished!) - gchart
Great guys
Nice work, Don
Sorry - I meant to comment on this a few days agoā¦
Maybe the Comp could be better publicised in the months leading up to it, giving people a little more time to think about a build, & also more time to order any parts required.
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Maybe the Comp could be better publicized in the months leading up to it, giving people a little more time to think about a build, & also more time to order any parts required.
Comments regarding thatā¦.
I joined BLF about the time the 3rd annual contest was underway. I was intrigued but had no time or idea to enter. So I watched. Then I dreamed. I entered the 4th contest a year later. I would think most new members have a reasonably thorough look through what is already here, what has been posted. The previous contests are easy enough to find and should inspire those who are so inclined.
NOTE to the, sb56637, or whoever has the proper permissionsā¦. Please make this years main contest topic sticky so it does appear in the forum index along with the previous years.
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Perhaps a reminder āadvertā could be posted someplace a couple of months prior to the contest startup date. But where? It would be easy to miss something like that if one was not a regular visitor.
My personal feelings are three months is enough time, BUT one must be ready to do something or at least start planning as soon as the start date is announced. I had a rough plan in my head about this years project for many months. However, I didnāt get going until a month after the contest announcement date.
I donāt think work should be commenced before the official start date. We are on an honor system anyways as far as how long it took us to build, when we started, etc.
I am not on the list again lol 3rd year its happen
Okay we are at the end i guess, So i am fixing this thread up i will remove some things and post all pics from the different dates here so its easier to find. I will keep the stuff about my finger. My build was meant to be a headlamp but i had to put that on hold because of my finger. I had the idea already in my head but it seemed like a task i couldnāt Handle at this moment. New build is meant to be retro a flashlight/torch of some kind, i am a telecommunication technician by trade and i likā¦
I am pretty new here but if i am allowed to tell how i see it :
iirc i arrived here while the constest was already started but didn't hear about it very soon.
I could have found about it but ... well you don't search for something you don't know exist and since i heard about it and up to recently i have had not much time for building anything even if i have some ideas.
Now i am starting to tinker with what i have at hand but i don't think ill have anything ready for a few weeks (not even talking about the end of this week ;) ) and on the other hand now that i start to see where i am going i won't keep it hiden until november 2019 and i am not sure how busy at work i'll be then to start an other project at that time.
So from a general point of view i feel that it's better to give more time for everyone to enter and from a totally selfish point of view i would love to have the next contest start at the begining of the year so i have a chance to enter with what i am starting now ;)
What do you mean you never knew, Iāve had a link advertised in my signature since it started!
Every post.
There is a time limit, part of any competition so starting a build way before the commencement is announced would be very unfair but youāre welcome to participate within the stated rules, there is still time even
Maybe a sticky announcement a month before the start date would be good but (ahem sb), this years comp is still to be stickied
I am not on the list again lol 3rd year its happen
EDSG-6th Annual BLF / Old Lumens HandMade Light Entry (finished)
Did you PM a link to your thread to _ the_ so he would know to list you?
From the OP:
Contestants: Please remember to PM me with a link to your Build Thread.
Thatās the only thing I can think of. I had seen your post #5 saying you would be in, but there was no link there, and I never saw your build thread until recently.
Well, I had an idea a short time after the contest started, thought about it, made the design, and then I knew which components I needed for my build. There are parts which I canāt buy locally for a reasonable amount of money so I ordered them in China, e. g. LEDs, o-rings, magnets and some other electronic components. That was in the first half of October. I received the last components about a week ago, the ordered neodyme magnets still havenāt arrived. Due to private and professional obligations there is only limited time to build the lantern. Hopefully Iāll manage to finish in time but I wouldnāt complain if I had some more time next year - particularly since its expected not to start with the build before the contest begins.
No problem with with the rules and i don't intent to enforce them :) but as pinkpanda was talking about extending the contest time to the full year i wanted to plus that one
Btw i am really amazed with what everyone is doing here ! Cheers guys !
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Maybe a sticky announcement a month before the start date would be good
/snip/ Perhaps a reminder āadvertā could be posted someplace a couple of months prior to the contest startup date. But where? It would be easy to miss something like that if one was not a regular visitor.
Yes, this is what I was getting at; a little more promotion of the event.
^ Agree 100%
Too few contestants this time.
Announce it earlier and more frequently in the future.
Only 8hours, and counting now left to the official end of time.
Congrats to all who entered and completed.
Time is up! No more updates to build threads. (New comments allowed, but not taken into account when judging)
Judges will now do the scoring and return with results in roughly 2 weeks from now.
Meanwhile, please enjoy the build threads! Really nice content, again!
Thanks for the update the and congratulations to everyone for having a go
Thanks for the update the and congratulations to everyone for having a go :partying_face: :+1:
Yep.