Hi, welcome to the Fluke Contest draw. And I'm doing this live, on UStream. Well, I'm recording with my studio camera here so I can upload to YouTube, but there are-- Hi guys over there! People Watching my live show. There they all are, I've got my window happening, my webcam happening, and we've got 50-odd people watching gu-- as guests, and 29 people logged into UStream.

So, sorry about the late notice, but here we go. We're going to draw this Fluke CNX3000 Basic Kit Multimeter. Here it is! I Won't get into details, but comes with the pouch, comes with the wireless AC modules as well, and all the accessories including the temperature probes and various probes and things like that. Really Cool.

So I'm going to attempt to do this in one continuous video shot, so people can't claim it's all-- aww,, it's all rigged and everything like that. So Let's do it. Now I'm going to have to move the camera around here. Here We go.

Need to get it set up. And Here's the screen. Hopefully That's all working just fine. And Yes, webcam people, I will also show you this as well.

So, let's do it. Now What we've got here is our contest thread down here. There's 43 pages worth of stuff down there. I've actually locked it off.

Oh, sorry. Webcam People, aww. This is really going to suck. Sorry For the live web-- the live-- or the lack of quality in the live feed folks.

But Here we go, I'm going to go into there. Fluke CNX3000 Contest. And Here's all the-- everyone's individual posts, all through there. Now What I'm going to do is Here We go.

I'm going to go over to print. Going To go to print over here, and it prints a page, It prints a text page with all of the entri-- with all of the, you know, every single post. I'm in, I'm in, blah blah blah. As a text file, and then we can save page as, we'll just call it Fluke, because the program I don't think likes anything with spaces.

So, it'll just be Fluke.TXT. So We'll save that in my C drive EEVblog Contest. Save. Alright! I've already done a test version of it to make sure it all works.

So Let's get in here and... Here we go. I've got my EEVblog Contest, I've just got the file I just created, There it is.. It was just created seconds ago.

And If we run that, it says there's no filename specified. So What I'm going to do-- aww, I should have done this first, sorry, should have done this first, fail. Logistical Fail here folks. What I need to do is, umm, I'm going to run the program a random number of times, so it'll be the Nth person chosen out, like I've done in previous contests.

So What I'm going to do for that is here we go,: turn on. I'm going to use the actual meter itself, and I'm just going to hold the probes, like that. There's no trickery going on here, I'm not forcing a value at all. Sorry, it's hard to read.

So I'm just generating a random value like that. Sorry Live people, I will show you the value when it's done. But Here we go. And Then I'm just going to press the hold button, so it's jumpin--' Here we go.

And We're going to take the last digit. So After the decimal point, I'm just going to press hold at a random time. And that digit, if it's more than one, I don't want zero or one because I want to draw the at least more than one name. So Let's give it a go.

I'm going to close my eyes, and it's jumping around, and... hold. There We go,. what have we got.

Zero, useless. Let's try it again. Nine! Nine, aww man! We've got to go through nine names. I Was hoping it wouldn't be nine, but it is.

There It is, folks, nine. So We've got to run-- we've got to pull nine names out of the hat, and the ninth name will win it. Woohoo! Assuming that they've got the correct number of posts and they haven't just spammed the forum to enter. So, my rules, I can change them.

Beauty. Alright, now. Here We go.. Don't know how long this video's going to be.

Aww, it's been going for five freaking minutes already. Alright, Here we go. So We're going to run this program. Oop.

Nine times. And Hopefully, I won't lose count. Aww Sorry live people, this just sucks for you. But...

yeah. Not sure what I can do there. Alright, Now here we go. I'm going to drag that in, and it says...

Here it is. 636 names found. So There's been 636 names. Found 6 duplicate names, Aww cheaters, they tried to enter more than once.

I Busted you. There's now 631, that's minus my post as well,. it takes out my name, so no dramas there. And Now doing some random shit to calculate the winner.

And This person does not win the meter. Because This is our first draw. So, Sorry , if that's how you pronounce it, you didn't win it. But Your name can be drawn out again, don't worry.

It is completely random. So I'm just goin-- that's one, please keep count. Dit, dit. Quick Print? Nope Sorry, you don't win it.

That's two! And... Three! Kendas Probe. Sorry! Four! Patchuma. Sorry, you don't win it either.

Five! Micro Freak! Sorry Micro Freak, but your name can come out again. Don't worry. Uhh. And This is 6, right? McMonster! Aww, sorry McMonster.

Six. And... , that's seven, sorry! We're 8, we're almost there, second last. So If your name gets called out now, you still haven't won it, but you're runner-up I guess.

Aww, not going to try and pronounce that correctly, sorry dude! And Here we go, the winner is, folks,, the winner is... Have I counted wrong? Hang on, I'll wait for the live feed folks, I'll wait for the live feed people to tell me. Is it nine? Am I Up to nine? I think I am. There's a lag, there's like a 10 second lag.

You have counted right. Okay, thank you Irwin! I've counted correctly. Here we go, the winner is... The winner is...

Oop. The winner is... Tada! Shift Plus One! Hey, Shift Plus One! A temporary congratulations, because we have to check your name out, to see if you are legitimate. So, what I'm going to do here is: I'm going to go in, shift plus-- I was-- okay.

Shift Plus One. I shouldn't-- I won't show this, sorry. Because It can show up people's userna-- passwords and-- no not passwords, umm, email address and shi-- stuff. So Let me check out Shift Plus One.

And Let me just have a look to see if Shift Plus One is Ma-- oh, he or she, has made 50 posts, and they all look... So they've been on here for awhile. And Let's have a look at Shift Plus One's account. Well, not the account, but the posts.

On Another forum... Laugh when anything... Blah blah blah. Thanks for the tips, blah blah blah.

Neither is patched version of it, all cross-- nah, yeah, no. Oh Triple Five timer Easter egg. Oh he's been around awhile, there you go. And Of course, most recent post would have been-- or one of the most recent ones would have been to enter the contest.

So I Do declare that Shift Plus One is a valid winner. I Am 21. Hello, here we go! Shift Plus One, I Am 21 studying Electrical Engineering and Business management. RMIT! Aha, Australian! Yes, I Don't pay as much postage, awesome! I Found-- nah, I Love it.

Aussie Winner, for a change. I Found EEVbl-- that's against the odds actually, folks. That is well against the odds. because most of my audience are-- the majority-- well, the highest number is US, and then England, then Germany, then Canada, then Australia, or something like that.

So, found through hackaday posts, much more interesting electronics joined the forum to see what other people are doing, get ideas for feedback on future projects. Well, there you go! The Winner is Shift Plus One. Oop. This Place, folks, is an absolute mess.

I Need to fix it up. Can't move my camera around here. And... Tada! Shift Plus One! Congratulations! Send me an email, and you win the Fluke CNX 33-- CNX V Three throu-- three thousand basic kit! Can't say it, tongue tied! Congratulations-- Aww, 11 minutes just to draw a name out of a bloody hat.

Unbelievable. Eh, that's the EEVblog style, is it not? Go figure. So Congratulations Shift Plus One! And Hopefully I'll run another contest soon. We'll see.

But Yeah, a lot of people complained that there were people jumping on the forum and spamming the forum and spamming the forum just to enter the contest. I was hoping to avoid that with the 5 post minimum, some people have said it should be like 50 or something like that and you should have to be a member for X number of months or something like that. I don't know. I'm-- let me know, leave it in the comments or on the forum thread for this video.

Catch you next time! Captioned by Sen.