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.
[ sound of equipment shuffling ]
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.
[ beep ] 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.
[ equipment shuffling ] 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,
(unintelligible: skirdezyz?) Sorry (unintelligible),
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!
[ mouse clicking ]
Four! Patchuma.
Sorry, you don't win it either. Five!
[ mouse clicking ]
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...
(unintelligible: Denzul Penbirthy?), 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.
(unintelligible: D. Davidey Boar?) 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.
[ mouse clicking ]
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! [ laughs ]
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. [ equipment shuffling ]
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!
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