These high school students built their own vending machine
— June 7th, 2018
If you’re a high school student and would appreciate a vending machine in class, what’s to be done? Most of the time the answer is “not much,” but Tustin High T-Tech students were able to get one—by building it themselves!
In fact, this excellent device functioned both as a class project and as a fundraiser for their engineering program. It can be seen working in the video below, and uses an Arduino Mega for control, along with motor drivers and steppers to actuate six snack pusher coils.
Customers simply insert a dollar into the bill acceptor, punch in the correct number in the keypad, and snacks drop out. Arduino code is published here, and Solidworks design files are also available for your DIY vending edification.
June 8th, 2018 at 21:02:09
That high school has one heck of a 5 o’clock shadow!
June 11th, 2018 at 10:43:27
Superb!! they are doing good job.
June 11th, 2018 at 19:45:56
Nice job Tustin High!!! This is an excellent project. Thinking outside the box is a good skill to have! Keep up the good work! 😀
June 24th, 2018 at 20:58:54
Given that there are only 4 responses to this project, I don’t think “making” or “makers” is/are very popular.
But this is an incredible project, and I could only hope to actually succeed in building one!