Creating a Vending Machine with Lego Mindstorm
Abstract:
Vending machines have come a long way, since their introduction to human society
thousands of years ago. Although the basic concept of a vending machine has not
changed, modern day technology has significantly enhanced them. Our vending machine
is no different. Although our vending machine is not top of the line, it is also not such a
bad one either. We started out with building the five main components of a vending
machine: the dispenser, trough, selection device, and payment reader entirely out of
LEGOs. We decided on a door like dispenser and buttons as a selection device. The
payment we decided to accept were barcodes. The only component that was actually
giving us trouble was the dispenser. Our first dispenser design was severely flawed.
After coming up with a door like mechanism, the dispenser was easily fixed. Although
we did prove our hypothesis to be correct, there are still many improvements that we
could make such as improving the design to make it easier to maintain.
Question:
Is it possible to create an operational candy machine with only LEGOs?
Purpose:
To build a candy machine that is capable of:
· Reading a barcode
· Detecting if it is a fake or not
· Sending a signal to the other RCX to allow to user to:
1) Select the candy
2) While making sure that the machine remains stationary
Background:
The History of Counterfeiting the US Currency
The counterfeiting of money is one of the oldest crimes in history. Therefore I
needed to find out the ways I could use a LEGO RCX to recognize a correct bill
and reject it if it is fake.
The History:
During the American Revolution, the British counterfeited U.S. currency in such
large amounts that the Continental currency soon became worthless. 'Not worth a
Continental' became a popular expression that is still heard today.
During the Civil War, one-third to one-half of the currency in circulation was
counterfeit. At that time, approximately 1,600 state banks designed and printed
their own bills. Each bill carried a different design, making it difficult to detect
counterfeit bills from the 7,000 varieties of real bills.
A national currency was adopted in 1862 to resolve the counterfeiting problem.
However, the national currency was soon counterfeited and circulated so
extensively that it became necessary to take enforcement measures. Therefore, on
July 5, 1865, the United States Secret Service was established to suppress the
wide-spread counterfeiting of this nation's currency.
Although the counterfeiting of money was substantially suppressed after the
establishment of the Secret Service, this crime still represents a potential danger
to the Nation's economy.
Abstract:
Vending machines have come a long way, since their introduction to human society
thousands of years ago. Although the basic concept of a vending machine has not
changed, modern day technology has significantly enhanced them. Our vending machine
is no different. Although our vending machine is not top of the line, it is also not such a
bad one either. We started out with building the five main components of a vending
machine: the dispenser, trough, selection device, and payment reader entirely out of
LEGOs. We decided on a door like dispenser and buttons as a selection device. The
payment we decided to accept were barcodes. The only component that was actually
giving us trouble was the dispenser. Our first dispenser design was severely flawed.
After coming up with a door like mechanism, the dispenser was easily fixed. Although
we did prove our hypothesis to be correct, there are still many improvements that we
could make such as improving the design to make it easier to maintain.
Question:
Is it possible to create an operational candy machine with only LEGOs?
Purpose:
To build a candy machine that is capable of:
· Reading a barcode
· Detecting if it is a fake or not
· Sending a signal to the other RCX to allow to user to:
1) Select the candy
2) While making sure that the machine remains stationary
Background:
The History of Counterfeiting the US Currency
The counterfeiting of money is one of the oldest crimes in history. Therefore I
needed to find out the ways I could use a LEGO RCX to recognize a correct bill
and reject it if it is fake.
The History:
During the American Revolution, the British counterfeited U.S. currency in such
large amounts that the Continental currency soon became worthless. 'Not worth a
Continental' became a popular expression that is still heard today.
During the Civil War, one-third to one-half of the currency in circulation was
counterfeit. At that time, approximately 1,600 state banks designed and printed
their own bills. Each bill carried a different design, making it difficult to detect
counterfeit bills from the 7,000 varieties of real bills.
A national currency was adopted in 1862 to resolve the counterfeiting problem.
However, the national currency was soon counterfeited and circulated so
extensively that it became necessary to take enforcement measures. Therefore, on
July 5, 1865, the United States Secret Service was established to suppress the
wide-spread counterfeiting of this nation's currency.
Although the counterfeiting of money was substantially suppressed after the
establishment of the Secret Service, this crime still represents a potential danger
to the Nation's economy.
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Simple Drawing Machine (Spirograph)
by JKBrickworks
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A simple Spirograph style drawing machine. It can be configured in a number of different ways in order to create different patterns. See the video or the details url for more info on how it works.
This model can technically be hand cranked if you don't have a motor, but it will take forever to fully create a pattern.
User seejay has designed a modified version with additional gearing that makes it much more feasible to hand crank. You can find instructions for it here: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-28455/seejay/hand-cranked-drawing-machine
This model can technically be hand cranked if you don't have a motor, but it will take forever to fully create a pattern.
User seejay has designed a modified version with additional gearing that makes it much more feasible to hand crank. You can find instructions for it here: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-28455/seejay/hand-cranked-drawing-machine
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