Vendo is a parts vending machine built from the husk of a Wurlitzer vending machine from the 80's.
Unfortunately when work commenced on it originally the coin mechanism had died. As such, it is now powered by:
- Arduino (Mega, for controlling the hardware.)
- Rasberry Pi (B+, running the web interface, touch screen and an RFID reader.
Vendo's core software (npc-vend) runs as a web service on the Raspberry pi, providing a web interface. On boot the raspberry pi launches npc-vend and Chromium pointing at the npc-vend web interface which also handles the RFID reader.