Most high schooltime educatee struggle to indite a passable essay on Catcher in the Rye , butBlake Hawkinshas more than earn his high schooltime diploma — and some expend money on the side — byturning an fresh locker into a fully - functional soda can peddle machine .
power by an Arduino hidden forth inside a battery - power control jury , Hawkins ’ vending machine takes reward of the many school lockers that now go unused as text edition go digital , and laptop and tablet substitute notebooks and binder .
And if you find it hard to believe that a gamy schooling pupil would be capable of design and building his own vending political machine , Hawkins has also created a detailedInstructablestutorial that explains how the footlocker was upgraded , and all the job he had to solve during its structure .

The vending machine requires exact change , but it ’s wholly stealing - proof , and even get it on when someone is trying to cheat its coin expansion slot . The most telling part , however , is that Hawkins design it to be installed without modifying or damaging the cabinet in any mode , including a door that mechanically swings exclude after each use of goods and services , and a clever way to route power and wiring without drill any new holes .
[ InstructablesviaBoing Boing ]
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