Because as [Ryan Bates] found out, building a DIY vending machine isn’t as easy as it looks. [Ryan]’s “Venduino” has a lot of hackerspace standard components – laser-cut birch plywood ...
Instead of using an off-the-shelf coin detector, a simple LED and photodiode pair brought the hack to life. This could easily be adapted to any machine and even be used to create a DIY vending ma ...
How-to videos on TikTok and YouTube show vending entrepreneurs unloading bricks of cash.  But is it that simple?