Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days

You're reading from   Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days Build exciting projects using smart devices

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286429
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Agus Kurniawan Agus Kurniawan
Author Profile Icon Agus Kurniawan
Agus Kurniawan
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Simple Smart Gardening System FREE CHAPTER 2. A Smart Parking System 3. Making Your Own Vending Machine 4. A Smart Digital Advertising Dashboard 5. A Smart Speaker Machine 6. Autonomous Firefighter Robot 7. Multi-Robot Cooperation Using Swarm Intelligence 8. Essential Hardware Components

Central control machine

Most vending machine use FPGA to control all processes and transactions. One of the core controls of a vending machine is the AMS Sensit 2 PC board that you can see here:

For further information about this machine, you can go to https://www.vendingworld.com/ams-sensit-2-pc-board.php.

For a simple vending machine, you can use an Arduino board as the control unit in your vending machine. Arduino provides more digital and analog I/O pins that you can attach to the machine. You can extend these I/O pins using additional ICs.

Moreover, we can use your Raspberry Pi as a control unit for your vending machine. The Raspberry Pi has capabilities of a computer with low-end features. You can use desktop libraries such as OpenCV with Raspberry Pi to perform image processing and detection.

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image