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Vending Machine With Coins and Online Payments Support Using Arduino

by GirishM9

This is a vending machine model that is designed to
accept various coins, online forms of payment like UPI
and wallets(ex. Google Pay,PayTM, PhonePe, Amazon
Pay etc). Nowadays, People want to avoid the hassle of
carrying change and this is where online payment
support is useful.
It was actually my nal year engineering project that was pandemic to reduce risk of transmission.
completed but was not presented due to the Covid-19
pandemic disrupting everything. I am extremely sorry
for the badly recorded videos as I never got to make a
proper demonstration.
This machine only has 3 slots for storing products as it
was a proof of concept, however there are motor shields
for arduino that can support dozens of motors. The
cashless mode is really helpful feature to have in this

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Step 1: Connecting and Interfacing Components Individually

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1. Coin acceptor: screen.

First, we connected a 12V supply to the coin acceptor 3. DC motors:

and programmed the number of coins it would support
(the CS616 is able to support 6 coins but we
programmed 3 which are 2Rs,5Rs,10Rs), the number of
pulses that each coin would generate and then we
inserted 15 samples of the coin to have high coin
acceptor accuracy.
We connected the motors on a motor shield and
mounted it on Arduino. Then we program the motor
inputs like motor rotation direction, ON time for the
motor to rotate the spiral mechanism just enough to
dispatch one unit of product and not more.

Then we interfaced the coin acceptor with Arduino and 4: LCD display:
programmed it to recognize a coin based on the
number of pulses that we received by the Arduino input we mount the LCD on the i2c module and interface it
pins. with Arduino.

2. GSM module: 5. LEDs and SPST:

We connect the GSM module with Arduino and program We simply interfaced SPST switch and 3 LEDs connected
it to receive and parse payment sms noti cations. The in parallel.
amount received gets extracted and displayed on the

Step 2: Final: Testing Operation of the Machine.

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The machine now complete.

1. First we test the idle condition of the machine.
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3. Then we test the Online mode of the machine by
paying the machine with UPI multiple times with
di erent values and checking the product is correctly
delivered, LCD displays the proper amount, and LEDs
highlight the correct product.

2. Then we test the coin payment mode of the vending //www.youtube.com/embed/gS0tWIHWfmI

machine by paying the machine with di erent coins and
verifying that the correct product is delivered, LCD
displays proper amount, and LEDs highlight the correct
product.

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Did this vending will work with Rs.1 until the total money become Rs.5 ?

Yes. It can be programmed to work that way. Just need to program the 1re coin in acceptor.
Modifying the code to have incremental amount and also a keypad to use the machine as
needed.
Thank you for sharing this project. I have been thinking about making a donation station with
some kind of animatronics and this has given me some ideas on how I can accomplish that.
HOLY MOLY THIS IS SO AMAZING. YOU ARE SO SMART

Well done! Thanks for including the videos of it working :D

thank you. It means a lot coming from someone like you.

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