[Swansea Hackspace] Vending Machine?

[David Davies-Day]

Using it to dispense arduino and other bits like servos is interesting.

I wonder if it could be put I need the foyer of the space or maybe the place directly under us, even if a little rent for electricity would be required, u think it could be a tidy little income as it would be accessible to the public (assuming we can sell to public).


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From: Nathan Hackett <nhackett1 at gmail.com>
Date:18/08/2016 12:40 PM (GMT+00:00)
To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Vending Machine?

These type of machines do regularly sell in the ?500 range, even non-working ones. The listing is for 15 days, I'll leave it a week or so and then maybe make an offer for around ?100. Dunno, like you said there's no rush. :)
I thought that fridge-as-pc-case idea turned out to terrible in practice? Because they're not usually designed to dissipate a constant heat source. I might be wrong, would be very interested what kind of temps they got.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk<mailto:alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:53:01 +0100
Nathan Hackett <nhackett1 at gmail.com<mailto:nhackett1 at gmail.com>> wrote:

> I already know the answer will be "we can't afford it" but I thought I'd
> post this anyway...
> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Snack-Vending-Machine-sells-snacks-crisps-chocolates-Fridge-Part-Not-Working-/172293532212
>
> It's for collection in Swansea, and they might go for a lower price. Would
> be great to stock with cheap microcontroller boards and other commonly
> needed parts. And also a fun group project to get it running and looking
> nice. :)

We aren't in any hurry - it's too heavy to ship and probably nobody else
in Swansea will want it. Why not wait until after it doesn't sell and
offer to pick it up for free when he's bored of trying to sell it and has
to pay someone to dispose of it ?

Some years ago in North Carolina btw I actually met someone who had
converted an old fridge into his machine cabinet by boring a hole in the
side and running a pipe through it for the network and power cables, plus
some other mods to handle condensation 8)

Alan

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