[tech] A vending machine that vends? Never!

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Sun Jun 20 20:38:45 WST 2004


On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:23:35PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
>  - It reads keys 1 and 9 (first key in both rows) - I think I know
>    the problem, but won't get time to test until monday night.

Evil gcc optimising the usefulness out of code. Fixed. All keys are
now detected.

>  - Motors still haven't moved.

The motors now move (= Home sensors need to be used to tell it where
to stop correctly. (Code is there, but not used yet).

Despite this however, there is now a fairly functional ROM in the
machine that will drop stuff out. Note the contents of the machine
is a couple of months out of code. :)

So all that's left is the home sensors, a serial keypad and the rest
is icing!

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>



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