[tech] Re: several messages

[Mark Tearle]

Offers of assistance from Adrian Chadd, James Devenish, John West and
Chris Thorp :)  Cool some momentum ...


On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Leighton Haynes wrote:

> From: Leighton Haynes <dayta at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> To: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [tech] Vending machine brain: to those who are interested
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:56:30PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:52:53PM +0800, John West McKenna wrote:
> > > It's got a few comments on the bits I figured out before I got bored and
> > > found something else to do.
> >
> > I just remembered that I love vector tables. They save much time.
> > (Says I, who was about to search *forwards* for an lds/ldx pair
> > before I thought again.)
> >
> > For those who are interested in starting out with the software for this,
> > how shall we manage this project? "Manage" is a relative term and I
> > expect that "manage" is to "not manage" as "back of an envelope" is to
> > "stick drawing in the sand at a beach".
> You know, it just struck me that there's probably a fair few people around
> that would be interesting in wiring up a vending machine to the net. I say
> we convert it into a properly documented sourceforge project. I can
> actually see it growing into a nice multi-purpose machine control
> package ;)
>
> Leighton... mmm... sourceforge.

We'll have to be careful if we Sourceforge it, the EPROM dump and the
circuit diagrams are copyright at least.

A good vending abstraction layer is probably a good project though,
with perhaps an implementation of IOTP (Internet Open Trading Protocol)
to do the dispense credit type stuff.

Yours
Mark
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