6/10/2018 How To Make WiFi Vending Machine using Raspberry Pi

Make A WiFi Vending Machine Using Raspberry Pi

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Create a coin-operated WiFi vending machine with few simple steps. You can also
download the guide in PDF format.

Step 1: Prepare the materials needed

If you don't have the coin acceptor yet, you can still proceed to install the software and
configure your wifi vending machine as long as you have araspberry pi,power
supply(for raspberry pi) and amicro SD card. You won't be able to test the payment
functionality though.

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B or B+

Universal Coinslot / Multi-coin Acceptor

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Others

4GB (or higher) Micro SD Card - class 6 or 10 (important)

Micro SD Card Reader
Important: The micro SD card must be of high quality. Use Sandisk Ultra
or Samsung Evo

Raspberry Power Supply

12 Volts DC Power Supply

12V DC at least 1A output power supply.

This is used to power the coin acceptor. You must identify the positive and ground
terminal using voltmeter.

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Step 2: Software Installation

Needed softwares:

Download and install Etcher to your computer.

Download Ado Piso WiFi Raspbian Image

After downloading the needed softwares, we need to flash the installer into the midro
SD card using Etcher. To do so, unzip the contents of adopisowifi.zip

Insert the micro SD card into the your computer using a card reader.

Open Etcher and click Select Image.

Then select adopisowifi-(version).img from the zip file.

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Make sure to select your micro SD card

Click the Flash! button and wait for the process to finish.

NOTE:
If you encounter prompts about formatting your sd card, just click Cancel.

Step 3: Configure The Machine

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IMPORTANT:

Make sure you do the following before turning on the raspberry:

the SD card into the raspberry sd slot.

the LAN cable into the ethernet port of raspberry pi and make sure it is connected
to internet

Note: You don't have to insert a monitor to the HDMI port.

Turn on the raspberry pi and wait for the AdoPisoWifi WiFi network to appear, it may
take a couple of minutes.

Connect to the wifi network using your laptop or smartphone. Once connected, open a
browser and go to http://10.0.0.1/admin

username: admin

password: admin

(The machine is also accessible in your ethernet using its WAN IP.)

After successful login, go to Timer Settings and at the bottom of the page, set
Coinslot Sensor to version 2.

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Step 4: Connecting All Components

Connect all the connections base on the circuit diagram. Make sure to check the
positive ang negative terminal of the 12V DC power supply for the coinslot to work
properly.

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Step 5: Update the Software

Software is constantly being improved, you need to update the software after
installation to get the latest features. To update the software, go to the admin settings
and navigate to Device section. Then click the Check For Updates button at the
bottom of the page. Then click for Install Updates button.

Join our Community

We have a lot of users that have already created a machine using our software. Join our
discussions and see what others are doing with their wifi vending machines.

Note:
Raspberry will use it's built-in wifi module to broadcast the SSID. But its signal is very
weak and recommended only for testing purposes. It is best to upgrade the antenna
usingexternal access point / CPE antenna to extend the wifi range and speed of
your wifi vending machine.

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