WEB Enabled Electronic Component Vending Machine

Student: Tony Alan Curtis

Supervisor: Richard Cocks

Category: Electrical Engineering Thesis Project

NetVend is a multi-year, multi-student, thesis project, as a combined effort of the members of the Just Off Campus Group, from the University of Queensland. NetVend is aimed at designing and implementing a modular, Internet-enabled, vending machine system. Conceptually, the system is capable of being applied to any vending situation imaginable.

To enable a practical, demonstrable implementation within the University of Queensland, the NetVend thesis project aims to implement the system controlling a Small Component Vending Machine (SCVM). This modular, physical vending machine is designed to vend vials of electrical components to the students in the laboratories at the University of Queensland.

This particular thesis deals with the SCVM being developed for the University of Queensland laboratories. This thesis was to implement a 2-axis motion control system for the displacement of the Small Component Vending Machine gantry.

Poster Presentation (PDF)

Thesis Document (PDF)