Strange Vending Machines That Japanese People Find Surprising Deserved or not, Japan has long had a reputation for its weird vending machines. What do Japanese people think about vending machines ...

Seems like just about every hackerspace eventually ends up with an old vending machine that gets hacked and modded to serve up parts, tools, and consumables. But why don’t more hackerspaces ...

The gist of it is that a compact robot arm is put into the drop area of a vending machine. After the flap is closed the wired remote control is used to raise up the telescoping arm, and grip the ...