We have the weirdest vending machine in our office. That’s what I call a good idea and a horrible execution.It runs on nothing else than Linux. It’s able to read your finger print and based on that know how much money you have on your account and if it can dispense drinks for you or if it needs to recharge your credit card. And if something gets stuck while dispensing it generally can sense it and give you an option to select something else or try to drop the item again.
That’s where good things end. Software constantly slows down and crashes. I get a feeling that it’s unable to process more than one request per reboot. Then you have to get behind the machine and pull the cord.
Also it has some cryptic system of picking drinks. You need to combine either 2 green lights or one green and one red.Anyhow, figured I’ll just post something about this monster here. Photo taken with iPhone, so quality is mediocre.
August 12, 2008 @ 12:30
Вот во что может превратиться Линукс в неумелых руках разработчика
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