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[kingchristo]

Hi guys im new to the forum I have just built myself a mame machine and am really enjoying it. it was looking for my next project at building a fruit machine emulator for my dad. Just wondering could you use something so that the winnings would pay out a set amount of sweets toffies thanks

 

[Icey]

What a fun little idea... Can't think of any specific pre built electronic hopper systems that would dispense sweets in that way, unless you could rip something out of a cigarette machine? Perhaps you could knock something together with a small arduino board and a gumball, spoke type dispenser. The number of rotations of the spoke wheel determines the number of sweets to be dispensed.

 

Perhaps you could get away with just having a small wheel with a wedge cut out of it and have a small tank sit above it with the sweets in it, link mame up to the arduino and have the wheel rotate to dispense the sweets. Perhaps you could even include a small infrared beam sensor to monitor the payout count.

 

There must be a more elegant solution though, I'm no expert after all