This is a short video demonstration of The Soda Locker, a soda vending machine that high school student Blake Hawkins built and installed in his locker at school. The coin accepter and control panel were all built from scratch and run on an Arduino microcontroller. Everything is powered by a 12 volt deep cycle battery, which, unfortunately, doesn’t have enough juice to run a refrigeration system, so the cans are dispensed at room temperature. Still, impressive, and a room temperature Mountain Dew never stopped me from drinking it. Man, and to think I never made anything in high school but C’s and naked lady sculptures in ceramics class.

Keep going for the video demonstration, and Blake wrote up an impressive Instructable in case you want to build your own HERE.

Source: Geekologie – High School Student Builds And Installs Soda Vending Machine In His Locker