Redesign of hero pill machine main board

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I currently have a hero pill machine that I accidentally shorted out the motherboard on or main logic board and would also like to redesign the motherboard to use Wi-Fi a web interface and some code to control the servos and the pump can someone help me design something? It looks like it uses a tea stepper a door sensor a vac a speaker x and z steppers carriage Turntable vacuum valve. It uses up down left right arrows in a screen. I bought the thing in found out that I could not use it I cannot bear to throw it E-Waste. So is there any way that you guys can help me with this project.

I'm not good at electronics or coding. Is that component in the first picture blown if so is it important to the machine I'm just trying to get to turn back on and connect to Wi-Fi so I can do some Wi-Fi sniffing.

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If you are not good at electronics or coding, how the heck are you going to do WiFi sniffing?

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Will my question is first of all is that component blown and if so if I send the board to someone can they fix it so that it works again and reverse engineer it. I would like to get this fixed and working without a hero's subscription hero told me that I cannot use a second hand machine in the machine should have been sent back to them I think it's easy enough with the right design that we can get this machine back in working order so that it doesn't go to e-waste.

Maybe with Wi-Fi sniffing I can find an internal web page for the machine so that I can use it to control it with something like home assistant or a raspberry pi or an Arduino with a add-on board or an ESP32 I'm just not good enough with my knowledge of electronics to do this. It should be easy enough to do The pills are placed in separate containers and it picks one pill up from each container. The hard part is going to be designing them main circuit board.

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You should get good at electronics and coding first, then come back to this project. It's going to require a lot of both before you'll be able to complete it. This isn't something you're going to be able to do efficiently as a first electronics hobby project.

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The problem is I take a lot of medicine that needs to be dispensed correctly hero does that but they want to charge $50 a month

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Wanting to fix it is only gonna go so far. You lack the basic skills required, and aren't gonna have them any time soon. Even once you get them the project you are contemplating is going to take you months.

Take a guy who has never picked up a hammer. He doesn't like the idea of paying for a house to be built. Him merely wanting to DIY it is not gonna be enough to get the foundation poured and the drywall hung. He's gonna have to gain those skills and it's not gonna be accomplished in a week.

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Could I find a motor driver board with multi-input to run the steppers and then convert the suction pump for picking up the pills somehow and figure out how to add a screen I think that's all I need I see three motors in a pump at the end of the tube for the pump is a flexible piece of rubber to pick up the pill.

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You are really missing the point. Your lack of experience could kill you with this project. I for one will NOT attempt to help other than to tell you either to hire a pro or spend 2yrs to 5 yrs at 40 hrs a week gaining the experience needed.
I don't know where you are located, but the odds are it's the USA and they sue at the drop of a hat.
Good luck.

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How much would it cost to higher someone?

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I have a nodeMCU stepper motor 4 wires red blu blk grn do I hook them up to on the board? Can someone give me simple code?

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My rate is $250

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Do you mean you have an esp8266 NodeMCU?
You will need a stepper control board, then a library to use it, that will come with sample code which you can modify to meet your requirements. We don't give code, just use the samples.

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yes the esp8266 NodeMCU

I got the Try to move in one direction.

Looks like there's 10 cups on the tray is there anyway to modify this code so I can pick a cup?

const int stepPins[] = {D1, D2, D3, D4};  // LoLin pins for stepper control

const int steps[4][4] = {
  {1, 0, 1, 0},  // Step 1
  {0, 1, 1, 0},  // Step 2
  {0, 1, 0, 1},  // Step 3
  {1, 0, 0, 1}   // Step 4
};

void setup() {
  for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
    pinMode(stepPins[i], OUTPUT);
    digitalWrite(stepPins[i], LOW);  // Initialize pins to LOW
  }
}

void loop() {
  for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
    for (int j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
      digitalWrite(stepPins[j], steps[i][j]);
    }
    delay(5);  // Adjust for desired speed
  }
}
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... you forgot the "per hour"

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Yes, I was waiting for him to ask. I also left out the 3 month minimum and the non-refundable advance of $40,000.

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Would be crazy to think I would pay $40,000. If I had $40,000 I would put it on a down payment on a house or go get my car fixed. I'm not wanting to re-create the board at the moment I would like to make a board that controls three steppers and a pump and an LCD screen without down left and right arrows.

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Sorry, that is the going rate for qualified experienced staff. With houses costing over $1 million in the big cities in Canada and the US you need to earn that much to afford them, the down payments for those are $200,000.
Good luck.

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Not to mention the need to purchase liability insurance for the expected life of the product.

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Point I just need the circuitboard if somebody could help me at a reasonable cost that would be great?

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Well, then just go to aliexpress and buy one:
https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-syringe-pump.html