Unnatended Payment System moving a servo motor controled by arduino. Itsposible?

Using Arduino Motors, Mechanics, Power and CNC
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Hello Everyone, I am really please to get to know this awesome and savy community of electronic and software people. I am new with Arduino but I have experience developing web technologies. I want to get involved with electronics in order to get close to the internet of things.

Before buying the starter kit, I was wondering if it is possible to control a servo motor connected to an Arduino Yun or UNO board by an unattended payment machine such as this one: - YouTube

In other words, I want my customer to pay with their credit or debit card using the above (unnatended payment machine). Once the machine accepts the payment I want this unnatended payment machine to communicate with my Arduino Yun or UNO board so it can call a servo motor to action and move.

Is that posible with Arduino Yun or UNO?

Or which board will fit best?

Thank you very much,

Sincerelly,

FT

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So you want us to help you build an unattended drug dispencing machine ?
Do you think this is the first post we' ve seen like this?

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With the appropriate power supply, it is possible to control a servo with an Arduino, yes,

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michinyon:
With the appropriate power supply, it is possible to control a servo with an Arduino, yes,

Thanks for you fast response. Which power supply would you recommend? Or where can I learn about power supplys and which one would fit my necessities?

Thank you very much,

FT

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Any questions regarding driving a servo with an arduino are equally valid irrespective of the payment machine. You need to qualify your servo related questions with the torque rating requirement to identify the kind (size) of servo you need for the application. Somehow you must describe what the servo needs to do in terms of work (load) for anyone to recommend a servo. You have not specified what kind of servo you mean. Usually the word "servo" on this forum refers to an RC style servo. Industrial servos (such as 3-phase AC motor DeviceNet based driver types) with absolute encoders are a completely different animal. Servo is really just a generic word implying motor/feedback system.

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want this unnatended payment machine to communicate with my Arduino Yun or UNO board so it can call a servo motor to action and move.

Arduinos controlling servos is well documented with a lot of sample code available. You need to find out if the unattended payment machine has any way to communicate with an arduino.

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Thank you very much,

I appreciate it,

FT