/challenges-projects/project14/rfidnfc/b/blog/posts/enhanced-vending-machine---coin-acceptor-and-electroninc-payment-rfid-nfcMy son has recently become interested in starting a vending machine company, dealing in collectable cards and small art projects (books, stickers etc.). He has already purchased a few vending machines, but they are mostly limited by fixed prici...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/rfidnfc/b/blog/posts/enhanced-vending-machine---coin-acceptor-and-electroninc-payment-rfid-nfcWed, 05 Oct 2022 00:59:42 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b261148d-2578-4406-8dff-4d97fca91a88shabaz1<p>Hi Gene,</p> <p>Looking forward to hearing more about this project, it&#39;s intriguing!</p> <p>Regarding the internal programming pad, another idea could be to&nbsp;instead dispense with that (or have a special method to put it into a mode,, and then do the configuration from the NFC interface via mobile. It&#39;s possible to send many bytes from mobile acting as a NFC device. An example of that is&nbsp;RF430CL330H but there are quite a few manufacturers with similar functionality chips. This also means users can use the mobile for payments too, although that would then require software development, so might be a future feature perhaps.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=24519&AppID=393&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">