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Tech: Hacking your local pop machine..
Wed, 11 May 2005

As everyone knows, I'm pretty into coin operated machines... be they arcade cabinets, classic old jukeboxes, or old Coca-cola machines -- someday I will (wife permitting *g*) pick up one of the old Coke machines that had the vertical column of Coke bottles stacked on their sides behind a little thin glass door. They're expensive, but not too too hard to find. Harder to find is cola in a glass bottle however.. (actually no worries, my wife is very cool with my obscure big-toy hobbies, as long as I keep all my junk out of site *g*)

Anyway, 'hacking' is the honourable (or sometimes mischeavious) act of finding out more about something, while a good 'hack' is a something nifty that has been discovered or built. For instance, a good hack is to make a pinhole camera out of next to nothing, or make a simple transistor radio out of a single transistor. A magazine like Popular Mechanics will feature dozens of hacks in its pages. But here we have some people hacking pop machines of all things! Did you know thse things have a debug mode in them?!

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