Automated Medication Dispenser System... or R.O.O.S.T.E.R.

We have decided for our semester-long project to be an automated medication dispenser (R.O.O.S.T.E.R.). My group includes Eli Marschner, Andrew Bonventre, and Daniel Wong.

Here is our proof of concept presentation.

Last night we tried to make a double-hinged box for our in-class presentation, but I bought really cheap hinges from Hillside, which destroyed the box. We rethought our strategy, and we wound up with duct-tape hinges:



Here are our TopCode "pills" (aka coins):



And here is the scheduling grid inside the bottom of our sketchy R.O.O.S.T.E.R. box: