{"id":408,"date":"2021-01-27T22:24:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T22:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/?page_id=408"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:08:18","slug":"wonderful-weekends-gumball-machiine-chicago-il","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/sample-page\/wonderful-weekends-gumball-machiine-chicago-il\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Weekends: Gumball (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20190929_101354-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20190929_101354-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20190929_101354-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20190929_101354-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20190929_101354-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20190929_101354-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20190929_101354-2048x1535.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\">Premise<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At Wonderful Weekends, Google threw a mini-festival for three days of music, food and fun. Deeplocal created the main attraction, a giant, nearly two-story gumball machine that dispensed prizes from a variety of local Chicago businesses, as well as a number of smaller interactive exhibits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Role<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The giant gumball machine consisted of seven stations each with a 60&#8243; display, an oversized coin slot and turnstyle and four knobs representing a different prize category (food, adventure, entertainment, shopping). The screen instructed the user to insert a giant coin in the slot, rotate the turnstyle, and select and pull a knob. Next an animated story played on the screen while a prize was dispensed in a big plastic gumball. I specced all electrical components including sensors and switches. I designed a custom PCB and wrote the firmware to control the Gumball Machine stations, implementing a state machine to sense coin insertion, recognize turnstyle rotation and knob pulls, control actuators for gumball dispensing, illuminate LEDs appropriately and communicate to the main computer. 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