ofxVending
created by Anthony Stellato

Copyright (c) 2012 Anthony Stellato

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Requires: ofxSimpleSerial - http://code.google.com/p/ofxsimpleserial/

Description: An add-on for interfacing with vending machines.  In order to accomplish this you will need to find a piece of hardware that will let you treat MDB (the vending machine protocol) as a regular serial stream.
For my projects I used the Upstate Networks PC2MDB, but other pieces of hardware would be possible, just not tested.