• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    When I was a kid, very poor, I stumbled on a combination on a specific machine that would spit out more change then I had deposited when I would hit the coin return. I spent hours building up enough charge to buy out the whole machine from a starting point of just a few cents.

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    3 days ago

    I always like to tell this story. As a kid we went to a big community center for holidays. Huge family. So one time the big kids say hey, we found out how to get free pop out of the machines!

    And these were old as shit can style dispensers. All metal. Metal coin return button. 2 machines next to each other. The kids would say press both coin returns down at the exact same time and you get a free random pop! So then you would and you’d get a nice electrical shock 😅😅😅

    Or someone would stand next to you and you’d press it at the same time and theyed touch your arm and zap you lol

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    3 days ago

    Do vending machines allow you to record custom sounds for button presses? I know some folks who hack vending machines. Shit’s dope.

    edit: I mean ‘hack’, not ‘crack’. lern2jargon

      • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        I mean… it’s been such a good servant, standing silent and ready for so long… doesn’t it deserve at least a little release?

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      3 days ago

      I remember a specific brand of vending machines that would go “yippeeee!” as the can was dispensed, so there definitely was some kind of programmable sound chip in that thing