u/DoodleMcGee29

Video in action

Hi all, first post here. I know there have been a few vending machine builds posted here before, which I took a lot of inspiration from. This is version 2 for me (the first honestly wasn't worth sharing) and it has a few elements I was very excited to be able to incorporate.

1. Delivery via train moves large quantities of items much faster than auto arm chains. Also automatic selection of specific stations to stop at, as it saves time over stopping at stations without any resources to load.
2. Total number of items (32) is the only limit - can select as many different resources as wanted
3. Resource deposit/sorting is built in and simultaneous (exciting for me because V1 was either in vend or deposit mode)

Stuff I'm working on for V3:

1. Reset button to clear all resource selections without having to do each individually
2. Canister mode to deliver canisters of a resource
3. The big one is automatic level detection and refill of smeltable/chemistry resources. I'm not big on the scrap farm thing (no hate to those who are), so being able to pull resources automatically for conversion, and alert the user when base resources are low is a bit more complicated than it otherwise would be
4. Maybe... maaaybe switch to storing resources in extra large canisters. Tbh not sure if its necessary/worth it, 400 is truly enough and there's no stacked extra large platform yet so the footprint would have to expand quite a bit.

I'd love to hear comments + suggestions, or answer questions about the build!