Design and Implementation of Paper Vending Machine for Retail of Common Usable Papers for Unstop Students

Automation's biggest advantage is very beneficial in all contexts. It brings efficiency, ease management and possibility of multitasking. This prototype provides a solution posted among paper retailers in printing/photocopy shop centers in University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines for students using bond papers, newsprints and yellow papers as answer sheets in their exams and for some other purposes. Retailing such papers are very manual, it is tediously counted piece by piece by the shop attendant. With limited human resources, these retail centers somehow managed multitasking in a hard way. Henceforth the possibilities of accuracy on giving the number of papers that commensurate the amount is compromised and also not discounting the dishonesty among some of the buyers. This paper vending machine utilizes a coin-slot machine and will automatically dispense paper of choice by the student depending on the amount inserted.