Coke machine hacking
From DocDroppers
| Author: | Sheepbyte |
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| Date Released: | unknown - in TIZ-01 |
| Added to DD: | 20:38, 25 Sep 2005 (EDT) |
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Hacking Vending Machines
Got Coke?>Got Milk?>
This is a follow-up to the article published in 2600 about hacking soda machines. I will go more in-depth to this topic.I am going to first talk about hacking coke machines. (The glass front vendor). These machines have a keypad on them and a glass front.
The default code to get into debug mode is 4-2-3-1. Cracking this code would not be too difficult. 10 minutes would crack the code with no problem. Now, when you first type it in it will go to a menu. Press the number 3 to go to different options. The options you may get are:
ERROR CASH SALES RETURN
To select a menu press 4. To leave a menu press 1. To scroll press 3. If you press 4 on CASH it may take a while but it will display a monetary amount. I talked to some coke employees and it seems as if this number is the amount of money it has made in a year. I will leave the sales menu up to you, because it isn't fun if I tell you everything. The sales menu displays how much money and how many of each item it has sold. Hitting 4 on return will take you out of debug mode. When you get to the error menu press 4 to see an error. If there are multiple errors you can press 3 to scroll through them. If you wish to find out more about a certain error you can hit 4 and get a description. For instance, a REFRIG error might say NO COOL and a vendmech error might say COLJAM. If there is no return menu you can press the coin reject button or put a dollar in. Coke employees are usually more than happy to talk with you about the machines. They might give you manuals, or whatever you would like. One guy game me his service manual which is a hard copy :)!The more advanced functions need a key to open the machine. The keys are all the same on the machines I have found. You can call up dixie-narco and request a key because you lost yours (be prepared to spew names). Once you have the machine open you can do programming. Some of the neat features are:
[ custom message happy hour free drink price change error resetting contest (1 in every X is free) etc. etc. etc. ]
I will now talk about hacking the milk machines. These machines have a glass front and USUALLY have milk in them with a got milk logo (many have hersheys milkshakes). They have keypads similar to the coke machines and some have bill acceptors. Pressing * and letters will yield interesting results. The external debug mode on this machine won't let you do much. You can view the temperature, the power usage, and a few other stupid things like that.
You can obtain manuals for these machines at dixie-narco.com. The best way to learn about these products is to talk to the service men. They usually are more than willing to talk and help you out in your journeys. If a service man doesn't want to help you, don't insist or harass him, because he will probably lie to you. Hacking coke machines is purely a journey of learning. I don't believe there is anything illegal about hacking coke machines. The passwords are publicly available on the dixie-narco website and coke can change them if they want to. If the password is changed and you brute force it, it could be illegal.
