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Hardware requirement vending machine?

I want to create my own vending machine from scratch. But without the money aspect. Just a basic machine where a person has to select a number and than the appropriate item will come out of the machine. 
What hardware do I need for this? Can someone point me in the direction to get started with this? I am completely lost and can't find anything appropriote with google...

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You mean the ones with the little rotating coil that turns one full revolution and drops a packet of goodies or some freshly used panties into a chute?
Well, on a budget, I'd go look up Arduino projects that use 8-segment display drivers and a numeric keypad.  You probably need two 8-segment units - one for the A/B/C etc, the other for the 1/2/3.  Perhaps something related to burglar alarms would be suitable?
You also want some stepper motors and drivers.  You can pull the motors out of old 3.5-inch floppy drives.  Since you only ever need to drive one motor at a time, you may be able to feed the relevant stepper motor wires into a single driver chip and have some logic line-selectors to liven the appropriate wires.
Presumably you can arrange your motors in a grid, and have two selection circuits - one for row and for column.  You might need to use relays instead of logic gates depending on how much current the motors require.  I'm an electronics wannabe with no time to actually embark on these projects so take my advice with a grain of salt...
If you are just doing this privately and don't have an Arduino development board, it might be more cost-effective to build it with the new Raspberry-Pi...  Although that is a full-blown computer and probably overpowered for the task.
For the wire coils, I imagine you can go to an engineering manufacturer and get them to make you some out of stainless...  But since you're on a budget you can just have a go yourself - coil some kind of stiff wire around a large cardboard roll or something.  In New Zealand we use galvanised "number-8" wire for just about anything.  It's not recommended if you require food-grade hygiene though!!
Oh, I suppose you need a coin slot mechanism too...  Have a look at the DIY video arcade game subculture.  You should be able to find something that accepts coins.  Although accepting multiple denominations and giving appropriate change will be a much fancier unit than they are accustomed to.
Sounds like a fun project.  Hope I've given you some useful ideas.

