Remote controlled Bitcoin vending machine for charity?

[Kakmakr]

I just thought about this idea. We have a lot of bad press and negative things being said about Bitcoin. We need positive press and advertisement for Bitcoin to cancel things out.

Project suggestion :

Someone could create a remote controlled vending machine with a live video stream to the internet. The idea will be for people on the internet to buy random food with Bitcoin donations and placement of these vending machines in soup kitchens.

The people working at these kitchens can then place items for sale in these vending machines and the users will be able to choose from a list, what items will be bought. They select the item and it gets dispensed for free to the people in need on the other side.

The Bitcoin donator can watch the reaction, when the quality food is dispensed via the live streaming and to make sure that these items are going to the correct people. Not staff getting in on the free action.

There are a lot of people with busy lives, who cannot work at soup kitchens, but they want to donate. The problem is, many of them do not want to donate, because some of these donations end up in the wrong hands.

It is also a advertisement for the soup kitchen, if they have a presence on the internet.

This will make sure the people in need, get the items they need.   Anyone want to take on this project for charity? I just supplied the idea.    

[batesresearch]

You should probably speak to this guy:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1240961.msg12919905#msg12919905

See it here: https://bitcoinvendingmachine.wordpress.com/


Great idea to make it for charity !!

[gappo]

Yes  good idea 

However, meanwhile i am not sure how many people would participate...
The side https://bitcoinvendingmachine.wordpress.com/
is now 1 week online and i got almost no "signals" (satoshis) from outside.
The rest was done by myself since i am playing around with it all the time 
(check addresses)
Btw: next improvement will be a laser engraved steal plate which will be attached 

I think we would need a much bigger community until you can use it for charity, or at least a new BTC hype....

However, for sure we need more of https://bitcoinvendingmachine.wordpress.com/ and less ATMs and similar things!!!!
People should use BTC and get used to it.... ....for instance for charity, why not.
At the moment most of them just think about a way to get rich

best regards
Walther

[Kprawn]

This might just work.  .... I saw this project --> http://bitcoinprbuzz.com/a-new-use-case-for-bitcoin-ucontrol-tv-launches-bitcoin-controlled-live-web-streams/ and with proper

marketing and exposure it could take off and go viral. I dropped some Satoshi's into those water buckets to see what they will do, and it was lots of fun. I can just imagine how

much fun it would be to help the homeless via a remote vending machine  It has a cool factor of 8/10  ... Count me in, I will drop some Satoshi's into that too, if it goes to a

good cause.

[Kakmakr]

Yes  good idea 

However, meanwhile i am not sure how many people would participate...
The side https://bitcoinvendingmachine.wordpress.com/
is now 1 week online and i got almost no "signals" (satoshis) from outside.
The rest was done by myself since i am playing around with it all the time 
(check addresses)
Btw: next improvement will be a laser engraved steal plate which will be attached 

I think we would need a much bigger community until you can use it for charity, or at least a new BTC hype....

However, for sure we need more of https://bitcoinvendingmachine.wordpress.com/ and less ATMs and similar things!!!!
People should use BTC and get used to it.... ....for instance for charity, why not.
At the moment most of them just think about a way to get rich

best regards
Walther

I am glad you are positive that charity could boost your project too. It will be something unique and people like new things. I also had a look at the ucontrol thing and think that might tie in nicely with this idea. Every project start out slowly, until more people notice it.

Good luck with your project.

[gappo]

THX - we are on it 

However... i have to say i thought there will be more people who just try it and report bugs etc 
We didnt have feelings such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqp8_ROAIJY yet 
On weekend we will start a new platform - new homepage - better interface - better stream; this might help.

For sure you will see progress at
https://bitcoinvendingmachine.wordpress.com/
every week! (even there is no support from the community  )
We have big plans 

best regards