{"id":2612,"date":"2023-05-23T21:59:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:59:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:59:42","slug":"lightning-operated-chocolate-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"Lightning operated chocolate arcade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After the Covid lockdowns are only a faint memory, conferences are back again. Last October I was at the Lugano PlanB Forum<\/a> with lots of familiar speakers. The talks were good, but not as technical as I would prefer. And last month I was at the Swiss Bitcoin Conference<\/a> in Kreuzlingen. The talks there were even less technical, but the conference was all in German. That was new for me. I only recently discovered how big the German speaking Bitcoin community grew. So far the Bitcoin community that I was involved was more English speaking. A good percentage was also Swiss people, but since there are also a many expats, the main language has always been English. But that’s not what I want to write about here.
The conference was a FIAT free zone. Drinks and food was all paid with Bitcoin Lightning<\/a> thanks to the payment terminals from Lipa<\/a>.
At the conference there were some industry booths. These are always interesting to explore. One that was particularly interesting was Bischof vending machines<\/a>. They presented an industry grade vending machine with a Lightning upgrade (prototype), that they actually plan to bring to production. They also sold toy LN Candy Arcades<\/a> with a Bitcoin Switch<\/a> kit. I had to get one of these!
Back home I flashed the micro controller and configured it. And I modified the candy arcade to operate by the relais from the BitcoinSwitch instead of the coins. It is fairly easy to do, but it is at such a high level that it’s more difficult to diagnose if things don’t work, than working at the lower level that I usually prefer. But since everything was already so well prepared, I did the whole thing without diving into the code. The machine is now in the office at SEBA<\/a>. So far only few colleagues installed a lightning wallet and grabbed some chocolate. It works most of the time, but I found out that the LNBits demo instance<\/a> is not always so reliable. And I also found out that it is the most difficult to grab some Lindor<\/a>, when the ground is fully covered with one layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the Covid lockdowns are only a faint memory, conferences are back again. Last October I was at the Lugano PlanB Forum with lots of familiar speakers. The talks were good, but not as technical as I would prefer. And last month I was at the Swiss Bitcoin Conference in Kreuzlingen. The talks there were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,254],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bitcoin","tag-lightning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}