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The assembly of a unit with five pill dispensing units without the pill holding chambers. The five pill dispensing units are arranged in a row. The system can contain 1 to 50 pill dispensing units depending on the number of different types of pills and pill dispensing units may be arranged in a row or […]

The assembly of the unit where the wheel/gear is situated in the encasing chamber and the wheel is connected to a 5V stepper motor via the rod of the stepper motor, which controls the rotation of the wheel via an Arduino board, and a custom Android application. The groove is shown on the wheel. The

The design of wheel/gear. The disk of the wheel/gear is 4 cm diameter x 1.2 cm thick with customized grooves of different sizes. The wheel contains an opening which is used to fasten the wheel to the rod of the stepper motor allowing the rotation of wheel by the motor. The wheel is shown to

The design of the encasing chamber which contains an opening for the rod of the stepper motor to pass through which supports the wheel/gear. The slots are designed for screws to affix the stepper motor.

Alternate design of the pill dispensing unit, where the base in “Design of a pill dispensing unit” is replaced by a higher angled sloping base of the pill holding chamber to allow dropping pills one at a time. The pill holding chamber is rounded on one end and right angled on the other end. However,

The design of a pill dispensing unit. The pill holding chamber and the tilted ground part, a sloping pill base forms the base of the pill holding chamber make a compartment to hold pills to be dispensed. The sloping pill base contains a round opening through which the pill is dropped on to the wheel/gear

the electronic circuit diagram of one module/unit of the pill dispenser system. The operation of the system is controlled by the Arduino Mega board. The Arduino Mega can be replaced by a smaller microchip to make the system size small without compromising the function of the system. A real time clock module is connected to

The following description outlines a flow chart of code 20 for Arduino Mega. The system is not limited to use Arduino Mega but any Arduino board such as Arduino Uno or a microchip could be used to store code and operate the machine. The replacement of the Arduino board with a microchip is desired to

A flow chart of code 10 for Android application customized using Unity Hub. The number of pills, time interval or a time and date and ID of motor i.e. the ID of unit is input on Android phone interface. The input goes through a JASON (JavaScript Object Notation) string and transmitted to the pill dispenser