With the rapidly evolving situation surrounding the Redbox vending machines still out in the wild, it’s about time somebody put together a Wiki to keep it all straight.
The unredbox wiki has information on the various different hardware revisions that Redbox put out into the wild, from the regular outdoor machines to the weird indoor blue variant. The site also has breakdowns on individual components. For example, it covers the computers inside the machines, built by Dell, Lenovo, and Premio, and bits and pieces like the DVD carousel and the modems used inside.
Basically, if you’re working with these machines and you don’t have a manual, this resource could help you out. As could the neat video below that shows the internals of a Redbox machine during the reloading process.
Whatever you do, though, don’t steal the kiosks. There’s folks handling that already, you’re not allowed to just walk up and haul them away. Check out our earlier coverage of people that are still out there renting from these machines, too.
Now someone just needs to invent a very thin and strong sammich to replace the DVDs.
Rectangular quesadillas, flatbread pizzas, or some kind of pita variant?
I don’t know what happened to my other response, but here it is again (or about so):
Why not all of those. There’s enough room in the machine.
If i lived in the states, i’d drive my van next to one of those redboxes, throw it in and put it next to my square top soda vending machine and wait for the sammich miracle to happen.
Or cut out every other slat :)
That is a possible approach, if the machine can handle a triple thick object both physically and locationwise.
Redbox machine doesn’t let me return my movies. How can I reach them or return my movie?
Even if they were not bankrupt, I doubt they would want the Boarderlands Movie rentals back.
You own it now. They are completely shut down. There will be no more charges or fines. I have already been contracted to remove two machines myself. I have saved about 1,000 DVDs from them.
You don’t have to.
How deep are those? I was thinking gut it down to just the enclosure then build a large format 3d printer into it.
Not that using it to dispense things wouldn’t be cool to.
Maybe sandwich components between a couple pieces of cardboard to make them roughly DVD size/shape and put them in the local hackerspace?
Was just curious, so I went to facebook marketplace set the radius wide and sure enough…. redboxes for sale $200-600. Not interested in buying one myself but thought id share the tip