Welcome to the website of the Automated Medication Dispensing System for Prisoners!

This is the website for Group 4 of the 2007-2008 FAMU-FSU Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Project. Our industry sponsor is Dr. Lonnie Draper of Avocare, a local company specializing in technological advancements in the medical industry. A link to the Avocare website can be found below.

Under the guidance of Dr. Draper and his team at Avocare, and with the help of our faculty adviser, Dr. Carl Moore, we have constructed an automated machine that selects and extracts individual pills. This system is to be implemented in the prison system, where the methods of delivering medications to inmates is overly cumbersome and time intensive.

Project Scope: "Design and build an automated device that will be able to provide the correct medication to prisoners. It must store a large amount of pills and identify, acquire, and deliver the proper medication in 30-90 seconds."

Below is a picture of the final product:

Please feel free to browse the rest of the website for information about our project. There are also videos of the working system in the Video & Downloads section of the site.