Perhaps the heart of the pill dispenser is the manipulation and use of a solenoid to “pop” a pill from the pill reservoir to the pill delivery chute. Because of the space constraints of the cylindrical pill dispenser an armature was designed with a brass rod to properly extend the pill slider, which delivers the pill to the pill delivery chute. As described above, our device utilized four transistors to properly control the motor and solenoids off and on state from the microcontroller.