Since many patients are required to take multiple pills, it was decided that the pill dispenser would need to have multiple separate levels for every different pill. 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. Since devices such as motors and solenoids are rated at much higher voltages and currents than the microcontroller can provide directly, an external power source is “allowed” to power the device by powering a transistor. The use of the motor with attached propellers allowed the pills to be placed in a correct position in the pill slider that delivers the pill. It also serves as a way to keep surrounding pills from falling into the pill slider and thus “jamming” the pill dispenser. Last, the proximity sensor and key, which were provided by Keri Systems, allowed our entire system to be initiated and begin dispensing pills. A simple program allowed us to run the solenoids and motor for a given time interval.