I had a kiosk software company for several years. Sold my part to my partners in 2008. We used Windows embedded for the hardware most of the time (until Mac Min

I had a kiosk software company for several years. Sold my part to my partners in 2008. We used Windows embedded for the hardware most of the time (until Mac Minis came out) and Flash for the front end. I built out a Lua based server that lived on each of our units and communicated back to home base for updates using svnlib to grab changes. It was a pretty neat system, lots of hardware integrations and so on. Super fun. Lua was nice because its FFI is so pleasant to use. Flash was absolutely amazing for handling the UI. Our kiosks looked _so_ much better than all of the other hideous Motif-style UIs out there. Hell they looked better than most kiosks still look these days. If you lived in Australia in the 00s and ever stepped foot in a Westfield or Stockland mall you'd have seen some of our kiosks.