If you want to give people more options without forcing a playlist, Instructables user LifegraphLabs shows off a system that uses RFID, an Arduino, and Facebook to play everyone's favorites songs.

Each Arduino mimics a different instrument: one plays the bongos, another plays the bass, and the third plays the snare drum. It’s like training wheels, for beat-boxers.

1. Arduino Uno: The brain of the jukebox, responsible for reading NFC tags and sending commands to play music. 2. NFC Shield: This component reads the NFC tags embedded in the discs. 3.

Makers, electronic enthusiasts and hobbyists looking for a new project to keep them busy this weekend may be interested in a new Arduino music player andMakers, electronic enthusiasts and ...

This nifty Arduino project combines music and tinkering: build a visualizer that reacts to any song playing in your surroundings.

The basic premise here is that you're adding Bluetooth to the your old iPod using an Arduino and then sharing that music library to an Android app. As you'd expect, the real tricky part is ...

In order to play songs, the tones have to either be directly coded and uploaded to the Arduino, composed with a random note generator, or detected from a microphone. While a real flute can be used ...

In order to play songs, the tones have to either be directly coded and uploaded to the Arduino, composed with a random note generator, or detected from a microphone. While a real flute can be used ...

Check out these rather special Arduino-based machines that play music and dispense drinks... Thanks to Steve Bush, out technology editor, for highlighting these, with additional components including ...