Spotbox

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  LCD display showing the best song ever to grace the Earth.

Inspiration

We were inspired by old fashioned jukeboxes, however wanted to give it a modern twist with better technological integration

What it does

Uses Spotify API to select music upon input, sending it to a LCD display with a potentiometer and a button to choose among the search results. Upon pressing the button, the music plays from the "jukebox" speaker

How we built it

Using python to create an api and to interact with the Spotipy api. We also leveraged hardware such as a potentiometer and an LCD Screen.

Challenges we ran into

We had trouble having the potientiometer work to select from a list of songs, so we were unable to complete that aspect.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Having the API be accessable by other devices on the network and having it function as expected (begin playback of a user requested song on the target device).

What we learned

We learned a great deal about working with serial hardware and working with the Spotipy api.

What's next for Spotbox

We hope to continue working to complete the project, so it works exactly as we intended it to at the start of this hackathon. We want the potentiometer to work for selecting tracks, and to make a beautiful frontend for the jukebox. Hopefully using React Js.

Built With

• arduino
• html5
• python
• spotifyapi