An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together

An enterprising engineer has turned an old parking meter into a jukebox using a Pi Zero 2 and some open source code.

Reddit user Connect_Use2528 began the project when their wife asked them to paint a decommissioned parking meter baby pink. The lock was drilled out and the pondering began. Could this old bit of urban architecture be turned into a jukebox?

There is plenty of precedent for transforming objects into jukeboxes using a humble Raspberry Pi. A good example is the Phoniebox project, now approaching version 3 and providing a way to play audio files, playlists, podcasts, and Spotify streams triggered by RFID cards. According to the project, it's "all plug and play via USB, no soldering iron needed."

Connect_Use2528 has taken the meter's shell and popped some RFID chips onto cards that can be used to access playlists, adjust the volume, and pause playback. Inserting a ...