E-Green Jukebox: The Development of an Electronic Jukebox That Accept Aluminium Can as Token

Abstract

Jukebox has been part of the outside dining experience in the western family restaurant in the year 1940s to 1990s. The progression of technology in entertainment industry makes the jukebox become obsolete due to the relatively expensive price to play a song from the jukebox. At the same time, most of the shopping mall food court in Malaysia required the customers to self-service and self-clean after dinning. One of the problem encountered is the customers do not usually separate the waste when throwing the waste. This project aims to revitalize the jukebox by reintroducing the song machine with a slight twist, the token used is aluminum can. This is to encourage the customers who purchase can drink in the shopping mall food court to recycle the aluminum can and in the same time to enjoy the retro feeling of dining experience with song played by jukebox. This paper presented the development of this jukebox called Green Jukebox. The result shows the potential of the prototype for the real application.