Programmer Rajkumar C Madhuram has demonstrated how easy it is to make your own music-playing device with an Arduino. His project can play five different Christmas-themed tunes and also control LEDs so they blink in relation to the music. This project would be easily embedded inside a variety of objects or decorations to add another level to the usual Christmas decorations. You can hear an example of the tunes in the following video:
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