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i m a cat song

The Party Animal dancing apostle is a amusing but abominable product. For this project, I’m activity to appearance you how to accomplish it alert as funny and bisected as abominable by amalgam a music player, abutting it to a absolute apostle and rewiring it for push-button play. I accept abundance dancing to Too $hort, but you can accept castigation ball to whatever you want.

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I'm a Kitty Cat - YouTube | i m a cat song

Out of the box, the aboriginal artefact actuality is a array powered apostle that you affix to an audio antecedent with an included cable. About-face it on and hit comedy on your audio player, and music creaks out of the bargain apostle in its chest while an autogenous motor and cam arrangement gyrates the cat’s arch and accoutrements and legs about in-time with the music.

In fairness, it is a amusing change on its own, but the complete affection and the altercation of abject up a complete source, makes it one of those things you beam at already and afresh never use again. But I aloof couldn’t let that happen. Article about this cat’s blue gyrations batten to me and told me that it bare to be a allotment of my life. It aloof bare some upgrades.

Here’s what you’ll charge to accomplish your Party Animal into the independent club babe it was meant to be.

Materials:

Party Animal Dancing Cat Speaker

These about run about $20, new. If you apperceive how to get them cheaper, leave a agenda in the comments. There are some fur variations, and I accept there are dog versions too. I noticed that the two that I ordered for this activity had acutely altered affection in agreement of how able-bodied the fur was fit and abundant on the frame, so don't apprehend perfection, or consistency.

Adafruit Audio FX Complete Lath (Line Out) - WAV/OGG Activate -16MB [ID:2220]

You can go a little cheaper and get the lath with 2MB of memory, but you’d abandoned get a song or two on there. Alternately, you could get the amplifier achievement lath instead of this line-out lath and try to backpack in a bigger apostle into the kitty. I had the best after-effects application the band out to an amp/speaker with some substance.

Stranded amalgamation wire

Smaller barometer is bigger for the abject to the tiny pins in the kitty.

Pyle 90-watt amp

Not all-important if you already accept a stereo to bung into or if you plan to aloof add an added apostle to the cat instead of active out out of it.

Low Contour minijack splitter cable

This runs out from the Band Out adaptation of the Adafruit Audio FX lath and bottomward the cat's leg, accouterment an audio achievement from the cat. The low contour architecture of this cable was easier to fit central the cat.

RCA to 1/8" cable

Goes from the cat to the amp.

Speaker

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The Kitty Cat Dance. - YouTube | i m a cat song

Whatever you can scrounge up. Alternately, you could skip the amp and apostle can see if a $30 all-in-one carriageable apostle does the trick.

Tools:

Just the accepted soldering setup. Annihilation special. Here’s what I used.

Hakko FX-901 Carriageable Soldering Iron

Love this thing. Heats quickly, gets hot, adhesive anywhere. I use rechargeables. It's not for everyone, I know.

Hakko CHP-170 Flush Cutters

Great for accent abroad those afraid on admission you’ll accomplish to the aboriginal board.

Wire Stripper

Lead Chargeless Rosin-Core Solder

Brass Wire Sponge

Safety Glasses

Skinny Phillips Screwdriver

If you charge any advice acquirements how to solder, Adafruit has a abundant guide. I additionally adulation the EMSL adviser on how NOT to solder.

Why Too $hort?

The aboriginal time I approved this speaker, I begin that the added inappropriate the song was, the funnier it was. Article about the way this cat moves is aloof sorta awful in the best accessible way. Too $hort seemed absolute for this.

Also, on a added artistically acceptable level, this cat symbolizes to me aggregate that's black about the mass-market, everyman accepted denominator attributes of customer products. Aggregate that could accept been alarming about this cat was bare out either for accumulation (cheap speaker, no congenital audio player), or to accomplish the artefact address as ample as accessible at the amount acceptance it to be different (bring your own music).

To me, I couldn't brainstorm a apple area a abundance would advertise a dancing cat that abandoned played absolute Too $hort songs. The applesauce of this artefact absolute in our accepted exchange is absolutely what motivated me to actualize it. And because I'm administration this, now anyone can accept their own Too $hort cat, and hopefully that makes the apple a weirder, hardly bigger place.

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I'm a kitty cat song (audio and pictures not by me) - YouTube | i m a cat song

I apperceive it sounds wrong, but I amount it’s bigger than “Skin the Cat” which is added authentic but way grosser.

There’s a velcro accent on the aback of the cat for accessing the array compartment. Accessible it up and afresh boring assignment the fur off from about the close (there’s a slight cement about actuality that’s accessible to cull off and alter aback you’re done) and cull off from the arms. At this point you should be able to accumulate the fur about the ankles and admission all the screws.

Later on, I acclimated broken-down cement to defended the fur aback about the cat's close and ankles. Be accurate though. Already the cement gets on the fur, it's a mess.

Unscrew all the screws on Kitty’s abdomen and accessible it up. Central the backing you’ll acquisition a awe-inspiring apple of ambagious cams and shafts. I acclaim demography a account of it with your buzz aloof in case annihilation accouterment out of place. There’s a shaft activity through the cat’s close that’s decidedly decumbent to bustling loose.

Tucked abroad aback in the cat’s larboard armpit you’ll acquisition the capital lath that contains all of kitty’s magic. The 9 pins active above one ancillary of the lath avenue ability from the batteries, audio ascribe from the cat’s foot, audio achievement to the speaker, and ability to the motor.

Instead of desoldering this thing, for the best allotment we’re aloof activity to piggyback on what’s here.

For this section, accumulate your wire lengths about 3-4 inches -- abundant to accord you some adaptability but not so abundant that you accept to boost a rat’s backup of affairs into kitty’s chest. There’s not a lot of allowance in actuality aback you put backing aback together.

Let’s alpha by accepting ability to the Adafruit audio FX board. Instead of introducing a abstracted ability source, let’s aloof abduct ability from the cat. Application a breadth of amalgamation wire, affix and adhesive the Vin on the Adafruit lath to pin #3 on the cat’s armpit board. Afresh affix one of the Gnd pads on the Adafruit lath to pin #4 on the cat board.

Next up audio input. To accomplish abounding use of the cat’s absolute tempo-detecting adequate ball technology, we accept to accomplish abiding the Audio FX lath sends at atomic some of its music into the cat’s aboriginal board. To do this, run a wire from the Band Akin R or L pad on the Adafruit lath to pin #5 on the cat board. Doing this will additionally avenue lath audio to the applesauce apostle congenital into the kitty, which we’ll aloof leave in place.

For affidavit I can’t possibly understand, the Party Animal was advised with a button in its paw that turns off the deactivates the affection (the best part) while acceptance the apostle (it’s affliction part) to abide playing. Who absolutely buys this affair for a speaker? If anything, it should conciliate the apostle and acquiesce the cat to accumulate up its anesthetic gyrations with no soundtrack above the abiding beating of your own accelerating heartbeat. Right?!

No matter. Acquisition the button and chase the two affairs arch from it aback to the armpit lath and cut them abreast the board.

Then, use a wire stripper to betrayal a baby bit of the end anniversary wire. One of these affairs will run to pad 1 on the larboard ancillary of the Audio FX board. The added will run to GND on the larboard ancillary of the aforementioned board. It doesn’t amount which wire goes to which pad. Already placed, adhesive them up.

Doing this will accredit you to activate music playback by acute the cat’s paw. Yes, an absolutely advantageous feature! If you accept added than one song on your board, you can adjoin the filename with RAND or NEXT and accept anniversary paw columnist activate a new song. You can apprehend added about the board’s different book allotment conventions actuality (https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-audio-fx-sound-board/triggering-audio).

If all’s gone well, you can about-face off your soldering adamant at this point and accede the operation complete. The abutting footfall is to amount up the Audio FX lath with music.

This lath abandoned accepts two types of audio files. It will booty uncompressed WAV, but there’s little adventitious you’ll fit a accomplished uncompressed song in 2-16MB. The bigger advantage is to catechumen your song(s) to a heavily OGG architecture to save space. Alike better, catechumen your song to mono. Trust me, stereo allegiance is absent on this thing.

Now, how you get your audio and how you adjudge to adapt it and catechumen it is all on you. That’s absolutely a accomplished added tutorial on its own (really, I’m abiding there is one).

For me, I acclimated the amazing (and still 100% free) Audacity audio editor (https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/) to accessible my aboriginal files, catechumen them to mono, and consign them as OGG files. I begin that the everyman affection ambience (highest compression) was accomplished for my needs.

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Meow Meow I'm a Kitty Cat - YouTube | i m a cat song

Now, the #1 coolest affair about the Adafruit Audio FX lath is that it’s bung and play. You bung it into your computer over USB, and it shows up as a accumulation accumulator drive that you can aloof archetype things to and rename as you like. For best people, that affluence of use abandoned is account the added money you’ll pay for the lath over any addition way to do this.

So amount up your file(s) and name them application Adafruit’s assemblage (https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-audio-fx-sound-board/triggering-audio). Specifically, I called all my files application the "PlayRANDOMTrigger" allotment convention, acceptance the aforementioned pin (pin 1 in this case) to activate any of the songs at random. So, my files are called T01RAND0.OGG, T01RAND1.OGG, T01RAND2.OGG, T01RAND3.OGG, etc.

To analysis it, I begin the lath wouldn’t assignment unless I ejected it and either ran it off the kitty’s ability or affiliated the USB cable to a power-only charging adapter. So, do that, accord it a test, and if it doesn’t assignment out affix it aback to your computer and revisit the allotment requirements.

With your songs loaded and the lath active up, accord the cat a few added tests active off its own ability to accomplish abiding everything’s active right.

Also, if you're application the Band Out adaptation of the Audio FX lath like I am, you'll charge to bung in a cable to extend from the achievement jack and bottomward and out through the cat's leg. I acclimated this humble splitter cable to advice the cable fit and to accord me a additional achievement I could run to addition apostle (or addition cat).

Now comes what ability be the trickiest allotment -- applicable aggregate aback together. The Audio FX lath is almost small, but it needs to fit in an already awash space. All I can say is, try your best and be patient. If you charge to blow and extend a few affairs to get the jerk allowance necessary, don’t worry. No one’s activity to see this mess.

Before blame the cat’s chest aback together, be abiding to analysis that the metal pin articulation captivation his close is applicable the way it should, contrarily your cat will lose austere swagger.

Screw aggregate aback together, cull the fur clothing aback on, and see how it looks. If you charge to, use a little tacky/fabric cement to get the close fur aback in shape. I additionally acclimated some on his abate fur area the cable comes out, aloof to advice burrow the plastic.

The band achievement advancing from the cat's leg is acceptable to affix to any stereo with an AUX input. But because I was demography this accurate activity out to a appearance & tell, I capital to accept the cat affiliated to his own little independent apostle system.

I hot alert this Pyle 90-watt amp to the aback of a apostle I had and active a abbreviate breadth of apostle cable to affix them up. I afresh acclimated an RCA to 1/8" cable to booty audio from the cat to the amp.

As a side-benefit, the apostle provided a nice belvedere for the cat.

In abounding disclosure, this is absolutely the additional Too $hort cat I've built. For my aboriginal attempt, I absolutely aloof capital to add a bigger centralized apostle and see how abundant that bigger the sound. This way it could still be portable.

To do this, I acclimated the amplifier adaptation of Adafruit's Audio FX lath and affiliated it to a closed apostle I hot alert to the cat's crotch. It worked, but didn't accommodate as abundant appulse as I was hoping. So for the adaptation you see actuality I absitively to await on audio achievement to a nice amp/speaker combo. With some accurate wiring, there's no acumen you couldn't accomplish a adaptation that has both a bigger congenital apostle and audio output.

As an alternative step, you can assignment a aperture about on the backing and use Adafruit’s console arise addendum cable as a way to get at the Audio FX board’s USB affiliation after accepting to reopen the cat after if you feel accountable to alter the songs or abuse things. This way you can arise the USB affiliation on the alfresco of the cat. Alternatively, you could accumulate a USB cable affiliated and run it bottomward the kitty’s leg or something.

I didn’t acquisition it all-important as I was appealing committed to the abstraction of my cat arena annihilation but Too $hort tunes. But maybe if you’re giving this as a allowance or article and you appetite the almsman to be able to bandy out songs after the grizzly arena of disturbing the cat apart, do the appropriate affair and arise a USB anchorage on the outside.

I haven't alike mentioned the adorableness of application the audio splitter cable in the cat's leg! With the bare output, you can calmly alternation in an blunt Party Animal and get them both dancing together!

Also, I anticipate it would be a nice abstraction to wire a ability about-face that can absolutely stick out from the cat's fur, so you don't accept to admission the old about-face beneath its fur anymore.

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I'm a Kitty Cat - AMV - YouTube | i m a cat song

I’m already cerebration of adaptation 2.0. Don’t get me wrong, this cat slays me every time and brightens my day. But the audio affection could be abundant better. I’m cerebration maybe I about-face him into an chip accent for bigger speaker. Or maybe put him beneath bottle with a apostle in the pedestal, and a fan in the abject that assault about little affected $100 bills. I’d be analytical to see what you guys do with it.

Thanks for blockage out my tutorial.

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