Never play music alone again with a Lucky Cat LFO


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What is a Lucky Cat LFO?

Lucky Cat LFO is a musical companion whose solar-powered arm movement can lend a hand in your music making process. The popular  Lucky Cat or Maneki-neko toy has been augmented to track the arm movement, and out CV and GATE voltages for eurorack synthesizers.

The limit is your imagination on how it can be used, but here are some examples:


Modulate the cutoff frequency of your synthesizer with the CV output
Trigger a drum sound with the GATE output

Drive the clock signal of a sequencer

Add some vibrato to your synth playing powered the moving arm

 Use multiple cats together to generate automous ambient sound scapes

 And so much more!


What are the specs?

POWER INPUT:

Some sunshine required and

DC 9-12 volts  5.5x2.1mm  ~20ma

Center Positive OR Center Negative (eg guitar pedal power). 


 Multiple devices can be daisy chained together with a daisy chain cable
CV OUTPUT:

0 - 5 volts

GATE OUTPUT:

5 voltes


        





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How are the made?



 Each Lucky Cat is hand-selected from Grant Ave in Chinatown, San Francisco, to make sure it has good arm movement. It is then carefully opened and modified with an electronic sensor inserted to track the arm movement. This is hooked up to a custom circuit board, and calibrated for ideal CV ranges. The case is then 3d printed. The custom circuit board is fabricated in China (via JLCPCB). The schematic was developed in-house with influence of Forrest M. Mimms, and reviewed by a professional electrical engineer. Everything else has been designed and assembled in San Francisco, CA by Functional Technologies, LLC.





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Where can I get one?  


These are hand-made in very small batches (See “How are they made?”). 
The first edition batch has only 10 units with 3 of them kept for myself. 

You can contact me directly to inquire. I will also be listing them directly online soon.






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