The Moof Tronic Mini Synth
New sounds from a truly tiny instrument.
MoofTronic players get the lead out.
Photography by Brian McNamara
I was playing around with a Picaxe microcontroller one day, trying to make a little keyboard. I wanted to build an absolutely minimal hardware frame that I could put together quickly without a circuit board.
The result was the MoofTronic — a small electronic instrument built on a 24-pin IC socket. To play 8 different notes (1 octave in the key of C) against a fast-modulation drone, you touch a stylus to 8 legs of the socket. It also has a small antenna that you can touch to add an effect to the ...
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