Happy 78th Birthday Robert Moog!
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1 min readNov 7, 2016
I have to say, I’ve always been a fan of Google’s Doodles, but was amazed to see todays Google Doodle — a tribute to the the Synth Father himself, Dr Robert Moog.
The actual Google Doogle is a fully playable Mini Moog ( well sort of fully playable! ).
Much like the musical machines Bob Moog created, this doodle was synthesized from a number of smaller components to form a unique instrument. When experienced with Google Chrome, sound is generated natively using the Web Audio API — a doodle first (for other browsers the Flash plugin is used). This doodle also takes advantage of JavaScript, Closure libraries, CSS3 and tools like Google Web Fonts, the Google+ API, the Google URL Shortener and App Engine,
