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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Using the front screen of 52-inch rear-projection Mitsubishi TV as their drawing board, here’s a fully-working Etch A Sketch that can hopefully be controlled by doodlers over the Internet some day soon.
I’ve never been a fan of billboard-type costumes—”I’m a lame YouTube video” or “I’m an iPhone”—but this giant Etch-a-Sketch costume is excellent. And it actually works. No, it’s not filled with aluminium powder (that could get dicey). It simplifies the setup to using a marker and glass, but the complicated rod and wires setup to make it draw blotchy boobs and penises exactly like the one you had as a kid (but bigger, and on this dude) makes it plenty props-worthy. Check it out in action in the video below.
Rakesh Reddy’s Remember-it-All mod brings Etch-a-Sketch nearly up to the 21st Century, by adding a memory and stepper motors to the toy. It ends up being a tad like the Etch-a-Sketch clock, but niftily when you switch it into record mode it copies your every move into memory. Throw a switch and your crappy straight-line art is recreated in front of your eyes. I say nearly 21st Century, ’cause a truly modern mod would automagically create the art for you, but this is still fun, and you can DIY it by following Rakesh’s instructions. [DesignNews via MAKE]
While most of us have acquired too many responsibilities to waste the day away with a good, marathon Etch-A-Sketch session, every time we pull out the laptop to get more work done we can at least dream of less productive times with this Etch-A-Sketch laptop case.
The Arduino platform has been the basis of some awesome projects in the past, but I have yet to see an application of the technology that is more fun than this Etch-a-Sketch clock. At the beginning of every minute, the device draws out the time in a matter of seconds and then erases it to start the process all over again the next minute. Fan freakin’ tastic. [Make]
Here’s a confession: I’ve always kind of hated the Etch-a-Sketch.
