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Build Your Own Electric Etch-A-Sketch

Posted by michael on from the reboot-by-shaking dept.

mhaisley writes "Ok, case mods are cool, monitor mods are nifty... but an Electric Etch-a-Sketch beats either. Students at Cornell University built an electronically controlled etch-a-sketch, controllable by a PC mouse. This was part of a group of class final projects featured by their instructor."

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  1. Fractals are where its at... by frostbane · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think they should just drop the mouse, hook it up to a computer and draw fractals. That would be a really cool project and it would make some pretty cool results.

  2. Wouldn't it be cool by LeahofRivendell · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you could use the expandable shapes like the circles and rectangles and stuff in most paint programs and the machine would just make it?

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  3. The cheapest item on the BOM would be ... by syrinje · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...the Etch-a-Sketch itself (yeah, yeah, I know they got it for free but you could source one for a dollar). I am impressed with this project as a teaching aid. Combines a whole lot slew of concepts in one fun project! So what if it isnt practical - technlogia gratia artis.

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  4. Forget the etch a sketch. STM project by mpn14tech · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A class a few years earlier built an scanning tunneling microscope. http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/Fin alProjects/s2002/sm242/index.htm

  5. And yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... articles about nifty microcontroller projects like the laser-based Iridium flare tracker get rejected. Go figure.