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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. Re:Cool? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Umm... actually, the programming is very simple and not difficult. Perhaps you'll realize this when you learn something other than PHP yourself.

  2. Re:Cool? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, dude, I've been programming microcontrollers for several years now and there certainly were some stepper motors involved. But true, you'd never see me make something as pointless as this.

  3. Final Year Project?!? by JustKidding · · Score: -1, Troll
    This is a Final Year Project?!? I have a development board with a ATMEGA32 (the microcontroller they used) right next to me, with a ethernet card wired to it. I wrote the network card driver and TCP/IP stack in during a second year EE project. I'm currently writing a bit of code to receive HTTP requests and move a webcam with 2 stepper motors with a HTML web form.

    It seems a little bit to simple for a FYP to me.

    The LED display in the air thingy is what I build and wrote as my very first project!

  4. Sorry, but this has been done before... by feloneous+cat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Us old timers remember that this was featured in an article WAAAY back in the print and ink mags (BYTE? Dr. Dobbs? Brain gets old after a while). They also hooked up a computer to an etch-a-sketch.

    Way to go, kids, you re-invented the fucking wheel!!!

    --
    IANAL, but I've seen actors play them on TV