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Etch-A-Sketch Clock Automatically Draws the Time


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]

7:30 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Sean Fallon
8,891 views, 22 comments

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Controlling an Etch-a-Sketch with a Mouse Might Make it Actually Fun

Here's a confession: I've always kind of hated the Etch-a-Sketch. More »

12:50 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Adam Frucci
7,386 views, 24 comments

Latest by ManekiNeko: A serial port?! Damn, that mouse is older than the Etch-A-Sketch! Still a pretty neat mod, though. more »

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Operation Pen Makes Playing Doctor Fun Again

While we opted not to go to med school—a choice that we celebrate every day by working in our underwear (though also a choice we regret after catching ourselves in the eye once with a Wicked Laser, true story)—the scales may have tipped were this Operation Pen around several years back. Your favorite game on an obnoxiously oversized writing device, the organs are even fastened to the game with string so you don't lose all the pieces during your first particularly shaky weekend after losing rights to that prescription pad.

The Etch a Sketch pen is neat, too. Both run $5.50. [Product Page via nerdapproved]

2:00 PM on Sun Feb 3 2008
By Mark Wilson
3,773 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: I've seen both of these at TOYS R US or CVS drugs for a while now. The Etchasketch is usually really horrible, and the line isn't straight usually, it's all askew. I never tried the Operation one. But it's cute for nostalgia's more »