Engineer Alan Argondizza has recreated the popular Etch-a-Sketch childrens' toy and made it much more user-friendly by way of an Arduino board, external circuitry and a PC. Instead of controlling an original board, or making their own - his "Compy Sketch" has knobs which are read by an Arduino wihch sends the commands off to the PC. The resulting works of art are then displayed on a custom piece of software that Alan has developed and made available for three main platforms. You can even save your work for later review - something the original could never do...
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