Etch A Sketch clock automatically draws, redraws time
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 8th 2008 4:20PM
posted Mar 8th 2008 4:20PM
[Via MAKE, thanks Nick]
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An Ode… of Retraction
Headline after next, I scour the news,
My poor heart sinking from the ‘giveaway’ blues.
No mail in my inbox, all the worse my condition,
Was I wrong, did I have so much misplaced ambition?
I fell for that post-script, fell hook line and sinker,
And chased the red-herring (oh boy I’m a stinker).
“P.S, stick close by,” what a big load of hooey!
What am I to you, chop liver, chop-suey?
iPhone this, Ballmer that, did I really swing out?
No x-three-sixty, ‘cept for that Christmas pout.
Thats it, I’ll redouble my efforts at once!
(Though ill risk coming out as a low-ranking dunce)
MacBook Air, EPA, PS3 tattoo blunder,
How might we tear Cloudbook’s rear-end asunder?
Stu Reed, QuantumSphere, and birth txting disparaged,
Did that guy really code his way into marriage?
H-Dee, Dee-vee-dee, how we knew you so little,
Will you write, will you call, will we be noncommittal?
SDKs, PSPs, CeBIT raids by the hour,
I’d go on, but I’m sure you can tell I’m just sour.
And that’s where this message comes to an end,
I know what you’re thinking, “but will his prose blend?”
Will there yet be some heart, will you check your stock room?
Just… whatever you send me, please make sure it plays doom.
Wow. +1.
That being said, this etch-a-sketch program is most excellent. I for one welcome our more artistic overlord emo-bots.
"But dad, I dont want to kill humans... I want to create."
Well done!
One note, though: "Will his prose blend?"
I believe this would qualify as poetry, not prose. I assume you used a little poetic license, since the word poetry would not have fit, rhythmically.
Still, you are quite talented, Mr. Sottek!
Pwnage
A+ sir, you have made my day.
I don't know if most people here know about that emo.
...nor Proog.
Awesome, truly awesome! :D
Did he just spend an hour writing that and keep refreshing the homepage til there was a new article with 0 comments?
It's just a "OMG FIRST!!!!" with lots of icing on top.
u r totally awesome
=]
u made my night... morning
This is sweet.
All I came up with was taping a monkey to an etch a sketch.... this is much better....
This thing is awsome. I wonder about the programming and what type of microchip he used. But then again I am a geek.
Not entirely geeky to wonder about the programming as I have enough issues drawing anything except stairs on an E-A-S, let alone showing the computer how to make 10 different digits.
Love it!!!
note the Simpson's "Professor Frink" action figure to the side. The sign of a true genius at work.
Looks great. Now all they need to work on is a nice curvy font.
After all, if you have CNC, why stick to what a person can do?
Wow, what a shitty video player. Ads DURRING THE VIDEO?
Why the fuck would anyone use this?
Confused... I got no ads
generally when you see an X on a computer screen, when you click it, the thing it is attached to dissapears
Any chance that it could be sped up to draw each second too? ;-)
What happens if I shake it?
you don't shake it. it shakes you.
Only in Soviet Russia.
Do etch-a-sketch babies get shaking baby syndrome?
wait...shaken baby syndrome
Pardon my French, but.... That's F***in' awesome.
Excuse my French but, Limitez-vous contre les jurons, s’il vous plaît.
WANT TO BUY
Me too.
Do you wish to add grammar to your shopping basket sir?
i WANT TO BUY the etch-a-clock :)
grammar takes too long! where is "BUY NOW" button!
I think sheer impracticality is the touchstone of its greatness. I want it without knowing why I want it.
The guy that filmed it... Why does he move so... fast? o_O
Never mind, I'm just on crack...?
Make it small enought to fit into a wristwatch, add a back light and I'll buy it.
haha yeah an etch a sketch would make a GREAT wristwatch. hey why dont we add the kinetic charging to it like a lot of other wristwatches, you know, where shaking it powers it...
haha that would be sweet though, you'd just never know what time it was.
Didn't you notice the oldschool Casio in the video? Those things pwn.
I had one of those!
Brilliant :D
All it misses is a Stylophone bot add-on for playing Big Ben chimes on the hour.
WANT
Oh dear, pardon the pun, but someone's got far too much time on their hands.
Just noticed that my Windows XP Pro hasn't changed the time this morning.
Sheesh.
Hope it has some sort of burn in reduction...
Wait a second. This doesn't make any sense at all... he is already wearing a watch.
This is way better than my 2002 Etch-a-sketch mod
http://www.blackfeathermedia.com/etcher/
I only had a lowsy basic stamp to control it.
amazin...