Video: HD Etch A Sketch for giant doodlers

Jeri Ellsworth (who previously fashioned a totally superb, functioning NES purse) has cobbled together a gigantic Etch A Sketch using a 52-inch projection television, some tent poles, a golf tee and gear-reduced motors. The sketcher uses aluminum powder, just like in the traditional toy, and they plan on eventually enabling it for IRC bot control. Check the video after the break to see it in action, and get a glimpse of how it was constructed.

[Thanks, Hack A Day]

[(Unverified) Posted May 13th 2009 8:25PM]

pretty cool, am i first? :D

[Ethan Posted May 13th 2009 9:20PM]

Want to be first? Move to Kiribati. Or queue for a bus on a Sunday.

[(Unverified) Posted May 13th 2009 9:21PM]

lol lighten up.

[nicksilvestri Posted May 13th 2009 8:32PM]

That's probably the coolest thing I've ever seen.

[AMiSHPiRACY Posted May 13th 2009 11:06PM]

are you sure you didn't see the video of two cats have a chicken fight on top of two roombas?

[(Unverified) Posted May 13th 2009 8:38PM]

Veronica Belmont turned ginger + creepy guy with curls?

[abbazaba Posted May 13th 2009 8:51PM]

Agent 1: I'm just gonna go draw boobs on the Etch-A-Sketch.
Agent 2: Go ahead, they always come out square anyway.

[(Unverified) Posted May 13th 2009 8:52PM]

what id im a giant diddler?

[Blaine Posted May 13th 2009 8:55PM]

Why? Why?

[HarZens Posted May 13th 2009 8:57PM]

because they can :D

[zman Posted May 13th 2009 9:45PM]

why not?

[racr Posted May 13th 2009 9:10PM]

i was just lookin at that on hackaday!

[(Unverified) Posted May 13th 2009 9:18PM]

That is pretty cool but a giant pain in the ass to "erase" if they had a automated way to erase it that would be pretty awesome.

[AMiSHPiRACY Posted May 13th 2009 11:07PM]

that would undermine half the fun of an etch-a-sketch!

[(Unverified) Posted May 13th 2009 10:17PM]

fatmanandcircuitgirl? really?

[(Unverified) Posted May 13th 2009 10:40PM]

i'd etch her sketch

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 5:45AM]

Hehehe... but seriously?

[(Unverified) Posted May 13th 2009 11:32PM]

Finally Autodesk secrets revealed on how they made Autocad and the rest of their products...

[(Unverified) Posted May 14th 2009 12:04AM]

Her C-One was awesome...I have a lot of respect for self-taught people like her.

[(Unverified) Posted May 14th 2009 1:39AM]

1:08 is the best part.Sounds like the reporter likes etch-a-sketching a bit too much.

[Podaman Posted May 14th 2009 10:32AM]

HOO!

[bdav Posted May 14th 2009 5:45AM]

She can take the chip out of my DLP tv if you know what I mean......

[Melvin Posted May 14th 2009 8:55AM]

Can I have a giant kindle next?

[(Unverified) Posted May 14th 2009 11:36AM]

I just made a giant doodle this morning. I feel sorry for the guy that went into the bathroom after me. Yowzers!

[CityZen Posted May 14th 2009 1:07PM]

The girl is amazing. I vote her to be the first person to be mass-cloned.

(Or at least, I hope she has many daughters who are just like her.)

[(Unverified) Posted May 14th 2009 5:59PM]

will you marry me?