Bringing artists together Roberts, based in Las Vegas, started creating art on the Etch A Sketch when he was 15 ... like a masterful artwork on this child’s toy,” Gagliardi said.

[Mitxela] wanted to build a different kind of mouse, one that worked like an Etch-a-Sketch toy with one X knob and one Y knob. Armed with some rotary encoders and a microcontroller, that shouldn ...

Unless you’re some incredibly gifted individual with more dexterity than a fighter jet pilot, making anything on a Etch-a-Sketch is hard. So [Evan] decided to motorize it, and cheat a little bit.

Those two encoding knobs, the big plastic Etch A Sketch dials, stand proud on the ... using controls you first got to grips with as a child. Having both flavours of tremolo in on pedal is great.

Whether you just went nuts on the little knobs to see what you could come up with or you meticulously tried to create actual designs, the Etch a Sketch promised endless boredom cures. If you ...

Do you remember the Etch-a-Sketch? The popular ’60s toy that allowed you to draw simple pictures on some sort of blank canvas with two side controls? Now you can have it on your iPad, with EtchPad.