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Escher: Etch-a-Sketch As A Service
For better or for worse, the tech world has fully committed to pushing as many of their products into “The Cloud” as possible. Of course, readers of Hackaday see right through the corporate buzzwords. It’s all just a fancy way of saying you have to poke some server over the Internet every time you want to use the service. In a way, [Matt Welsh] has perfectly demonstrated this concept with Escher. It’s a normal Etch-a-Sketch, but since somebody else owns it and you’ve got to have an active Internet connection to use it, that makes it an honorary citizen of the Cloud.
Escher takes the form of a 3D printed mount and replacement knobs for the classic drawing toy that allow two NEMA 17 steppers to stand in for human hands. Thanks to the clever design, [Matt] can easily pull the Etch-a-Sketch out and use it the old fashioned way, though admittedly the ergonomics of holding onto the geared knobs might take a little getting used to. But who wants to use their hands, anyway?
[...] It probably will come as little surprise to hear this isn’t the first automatic Etch-a-Sketch that’s graced these pages over the years, but this might be the most fully realized version we’ve seen yet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @02:31AM (2 children)
These folks might not be so happy about the use of "Escher" ??
https://mcescher.com/ [mcescher.com]
M. C. Escher was an amazing and unique artist, for anyone that doesn't know. The cloud-a-sketch guy could have at least explained where the name came from and sent people to the official site...I searched the link and no mention at all.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday December 20 2019, @07:51AM (1 child)
According to that web site, as it presents itself to me, M. C. Escher made 0 Litographs, Woodcuts and Wood Engravings.
I assume that number would change if I enabled JavaScript.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @05:19PM
Yep, I see:
448
Lithographs,
Woodcuts and Wood
Engravings