Turn Your iPad Into a Digital Etch-a-Sketch With Etcher - morrismenced

Before tablets, Manuscript Blusher, computers, operating room heck, flat paper (Sooner State, that last part is a flat-out lie), the only cool way to draw a picture was with an Etch-a-Vignette. Nowadays, the minds behind the Etcher Kickstarter platform want to make for the classic aluminum pulverisation board into the digital present with an iPad add-connected.

Etcher is a specially configured case/dockage that imitates classic old Etch-a-Sketch. It works like one, too, complete with those two directional knobs. The corresponding l Etch-a-Sketch app lets you save and plowshare your line drawings. And yes, turn the iPad upside-down and shaking it will erase your drawing.

The Etcher team needs contributions to set about a shot molding yield line of work so they can start up manufacturing the plastic Etcher bodies. Underneath the shell, the energetic knobs touch base to an Atmel microcontroller gameboard that's linked directly to the iPad's docking port.

Right now, you can buoy lend as an early adopter to pick up your own red ink Etcher for a special $45 pledge. If you'Ra late to the company of the showtime 100 crude adopters, you stool contribute $60 for a bloody or naughty Etcher.

But hold, there's more! If the project meets its funding goal of $75,000, the Etcher squad will release its iOS code under an open-source certify. With the source code, you could form your possess knob-controlled games (think Pong or Battlezone). Tributary at the hacker grade ($175) will get you early developer hardware and software program, a final production model, and a vote on which open-seed license the Etcher app will be released low-level.

Updated Crataegus laevigata 10, 2012 to make a minor correction regarding the Etcher manufacturing cognitive operation.

[Etcher: Etch A Sketch for iPad (Kickstarter)]