I fully agree with you that for any other purposes, I'd go the next step and request that documentation. I frankly am not interested in any value on the etch-a-sketch, it certainly is more sentimental to me as a toy from my childhood. I printed out all the correspondence and have placed it in the box. The pictures I sent her were more exact and pinpointed than the one I posted above. My correspondence with Ohio Art was merely through e-mails and via Linda Cuellar who is the Executive Assistant to the Chairman, CEO and President of Ohio Arts (at least that's what her title read). I think I would ask them for that sort of letter for your own use.maybe notarized ?
Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.I hope they (Ohio Art) sent you a letter you can use to prove what you're saying, that would make this unique. \"Sexually?\" Ha, that scale would never be so kind.\n\nKeep going for the video, as well as one of the camera drawing in real time, but if you want to build one yourself Martin has step-by-step instructions (including downloadable scripts and code) on his website HERE. Do you know what the scale said I weighed this morning? \"What?\" Nothing, it pretended its batteries were low so I'd get off. Or past the moon, I don't care, just as long as I escape earth's incessant gravity. But in this case, the commands are sent to the stepper motors which spin the Etch A Sketch's upgraded knobs to move its drawing tip accordingly.\n\nMan, if you can build an Etch-A-Sketch camera, what can't you build? I bet Martin has the skills and knowledge to get me to the moon. There was no reason to go overboard with the megapixels as every photo snapped is reduced to just 240 x 144-pixels in size, and then downgraded to a 1-bit color palette-black and white.\n\n\nThe low-res image is then processed and converted to plotter commands, which is a type of printer that works similarly to an Etch A Sketch physically drawing out an image by moving a pen along X and Y coordinates. Classic circle of life:\n\n Fitzpatrick built his Etch-A-Snap around a Raspberry Pi Zero upgraded with stepper motors, a custom 3D-printed frame and gearing to control the miniature Etch A Sketch display, and a basic digital camera on the back.
Some more info while I tear open and eat all the metal filings in a Wooly Willy magnetic toy to spite my mom for not cutting the crust off my PB&J two days in a row, presumably to spite me for not making my bed two days in a row. \n\nThis is a video demonstration of the Raspberry Pi powered 'Etch-A-Snap' camera built by Martin Fitzpatrick that automatically draws (in 20 minutes to an hour) the image it detects and processes after its button is pushed. Keep going for the video, as well as one of the camera drawing in real time, but if you want to build one yourself Martin has step-by-step instructions (including downloadable scripts and code) on his website HERE. "Sexually?" Ha, that scale would never be so kind. Do you know what the scale said I weighed this morning? "What?" Nothing, it pretended its batteries were low so I'd get off. Man, if you can build an Etch-A-Sketch camera, what can't you build? I bet Martin has the skills and knowledge to get me to the moon. But in this case, the commands are sent to the stepper motors which spin the Etch A Sketch's upgraded knobs to move its drawing tip accordingly. The low-res image is then processed and converted to plotter commands, which is a type of printer that works similarly to an Etch A Sketch physically drawing out an image by moving a pen along X and Y coordinates. There was no reason to go overboard with the megapixels as every photo snapped is reduced to just 240 x 144-pixels in size, and then downgraded to a 1-bit color palette-black and white. Classic circle of life: Fitzpatrick built his Etch-A-Snap around a Raspberry Pi Zero upgraded with stepper motors, a custom 3D-printed frame and gearing to control the miniature Etch A Sketch display, and a basic digital camera on the back. This is a video demonstration of the Raspberry Pi powered 'Etch-A-Snap' camera built by Martin Fitzpatrick that automatically draws (in 20 minutes to an hour) the image it detects and processes after its button is pushed.